Review of Ancient Civilizations & World Religions

All the Ancient civilizations practiced what type of religion?

• Polytheism

• Christianity

• Monotheism

• Muslim

What was the mandate of Heaven?

• What the Chinese believed to be the way to get into heaven by being a good emporer

• The god given, divine right to rule of China's early kings and emperors

• Angels coming down from the Heavens to great the new emperor

• Going to heaven once you have died as the emperor

What was the writing system called in Ancient Egypt?

• Cunieform

• Indian

• Hieroglyphics

• Styroglyphics

What was the purpose of the Great Pyramids?

• house of the mummified bodies of Egyptians

• house treasures and surplus food

• house the mummified bodies of pharaohs

• were solid monuments (no interior) built for the gods

What was the role of the pharaoh in ancient Egypt?

• King and God of Egypt
• King of Egypt
• God of Egypt
• President of Egypt

What civilisation of Ancient Mesopotamia first built a ziggurat?

• Babylon

• Assyria

• Sumer

• Akkadia

What did a ziggurat look like?

• It was a tall tower with steps around the outside

• Like a pyramid with large steps or levels

• It looked like a giant square block

• It had a large dome with columns around the outside

Hammurabi's Code was a system of laws that helped

• bring equality to social classes.
• increase the strength of the military.
• maintain order and unity in the region.
• build irrigation throughout the region.

Which two rivers does Mesopotamia lie between?

• Tigris and Euphrates
• Euphrates and Tiber
• Yangtze and Huang He
• Tiber and Nile

The land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers (in modern day Iraq and Iran )

• Mesopotamia

• Cuneiform

• City-State