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1) Name of the famous "Female Pharaoh" who ruled Egypt in the 18th Dynasty?
HATSHEPSUT
2) Assyrian King who lost a large army to a plague during the reign of Hezekiah?
Sennacharib
3) Sumerians foretold the future by looking at what part of a sacrificed animal?
Liver
4) About when did the Neolithic Period Begin in the Fertile Crescent?
10,000BC
5) Which famous Akkadian king conquered the Sumerians in ca. 2350 B.C.?
Sargon I
6) The Egyptian pharaoh whose gold-filled tomb Howard Carter found in 1922 was ?
King Tutankhamun or King Tut
7) About when were the Great Pyramids built in Egypt?
2600 BC
8) What people invented the first true alphabet?
Canaanites/Phoenicians
9) The most important king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was?
Nebuchadnezzar II
10) The most important development in the Niolithic period was?
Domestication of plants and animals
11) Who Caused the end of the Hittite Empire in 1200 B.C.?
Invaded by the Coalition of Sea Peoples
12) The people of the ancient city of Carthage were?
Canaanites
13) According to the early date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?
Amenhotep II
14) According to the Late date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus?
Ramses II
15) In the Law Code of Hammurabi how was an adulterous woman to be executed?
Tied to the man and drowned
16) Canaanites of the Old Testament were called by what name by the Greeks?
Phoenicians - which means Phoenix
17) About when was Zoroaster Born?
628 B.C.
18) Which city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
19) What were satraps?
Provincial governor
20) The Egyptian king who first united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation in ca. 3100 B.C. and who also founded the First Dynasty in Egypt was?
Menes
21) The capital city of the Hittite Empire was?
Hattusha
22) The Kingdom of Urartu Known in the Old Testament as?
Ararat
23) The Indo-Aryan rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni worshiped several deities which were also worshiped by the Indo-Aryan people of?
India
24) Name of the Babylonian king who left his son Belshazzar to rule for him?
Nabonidus
25) A stela or stele is?
Tombstone dedicated to a god
26) Which Assyrian king carried the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel into captivity?
Sargon II ?
27) The ancient Babylonian Flood story is found in?
Epic of Gilgamesh
28) Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were?
Major cities in Indus River Civilization
29) Ziggurats were?
Temples
30)Which Jewish king is shown paying tribute to the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III on the Black Obelisk?
King Jehu
31) The first ancient people who minted coins were the?
Lydians
32) The style of writing invented by the ancient Egyptians is today called?
Hieroglyphs
33) What did Assyrian King Ashurbanipal do with the corpses of the Babylonians?
Cut off heads and form piles to count?
34)Which Pharaoh supposedly tried to establish a form of "monotheism" in Egypt?
Akhenaten
35) Which Persian king captured the city of Babylon in 539 B.C.?
Cyrus the Great
36) Which people were the first to invent writing?
Summarians
37) During the Old Kingdom most of the kings of Egypt were buried?
In Pyramids
38) The international language of both the Babylonian and Persian Empres was?
Aramaic?
39) In "Hammurabi's Law Code," the largest number of laws deal with?
Family Law, Social Class differences
40) What Persian king in 538 B.C. allowed the Jews to return to Israel?
Cyrus the Great
41) Which Hebrew leader left his home in Ur in Mesopotamia to migrate Palestine?
Abraham
42) The largest group of people in the Kingdom of Mitanni was?
Horites
43) The ancient Chaldeans are bettre known today as the?
Babylonians
44) Which Persian king added Egypt to the Persian Empire?
Cambyses
Apis (Egyptian Religion)
Sacred Bull
Osiris (Egyptian Religion)
god of dead, sun deity, green face
Cartouche (Egyptian Religion)
oval shaped inscription with the king’s name in it
Isis (Egyptian Religion)
Mother of Horus (goddess of sex, Osiris wife and sister)
Thoth (Egyptian Religion)
god of scribes and wisdom
Horus (Egyptian Religion)
Associated with Amon-Re (related to the Nile and to the sun)
Ankh (Egyptian Religion)
cross symbol of life
Aton (Egyptian Religion)
sun disk (worshiped by Akhenaton)
Maat (Egyptian Religion)
goddess of justice
Anubis (Egyptian Religion)
god of mummification (jackal head)
Marduk (Ancient Religions)
Babylonian king of the gods
Zend Avesta (Ancient Religions)
Persian holy book
Book of the Dead (Ancient Religions)
Egyptian holy book
Ishtar (Ancient Religions)
goddess of fertility for Babylonian (sex)
Baal Hadad (Ancient Religions)
Canaanite storm god
Yahweh (Ancient Religions)
Hebrew God
Siva or Shiva (Ancient Religions)
Hindu god worshipped by the Mitanni
Asherah (Ancient Religions)
Wife of El, Canaanites
Rig Veda (Ancient Religions)
Hindu holy book
Ahura Mazda (Ancient Religions)
“wise lord” good god of Zoroastrianism