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Chapter 02 Self-Assessment
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The Natufians:
Were semi-sedentary foragers.
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Abandoned the bodies of their dead to wild animals.
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Flourished during the Neolithic Age.
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Were renowned for their pottery.
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The transition from foraging to farming was completed during the:
Paleolithic Age.
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Mesolithic Age.
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Neolithic Age
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Chalcolithic Age.
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The first farmers from the Fertile Crescent settled in Mesopotamia, establishing the _________ culture of villages (6000-4000 BCE).
Phoenician
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Assyrian
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Philistine
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Ubaid
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The first "assemblies" in Mediterranean towns were:
gatherings of sharecroppers
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gatherings of influential elders
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gatherings of nomads
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gatherings of deities
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Nomads were known for their:
sedentary nature.
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cultivation of crops.
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herding of domesticated animals.
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wealthy lifestyle.
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Mesopotamian city-state?
It practices ethnic segregation.
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A number of its inhabitants are not farmers.
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It is ruled by a dominant landowner-priest, assisted by a personal entourage of armed men.
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It contains more than 5,000 inhabitants.
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The earliest Mesopotamian city-state was:
Ur
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Uruk
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Lagash
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Nippur
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Cuneiform writing was developed around:
1200 BCE.
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5000 BCE.
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2000 BCE.
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3450 BCE.
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The first unified territorial state or kingdom in Mesopotamia was:
Akkadia
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Babylonia
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Elam
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Persia
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of an empire?
Large in size
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Multiethnic
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Monoglot
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Multireligious
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Hammurabi was best known for:
composing the Dead Sea Scrolls
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his codification of Babylonian law
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his tolerant nature
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designing the Ark of the Covenant
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Which of the following does not describe hieroglyphic writing?
It was developed around 3500-3200 BCE.
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It was used exclusively for bureaucratic documents.
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It was limited to use in royal inscriptions.
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It used pictures to symbolize objects and syllables.
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"Proto-Indo-Europeans"
migrated from Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe.
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were terrified by the horses that had been domesticated by Mesopotamians.
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were primarily foragers.
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migrated to Indonesia and the remainder of Southeast Asia.
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Horses were first domesticated in:
Egypt.
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the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
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the Ural Mountains of Central Asia.
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Mesopotamia.
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The Bronze Age collapse was probably triggered by:
the collapse of Egypt's Old Kingdom.
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the rise of the Hittite empire.
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the unsustainability of chariot warfare.
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the invasions by Sea People.
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The Iron Age started around:
1500-1200 BCE.
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4000-2000 BCE.
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700-500 BCE.
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6000-4000 BCE.
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The following was not a major Phoenician city-state:
Byblos
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Sidon
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Amarna
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Tyre
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The final wave of Israelite deportations under the Neo-Babylonians was known as the _______, or "gola".
Babylonian Chronicles
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Babylonian Captivity
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Babylonian Talmud
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The Great Jewish Revolt
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During the middle of the second millennium BCE, the ______ culture arose in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Peleset
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Archaic
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Israelite
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Mycenaean
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A system of government in which most or all of the people elect representatives and in some cases decide on important issues themselves, is called a:
Theocracy
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Republic
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Democracy
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Oligarchy
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Among the earliest recorded writings on religious themes is:
the Aeneid
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the Epic of Gilgamesh
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the Iliad
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the Odyssey
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Among the best-known ancient texts on the applied science of medicine is:
the Kouros
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the Göbekli Tepe
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the Enuma Elish
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the Kahun
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