Ancient History Chapter 02

Which of the following cities is NOT a city found in Ancient Mesopotamia?

• Samaria

• Nineveh

• Ur

• Babylon

What was the name of the people who lived in the southern section of Mesopotamia?

• Acadians

• Sumerians

• Phoenicians

• Egyptians

Which word means "land between two rivers"?

• Mesopotamia

• Hippotamia

• Mesofluminibus

• Mesotheleoma

What do we call a tiered, pyramid-shaped structure that formed a part of a Sumerian temple?

• polytheism

• diffusion

• ziggurat

• zignego

Which two groups occupied he top two levels of the Sumerian social pyramid?

• kings & nobles

• priests & laborers

• merchants & soldiers

• king & priests

Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi?

• an able military leader

• a noted Mesopotamian lawgiver

• known as the father of cuneiform

• administrator of the vast Babylonian empire

What happened to a boy if he strikes his father, according to Hammurabi's Code?

• the boy would have his eyes plucked out.

• the boy gets his hand cut off

• the boy becomes the property of another master

• the boy must tend to the crops for a year

Which of the following contains only the names of Ancient Egyptian gods?

• Horus, Osiris, Isis

• Horus, Apollo, Zeus

• Osiris, Athena, Nike

• Isis, Reuben, Hades

In Greek the word hieros means "sacred" and gluphē means...

• writings.

• chariot.

• ruler.

• river.

What proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?

• The Alexandria Cipher

• The Cairo Stone

• The Behistun Rock

• The Rosetta Stone