Mesopotamia & Egypt

What was significant about Hammurabi's Code?

• only 10 laws

• first unified set of laws

• punishments did not distinguish between social classes

• started the first

Match the following

• Egyptians

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• Phoenicians

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• Sumerians

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The belief in one god is...

• polytheism

• monotheism

• theocracy

• daoism

What is the most significant accomplishment of the Phoenicians ?

• extensive building projects

• developed the alphabet

• elaborate rituals

• far reaching network of roads

What was the MOST important about the Rosetta Stone?

• provided the development of modern computer programs to learn languages

• allowed translation of hieroglyphics and increased understanding og Egyptian Culture

• first modern multi language translation of information

• it was written on papyrus and was later turned into stone providing info about egyptian gods.

This image best illustrates which of the following cultural processes that developed before 600 BC/BCE?

• The construction of buildings to produce and store written records

• The codification of laws in early structures for legal governance

• The use of urban planning to maintain and store a stable food supply

• The development of monumental structures for religious purposes

What major development led to the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia and other river valleys?

• writing

• agriculture

• speech

• fire

What is considered the 'Gift of the Nile'?

• The abundant variety of fish and aquatic life

• The papyrus that was used as paper

• The annual flooding and silt left that fertilized fields

• The massive destruction that allowed rebuilding of new homes

The first know Egyptian pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt was

• Xerxes I

• Tutankhamen

• Hippodamian

• Menes

A theocracy, as in ancient Egypt, is defined as

• Polytheistic beliefs

• Monotheistic beliefs

• A nation that is ruled by religious leaders

• A nation that has separation of religious beliefs