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World Hist: Chapter 2: Western Asia & Europe
World Hist: Chapter 2: Western Asia & Europe
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1
YHWH or Yahweh was the God of what monotheistic religion?
Bhudism
Judaism
Hindusim
Polytheism
2
Which civilization is first believed to use a writing system?
Vikings
Chaldeans
Assyrians
Sumerians
3
First civilizations usually developed around which geographic feature?
Rivers
Mountains
Oceans
Lakes
4
Who were the
first
to use a phonetic alphabet?
Americans!!!!
Greeks
Romans
Phoenicians
5
Name this type of mountain-like temple built in Mesopotamia.
Synagogue
Ziggurat
Mosque
Sphynx
6
Which is
not true
about Indo-Europeans?
They scattered around 2,000 B.C. from near the Black Sea
They brought on the Iron Age
They invented cuneiform
The parent language to German, Sanskrit, Greek & Latin
7
What exactly is lower Egypt?
a barren waste-land on the world's longest river
A delta to the world's longest river
a cataract on the world's longest river
up-river on the world's longest river
8
Who took out the Persians in 330 BC?
Hammurabi
Alexander the Great
King Soloman
Leonidas
9
"Land between two rivers"
Messeduphair
Metaphysics
Mesoamerica
Mesopotamia
10
The Egyptians & Hittites were destroyed by the ______, allowing the Israelites to prosper.
Minoans
Mysterious Sea People
Trojans
Ghengis Khan
11
Ancient Persians practiced which religion?
Shintoism
Zoroasterianism
Islam
Christianity
12
Hyksos, Nubians, Macedonians, Libyans & Romans all took turns invading which ancient people?
Chinese
Egyptians
Sumerians
Persians
13
Define "Pastoral Nomads"
people who followed their domesticated herds.
Neanderthals
the artist formerly known as "Prince"
hunter-gatherers
14
Name the Empire on the Map
Egypt
Assyrian
Isreal
Persia
15
Who dated Cleopatra?
Marc Antony
Octavian AKA Augustus
Julius Caesar
Brad Pitt