Ancient Near East

What is one of the major enduring legacies of the Hebrews?

• The Bible

• Monotheism

• Polythesism

• Writing

During which ancient Egyptian time period were the Great Pyramids at Giza built?

• New Kingdom

• Middle Kingdom

• Old Kingdom

• Hellenistic Egypt

Which civilization created a phonetic alphabet later adapted by the Greeks?

• Sumerians

• Babylonians

• Assyrians

• Phoenicians

Which group "invaded" Egypt during the second Intermediate period.

• Assyrians

• Hittities

• Hyksos

• Persians

Which was not a cause of the First Intermediate period.

• Invasion from the Hyksos

• Provincial governors amassing power of their own

• Less frequent and smaller floods of the Nile

• The Long reign of Pharaoh Pepi II which denied the position to his sons and grandsons creating animosity

Pharaoh Akhenaten was best known for

• Creating a peace treaty with the Hittite Empire

• Establishing the temples of Karnak

• Building the the pyramids at Giza

• Founding a new (and failed) religious cult of the sun god in the New Kingdom in order to gain more power

Which Hebrew King moved the capital to Jerusalem?

• Moses

• Abraham

• Saul

• David

The Southern Hebrew Kingdom was known as

• Israel

• Palestine

• Judah

• Ninevah

Pyramid-shaped temples that were the center of Sumerian worship.

• ziggurats

• Parthenon

• tabernacles

• pyramids at Giza

He unified Upper and Lower Egypt.

• Sargon

• Narmer

• Naram-Sin

• Hammurabi