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Chapter 2 Quiz
Agrarian–Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500–600 BCE
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The Younger Dryas caused the _____________ to return to a fully migratory life of foraging.
Natufians
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Egyptians
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Proto-Indo-Europeans
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Hittites
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The Neolithic Age is marked by the _____.
emergence of foraging.
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invention of stone tools.
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invention of agriculture.
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production of iron.
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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 Mesopotamian towns were:
gatherings of sharecroppers
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gatherings of influential persons
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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 animals
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wealthy lifestyle
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Which of the following is
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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.
correct
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2000 BCE.
correct
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3450 BCE
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The first unified territorial state or kingdom in Mesopotamia was:
Akkad
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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?
Multilinguistic
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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
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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.
correct
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"Proto-Indo-Europeans":
migrated from Central Asia to the Middle East and western Europe.
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were terrified by the horses that had been domesticated by Mesopotamians.
correct
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were primarily foragers.
correct
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migrated to Indonesia and the remainder of Southeast Asia.
correct
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Horses were first domesticated in:
Egypt
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the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
correct
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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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David established an Israelite kingdom after defeating the __________.
Assyrians
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Philistines
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Egyptians
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Phoenicians
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incorrect
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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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The image depicts hieroglyphs found at Luxor, Egypt. What was this writing system limited to?
It was used only for royal inscriptions.
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incorrect
It was used only to record commercial transactions.
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It was used to record foundational myths.
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It was used to mark provincial boundaries in Egypt.
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This wall painting depicts King Akhenaten with his family. What change in Egyptian religion happened during his reign?
He forced the population to adopt the Hebrew religion.
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He replaced older religious practices with the Sun religion.
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He eliminated the worship of one god and adopted polytheism.
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He replaced all priests in temples with priestesses.
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The map above shows where early farming sites and settlements were located in the Middle East and Mediterranean world. What name is often used for the region where agriculture first developed?
Mesopotamia
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Anatolia
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The Fayyum Depression
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The Fertile Crescent
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