Question 1

What was the first great Sumerian city?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lagash
B)   Akkad
C)   Ur
D)   Uruk
E)   Babylon

Question 2

In the earliest form of writing, drawings represented items in inventories.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In what way were the Assyrians different from other ancient Near Eastern powers?

Accepted Answer

A)   Assyrian soldiers used lighter arms.
B)   The Assyrians used iron weapons.
C)   Assyrians received tribute in the commodity the conquered area produced well.
D)   The Assyrians wrote poems praising their king.
E)   The Assyrians gathered a council of elders to check royal power.

Question 4

The Odyssey's setting is closest to which civilization?

Accepted Answer

A)   Minoan
B)   Mycenaean
C)   Dark Age Greece
D)   Archaic Greece
E)   Phoenician

Question 5

Which civilization had the most gender equality?

Accepted Answer

A)   Sumerian
B)   Egyptian
C)   Jewish
D)   Minoan
E)   Archaic Greek

Question 6

The use of iron led to advances in what field?

Accepted Answer

A)   pottery
B)   warfare
C)   agriculture
D)   textiles
E)   trade

Question 7

Slaves constructed most city and religious structures in early Sumerian city-states.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following Egyptian gods oversaw the judgement of the dead?

Accepted Answer

A)   Re
B)   Horus
C)   Anubis
D)   Isis
E)   Osiris

Question 9

How did Greeks primarily identify themselves?

Accepted Answer

A)   They identified themselves by their social class.
B)   They identified themselves as Greek.
C)   They identified themselves by their city-state.
D)   They identified themselves by their gender.
E)   They identified themselves by their occupation.

Question 10

What historical influences made Jewish culture and religion different from other civilizations that existed in the same period and region?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

Permanent settlements appeared in the ancient Near East in the Mesolithic period.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What was the biggest difference between Dark Age Greece and later Greek city-states?

Accepted Answer

A)   City-states traded less than Dark Age Greece.
B)   Warfare with and raiding of other communities did not occur in the Dark Age.
C)   The city-states used iron tools and weapons.
D)   During the city-state period, the importance of powerful families increased.
E)   Formal institutions of government, such as legislative bodies, grew during the city-state period.

Question 13

In which of the following ways was Egyptian writing like Mesopotamian writing?

Accepted Answer

A)   Both were distinct forms of writing.
B)   Both were usually learned only by writing professionals, not the population in general.
C)   Both were written by pressing a stylus into wet clay.
D)   Both consisted only of symbols representing parts of words.
E)   Both were used primarily for inscription on monuments.

Question 14

Which of the following expresses a difference between Egyptian and Near Eastern civilization between about 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE?

Accepted Answer

A)   the use of writing by a restricted class of people
B)   political and cultural unity
C)   rule by a monarch
D)   the use of irrigation to improve agricultural production
E)   the use of religion to justify political power

Question 15

The Israelites increased their focus on observation of religious law after what event?

Accepted Answer

A)   the establishment of the kingdom of Judah
B)   the construction of the temple in Jerusalem
C)   the destruction of the kingdom of Israel and the forced migration of its inhabitants by the Assyrians
D)   the destruction of the kingdom of Judah
E)   the return of the Jewish people from Babylon during the reign of Cyrus the Great

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