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Ancient Eastern Civilizations SSWH1
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Review of SSWH1 for Unit 1 Test
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The Egyptian people believed pharaoh was a god-king, he was the leader of a government called:
An Oligarchy
A Theocracy
A Democracy
A Dictatorship
2
What new technology did the Hittites bring to Mesopotamian society?
A writing system
Land irrigation
Iron working
A code of laws
3
In Judaism, the religion of the Hebrews, prophets:
predicted the future by divination
chose the Hebrews as God's people
did very little
became the moral conscience of the Hebrews
4
The central feature of the beginnings of civilization was the presence of:
cities along rivers
taxation
temples
social classes
5
This civilization wrote the first medical textbooks and first used the basic ideas of math:
Egyptians
Phoenicians
Babylonians
Sumerians
6
Polytheism in the ancient world was a way to:
scare children into behaving
make promises for an afterlife
explain the forces of nature
introduce the idea of monotheism
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The Persian who developed a vast empire by conquering the Middle East was:
The pharaoh Ramses II
Cyrus the Great
The prophet Zoroaster
Alexander the Great
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The Phoenicians were the first people to develop a(n):
alphabet
color-fast black dye
trade network
vast empire
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This civilization was known as the "carriers of civilization":
Phoenician
Chinese
Egyptian
Mesopotamian
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Zoroastrianism was a monotheistic faith that taught:
God (Ahura-Mazda) would win a great battle against evil
Jesus would come as the savior of the world
The Hebrew prophets were the moral conscience of the people
All material things were evil and pulled humans to Satan
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The greatest accomplishment of the Babylonian emperor Hammurabi was:
The conquest of India
The laws recorded in his code
A new alphabetic system
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The governments of the Sumerian cities were theocracies, or a government in which:
the king was a god
there was no priesthood involved
kings were called theons
the religious leaders run the government