C-2 Ancient Middle East

Ancient Middle East

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Sargon

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Assyria

• Akkad

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Glassmaking and first lock and key.

• Assyrians

• Sumerians

• Babylonians

• Akkadians

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Chief god Marduk

• Hittites

• Assyrians

• Sumerians

• Babylonians

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Unified under Darius I

• Akkad

• Persia

• Hittites

• Neo-Babylonians

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First empire.

• Sumer

• Assyrians

• Akkad

• Hittites

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Hanging Gardens

• Babylonians

• Sumer

• Akkad

• Neo-Babylonians

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Zoroaster

• Persians

• Sumerians

• Hittites

• Akkadians

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Royal Roads and first mail system.

• Akkad

• Persia

• Assyria

• Babylonians

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When did the Hittite Empire collapse?

• 1000 B.C.

• 1200 B.C.

• 1400 B.C.

• 1600 B.C.

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3300 B.C.

• Sumer

• Akkad

• Hittites

• Babylon

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"an eye for an eye and a life for a life"

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Akkad

• Assyria

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Spread terror for 500 years.

• Akkad

• Hittites

• Assyrians

• Persians

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Magnificent city partially rebuilt by Saddam Hussein.

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Nineveh

• Nippur

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Cyrus the Great

• Persian

• Sumerian

• Akkadian

• Assyrian

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Which of the following was a Sumerian innovation that later civilizations built on?

• system of weights and measures

• cuneiform

• gunpowder

• code of law

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Library at Nineveh.

• Egypt

• Persia

• Babylon

• Assyria

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Nebuchadnezzar.

• Sumerian

• Neo-Babylonian

• Babylonian

• Persian

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Chief god Assur.

• Sumer

• Assyria

• Babylon

• Persia

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Learned to extract iron from ore.

• Hittites

• Assyrians

• Persians

• Egyptians

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Gave Hammurabi the code of laws.

• Marduk

• Baal

• Darius

• Sargon

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Zoroaster spread the idea of...

• rule of law

• irrigation

• mummification

• heaven and hell and judgement day

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Corruption and rebellion was common during this Egyptian kingdom...

• New

• Middle

• Old

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This ancient city had a moat and nine gates.

• Jericho

• Ur

• Nineveh

• Babylon

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Added the vowels to the Phoenician alphabet.

• Persians

• Greeks

• Romans

• Assyrians

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The oldest-known peace treaty was between Egypt and the...

• Hittites

• Nubians

• Assyrians

• Hyksos

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Egypt became the largest in size during this pharoah...

• Ramses II

• Thutmose III

• Tut

• Hatshepsut

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Order of Jewish kings.

• Solomon/Saul/David

• David/Solomon/Saul

• David/Saul/Solomon

• Saul/David/Solomon

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Nineveh was the capital of...

• Akkad

• Persia

• Assyria

• Hattusa

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Freed the Jewish slaves from Babylon.

• Hammurabi

• Darius

• Xerxes

• Cyrus the Great

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City of Abraham

• Uruk

• Ur

• Eridu

• Nippur

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Pushed Nubians back to Nubia using iron weapons in 650 B.C.

• Akkadians

• Assyrians

• Hittites

• Kushites

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How long did the Jews wander during the Exodus?

• 1o years

• 20 years

• 30 years

• 40 years

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New Kingdom pharoahs were buried here...

• Valley of the Kings

• Karnak

• Thebes

• Giza

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Phoenicians were known for all of these EXCEPT...

• glass

• colonizing

• purple dye

• iron

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Who led the Israelits out of bondage?

• Solomon

• Moses

• Abraham

• David

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Who was given the Ten Commandments?

• Isaiah

• Moses

• David

• Abraham

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Egyptian artists portrayed pharaohs as...

• larger than other human figures

• warriors on horseback

• winged-warrior gods

• sky gods

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Why was iron important in the ancient world?

• it was scarce

• it was more expensive

• it made harder/sharper weapons

• it was used to make coins

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What new war technolgy did the Hyksos bring to Egypt?

• bronze weapons

• bows and arrows

• horse-drawn war chariots

• body armor

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Who handled the bureaucracy (government matters), in the Old Kingdom?

• pharaoh

• vizier

• satrap

• chief scribe

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Which of the following would be in the civil law section of Hammurabi's Code?

• assault

• murder

• divorce

• robbery

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Who was married to Akhenaton?

• Hatshepsut

• Bathsheba

• Cleopatra

• Nefertiti

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The pharaohs received the right to rule from this god...

• Amon-Re

• Isis

• Osiris

• Aton

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Later civilizations developed basic algebra and geometry by building on the number system first created by the...

• Babylonians

• Hittites

• Sumerians

• Assyrians

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Who is the ancient Egyptian god described in the following passage?. . . he was both a god of fertility and the embodiment of the dead and resurrected king.

• Amon-Re

• Re

• Isis

• Osiris

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The term diaspora is most directly linked to what aspect of Judaism?

• the spread of Judaism

• monotheism

• ethics

• Jewish law

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What is one way that Darius united the Persian empire?

• He expanded his empire through peaceful means rather than conquest.

• He personally oversaw every branch of the Persian government.

• He standardized coinage and other aspects of the Persian economy.

• He forced conquered people to adopt Persian customs and religion.

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Which of the following occurred during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom?

• Thutmose III expanded Egypt’s borders.

• Hyksos invaders occupied the Nile delta.

• The Great Pyramids were built at Giza.

• The Greeks took control of Egypt.

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Darius improved economic life in the Persian empire by

• switching from a traditional to a barter economy.

• switching from a barter to a traditional economy.

• encouraging the development of a money economy.

• encouraging a barter economy.