Anthropologists separate early human cultures by their:
Writing
Clothing
Tools
Food
The Paleolithic Age is characterized by:
Domestication of animals
The beginning of agriculture
A hunting and gathering existence
The invention of writing
In the Paleolithic Age's division of labor by gender, it was probably women who were responsible for:
Gathering of wild grains and berries
Making tools
Hunting and Fishing
Protecting the family with their war skills
The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by:
The development of urban based civilizations
The domestication of animals and the start of agriculture
Dependence on hunting and gathering techniques
The manufacture and use of iron tools
The first metal developed to replace stone in the making of tools was:
Bronze
Iron
Aluminum
Tin
The development of writing first occurred during the:
Paleolithic Age
Bronze Age
Neolithic Age
Iron Age
The Early Dynastic Period of Sumerian city states occurred in:
ca. 3500 B.C.E.
ca. 2800-2370 B.C.E.
ca. 2000-1800 B.C.E.
ca. 1550 B.C.E.
Who developed the form of writing called Cuneiform?
The Assyrians
The Egyptians
The Nubians
The Sumerians
Which group was the first to unify much of Mesopotamia and create a true empire?
The Akkadians
The Eridu
Whose name and reputation was identified with being the first great conqueror in history?
Babylon
Naram-Sin
Sargon
Kish
The Mesopotamians constructed lofty towers with several stages or levels, called:
Pyramids
Ziggurats
Basilicas
Temples
According to the Code of Hammurabi, women in Babylonian society:
Were primarily equal to men legally
Were less equal to men legally
Had more rights than men
Had no rights at all
In the Mesopotamian Religion, gods:
Lived in temples that were run like houses
Did not resemble humans in their appearance or actions
Represented ideas such as evil, hope, and envy
All options
Slavery in Mesopotamia took the forms of:
Debt Slavery and Labor Slavery
Chattel Slavery and Labor Slavery
Chattel Slavery and Debt Slavery
Debt Slavery, labor slavery, and Chattel Slavery
Egypt's "black land" was:
The dark fertile fields along the Nile
The highlands
Found only in the south
Another term for Lower Egypt
When the old Kingdom of Egypt collapsed:
Egypt immediately entered a period of great pyramid constuction
It was a result of the invading Hyksos
It occurred due to a drought
Egypt entered the 1st Intermediate Period which was unstable and disordered
The New Kingdom was different from earlier periods of Egyptian history because:
Egypt was ruled by foreign born Pharoahs
Egypt shrank in size and was limited to mainly Upper Egypt
Egyptian rulers pursued foreign expansion and created a large empire through war
Egyptians abandoned their old gods for new ones from Greece
In ancient Egypt, Maat was:
The legendary creator god who had blessed Egypt
The Pharoah's chief advisor
The highest virtue combining the ideas of truth, justice, and order
The name for all areas outside of Egypt
Slaves in Ancient Egypt:
Were always taken from the poor classes within Egyptian society
Could hope to be accepted into the general population if freed
Performed society's household labors only
All of the above
The Hittites:
Were innovators and helped bridge culture
Were isolated from other peoples
Lacked strong central government
Were pacifists
The Assyrians were famous for their:
Fierce and well disciplined military
Delicate bronze and copper artwork
Mathematical and astronomical skills
Limitations on the power of their kings
The Neolithic Revolution shows dramatic changes in settlement, etc. ❌
The Bronze Age ❌
The Old Kingdom of Egypt ❌
The Reign of Sargon who unified all of Mesopotamia as conqueror ❌
The Reign of Hammurabi who created the first code of laws ❌
The New Kingdom in Egypt (❌)
The Span of the Hittite Empire ❌
The Second Assyrian Empire conquers Egypt ❌
Ethical Monotheism was pioneered by the:
Babylonians
Egyptians
Israelites
Chinese
Called the "Father of the Faithful," many consider him to be the symbolic founder of three of the world's largest religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:
Moses
Mohammad
Socrates
Abraham
The HEBREWS saw their God as:
The only god in existence
The same god that the Mesopotamians call Marduk
The chosen diety among many gods who might be worshipped
The same God that the Egyptians called Aten
For the Hebrew's the shift to the exclusive worship of a single god occurred:
With Abraham's journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan
During the Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses
When Solomon built the great temple in Jerusalem
With the start of the teachings of Jesus
The Torah is:
The primary religious text for the Persians
The code of ethics among Ionian Greeks
God's holy law as part of Hebrew Scripture
Spartan training committing soldiers to the polis
The first Israelite prophets contributed to allow the following except:
The campaign to turn people against false gods and toward Yaweh
The purification of Jewish faith by demanding righteousness of its followers
The enslavement by Jews in Egypt before Moses led them to freedom
The religious notion of Israelite national success by following their god's "plan"
The Span of the Neo-Babylonian Empire ❌
The defeat of the Egyptians by the Roman Emperor Octavian ❌
The marks the rise of metal tools, weapons, and Mesopotamia.
was declared the creator god by Amunhotep IV to gain power
In , people were owned as property and had few if any rights
The "Naturally" aided Mesopotamia to survive and flourish
was chance observations or rituals to find your destiny that played a bit role in Mesopotamian religion as it revealed a person's destiny.
was the pharaoh that created the largest pyramid ever
The was the desert cliffs and valleys bordering the Nile River
was the Sumerian mathematical system based on the number 60.
declared himself a god and was a powerful Akkadian ruler
was the rare freeing of slaves in Egypt: they could rejoin society.
The pharaohs were considered god kings during the
was the First Neolithic town with a massive stone wall for protection.
was large city in Babylonia with history's first kings
During the , the pharaohs changed and became more "in touch" with their people.
was the Northern ecological zone of Mesopotamia
According to the Jewish religion, how should man best serve God?
Through rituals and prayer
Through heroic deeds
Through ethical responsibility following God's divine plan
Through fasting and other forms of self discipline or denial
The so called ten lost tribes originally lived in:
Judah
Turkey
Jerusalem
Israel
The Babylonian captivity began on this date:
961 BCE
722 BCE
586 BCE
539 BCE
The reign of King Solomon who built the great temple in Jerusalem lasted from:
1000-961 BCE
987-924 BCE
961-922 BCE
722-685 BCE
In the end, the Messiah would do what in the Jewish faith:
Convert all polytheists to monotheism
Save sinners from the Day of Judgment
Would re-instruct the Jews in the lessons of God's divine plan
Would establish the kingdom of God on earth
Some primary characteristics of Greek society that CONNECTED them to other civilizations included:
Magic, incantation, and polytheistic divinity in their lives and laws
Belief in the need for a strong, authoritarian government
Concern with personal salvation through supernatural union with God.
Raising questions concerning the nature of the world around them
Thales is regarded as the first Greek philosopher because he...
Demonstrated the existence of gods scientifically
Compared Egyptian and Mesopotamian religions with those of Greece
Explained the origins of the world in naturalistic terms
Argued the importance of ethical behavior
Protagoras of Abdera utilized a naturalistic philosophy of the divine by stating:
The size and beauty of nature meant gods existed and created the world
He couldn't agree or disagree with he existence of gods because he had no real proof either way
Through philosophy man can become close to the divine by examining his own actions
There was a god for each of the elements of the world
The first people to recognize Greek beliefs were not universally accepted were:
The Sophists
The Athenians
The Ionians
The Macedonians
The atomists believed the world was made of "atoms" and these two men founded the school:
Leucippus of Colophon and Heraclitus of Ephesus
Parmenides of Elea and his pupil Zeno
Anaximander and Democritus of Athens
Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera
The Cynics would MOST LIKELY believe:
In material progress
The concept of the polis
That a person's character was a matter of knowledge gained through free experience
None of these
The Sophists valued which following of the techniques and were paid to teach them:
Observation, Dialectic, Analysis
Rhetoric, Argumentation, Calculation
Dialectic, Argumentation, Rhetoric
Observation, Calculation, Analysis
The polis AKA Greek city state, provided the following for it's citizens:
Political Organization
Cultural characteristics like religion and common practices
Theoretical belief that they all came from common ancestry
All of these
Which of the following philosophers wanted people to seek "the greatest improvement of the soul?
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
A is a solemn and formal pledge between 2 or more parties
believed in an undefined and unlimited element that the world emerged from
explained history strictly through human nature and chance
was a Sophist who believed the gods were invented by "clever men" to control others
lived from 429-347 BCE
looked to diagnose and cure disease without aid from the supernatural
An was a body of true and unchanging wisdom
lived from 469-399 BCE
freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity and let them go home
was the guiding principle of the world meaning "word, language, speech, and reason."
thought that reality was four basic elements shaped by Love and Strife
abandoned the idea of the polis completely
The was the male leader of a group or family
The destroyed Israel and scattered the Israelites in 722 BCE
