Chapter 02 Self-Assessment

* not completed

. The Natufians:

Were semi-sedentary foragers. correct incorrect

Abandoned the bodies of their dead to wild animals. correct incorrect

Flourished during the Neolithic Age. correct incorrect

Were renowned for their pottery. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The transition from foraging to farming was completed during the:

Paleolithic Age. correct incorrect

Mesolithic Age. correct incorrect

Neolithic Age correct incorrect

Chalcolithic Age. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The first farmers from the Fertile Crescent settled in Mesopotamia, establishing the _________ culture of villages (6000-4000 BCE).

Phoenician correct incorrect

Assyrian correct incorrect

Philistine correct incorrect

Ubaid correct incorrect

* not completed

. The first "assemblies" in Mediterranean towns were:

gatherings of sharecroppers correct incorrect

gatherings of influential elders correct incorrect

gatherings of nomads correct incorrect

gatherings of deities correct incorrect

* not completed

. Nomads were known for their:

sedentary nature. correct incorrect

cultivation of crops. correct incorrect

herding of domesticated animals. correct incorrect

wealthy lifestyle. correct incorrect

* not completed

. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Mesopotamian city-state?

It practices ethnic segregation. correct incorrect

A number of its inhabitants are not farmers. correct incorrect

It is ruled by a dominant landowner-priest, assisted by a personal entourage of armed men. correct incorrect

It contains more than 5,000 inhabitants. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The earliest Mesopotamian city-state was:

Ur correct incorrect

Uruk correct incorrect

Lagash correct incorrect

Nippur correct incorrect

* not completed

. Cuneiform writing was developed around:

1200 BCE. correct incorrect

5000 BCE. correct incorrect

2000 BCE. correct incorrect

3450 BCE. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The first unified territorial state or kingdom in Mesopotamia was:

Akkadia correct incorrect

Babylonia correct incorrect

Elam correct incorrect

Persia correct incorrect

* not completed

. Which of the following is not a characteristic of an empire?

Large in size correct incorrect

Multiethnic correct incorrect

Monoglot correct incorrect

Multireligious correct incorrect

* not completed

. Hammurabi was best known for:

composing the Dead Sea Scrolls correct incorrect

his codification of Babylonian law correct incorrect

his tolerant nature correct incorrect

designing the Ark of the Covenant correct incorrect

* not completed

. Which of the following does not describe hieroglyphic writing?

It was developed around 3500-3200 BCE. correct incorrect

It was used exclusively for bureaucratic documents. correct incorrect

It was limited to use in royal inscriptions. correct incorrect

It used pictures to symbolize objects and syllables. correct incorrect

* not completed

. "Proto-Indo-Europeans"

migrated from Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe. correct incorrect

were terrified by the horses that had been domesticated by Mesopotamians. correct incorrect

were primarily foragers. correct incorrect

migrated to Indonesia and the remainder of Southeast Asia. correct incorrect

* not completed

. Horses were first domesticated in:

Egypt. correct incorrect

the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. correct incorrect

the Ural Mountains of Central Asia. correct incorrect

Mesopotamia. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The Bronze Age collapse was probably triggered by:

the collapse of Egypt's Old Kingdom. correct incorrect

the rise of the Hittite empire. correct incorrect

the unsustainability of chariot warfare. correct incorrect

the invasions by Sea People. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The Iron Age started around:

1500-1200 BCE. correct incorrect

4000-2000 BCE. correct incorrect

700-500 BCE. correct incorrect

6000-4000 BCE. correct incorrect

* not completed

. The following was not a major Phoenician city-state:

Byblos correct incorrect

Sidon correct incorrect

Amarna correct incorrect

Tyre correct incorrect

* not completed

. The final wave of Israelite deportations under the Neo-Babylonians was known as the _______, or "gola".

Babylonian Chronicles correct incorrect

Babylonian Captivity correct incorrect

Babylonian Talmud correct incorrect

The Great Jewish Revolt correct incorrect

* not completed

. During the middle of the second millennium BCE, the ______ culture arose in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Peleset correct incorrect

Archaic correct incorrect

Israelite correct incorrect

Mycenaean correct incorrect

* not completed

. 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 correct incorrect

Republic correct incorrect

Democracy correct incorrect

Oligarchy correct incorrect

* not completed

. Among the earliest recorded writings on religious themes is:

the Aeneid correct incorrect

the Epic of Gilgamesh correct incorrect

the Iliad correct incorrect

the Odyssey correct incorrect

* not completed

. Among the best-known ancient texts on the applied science of medicine is:

the Kouros correct incorrect

the Göbekli Tepe correct incorrect

the Enuma Elish correct incorrect

the Kahun correct incorrect