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20 Cards in this Set
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The change in the nature of daily life, from hunter and gatherer to farmer and herder, first occurred in ________.
a. Africa b. Mesopotamia c. Europe d. Asia |
Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia is known as the ________.
a. Pearl Crescent b. River Crescent c. Delta Crescent d. Fertile Crescent |
Fertile Crescent
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The ________ ruled the northern Mesopotamian Empire during the ninth through seventh centuries BCE.
a. Sumerians b. Sasanians c. Akkadians d. Assyrians |
Assyrians
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What site did Leonard Woolley excavate in the 1920s in southern Mesopotamia?
a. Ziggurat of Ur b. Royal Palace at Nineveh c. Royal Cemetery at Ur d. Royal Cemetery at Giza |
Royal Cemetery at Ur
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The ________ are credited with developing the first known writing system.
a. Babylonians b. Assyrians c. Elamites d. Sumerians |
Sumerians
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The most famous Sumerian work of literature is the ________.
a. Odyssey b. Tale of Urnanshe c. Illiad d. Tale of Gilgamesh |
Tale of Gilgamesh
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In Sumerian cities the ________ formed the nucleus of the city.
a. market b. temple c. palace d. treasury |
temple
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The temples of Sumer were placed on high platforms or ________.
a. daises b. towers c. ziggurats d. pyramids |
ziggurats
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What is the theme of the Stele of the Vultures?
a. prayer b. warfare c. trade d. royal contract |
warfare
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The earliest known name of an author is ________.
a. Nanna b. Sargon c. Enheduanna d. Gudea |
Enheduanna
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Hammurabi is most famous for his ________.
a. diplomacy b. palaces c. oratory d. law code |
law code
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What is bitumen?
a. asphaltlike substance b. alabasterlike substance c. plantlike substance d. marblelike substance |
asphaltlike substance
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Around 1595 BCE Babylon was conquered and sacked by the ________.
a. Assyrians b. Hittites c. Sumerians d. Akkadians |
Hittites
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The Assyrian ________, a winged, man-headed bull, served to ward off the king's enemies.
a. stylus b. stele c. lamassu d. lyre |
lamassu
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The most important source of knowledge about Persian architecture is the palace at ________.
a. Ctesiphon b. Bishapur c. Persepolis d. Babylon |
Persepolis
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Cyrus of Persia, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, captured ________ in the sixth century B. C.
a. Persepolis b. Ctesiphon c. Babylon d. Bishapur |
Babylon
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Alexander the Great's general Seleucus founded his dynasty in which of the following areas?
a. Assyria b. Persia c. Sumer d. Babylon |
Persia
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In the third century CE, the Sasanians rose to power to challenge the power of ________.
a. Rome b. Athens c. Egypt d. Persepolis |
Rome
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Shapur I erected a great palace at ________, the capital of the Sasanian empire.
a. Babylon b. Bishapur c. Ctesiphon d. Persepolis |
Ctesiphon
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Shapur I captured the Roman emperor ________ near Edessa (in modern Turkey).
a. Constantine b. Julius Caesar c. Valerian d. Caesar Augustus |
Valerian
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