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David was the ______ king of Israel?
3rd
4th
2nd
1st
2
What people ruled Egypt before the New Kingdom?
The Hitties
The Hyksos
The Assyrians
The Babylonians
3
The Nile River's delta is in the shape of what?
square
triangle
diamond
circle
4
Who was the first female pharoh?
Hammurabi
Nebuchadnezzar
Zoroaster
Hatshepsut
5
What powerful secret did the Hittites try to guard?
the library of Nineveh
brick-making
the meaning of their alphabet
ironworking
6
Moses is the god of ____ commandments.
20
10
4
100
7
Monotheistic means you______
believe that all gods are your friends
don't believe in any gods
believe in one god
believe in many gods
8
What was the writing on the clay tablet called in Assyria and Sumer?
characters
alphabet
hieroglyphics
cuniform
9
What is the system of government that includes various jobs and levels of authority?
a bureaucracy
a democracy
an oligarchy
a theocracy
10
Who supervised the business of government in Egypt's Old kingdom?
the hyksos
the vizier
the necropolis
the pharoh
11
A law dealing with offences against people, such as robbery or murder is
penal code
criminal law
code of enforcement
civil law
12
Amenhotep IV devoted his life to the worship of a minor god and took the name
Hatsuposiris
Akhenaten
Amonanubis
Horushotep
13
When Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the great temple, where did many Jews go?
Egypt
Babylon
Judah
Europe
14
What discovery helped scholars to understand the meaning of hieroglyphs?
The Dead Sea scrolls
The Psalms
The Ten Commandments
The Rosetta Stone
15
What was the reason for Hammurabi's Code?
to help everyone know the law
to increase punishments for criminal offences
to establish the law
to solidify Hammurabi's power
16
How long did it take the Isralites to reach Canaan from Egypt?
1 year
40 years
5 years
10 years
17
What were among the few occupations closed to women?
priests and manufacturers
scribes and government jobs
textile and perfume makers
doctors and farm managers
18
A colony is a
united group of villages
territory settled and ruled by people from another land
settlement founded by people seeking freedom
self-ruled region in an empire
19
What was the single most important element allowing Egypt to become a unified state?
dynasties
the bureaucracy
a shared religion
the Nile
20
Why did the Israelites view themselves as God's "chosen people"?
because of his coventant with Abraham
because Jurusalem became Solomon's capital
because they observed the Sabbath
because they had strong ethics
21
Sumerian writing consisted of wedge-shaped marks that were called
cuneiform
pictographs
hieroglyphs
scribes
22
What numbering system have we retained for the Sumerians?
the decimal system
the 60-minute hour
the 7-day week
the 12-month year
23
What color represents royalty?
yellow
purple
pink
red
24
Mummification is the preservation of what?
berries and fruits
a culture
antiquities
dead bodies
25
Darius created economic links throughout his empire by setting up a
single Persian coinage
barter economy
code of laws
uniform alphabet
26
What is a waterfall called?
colony
codify
cataract
delta
27
Which Egyptian's tomb offered a great number of treasures to help scholars learn?
Tutankhamen's
Ramses ll's
Akhenaton's
Thutmose lll's
28
Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World might have been build by Nebuchadnezzar?
State of Zeus
Hanging Gardens
Temple of Artemis
Colossus of Rhodes
29
What was the name of the scrolls found in ancient Israel?
The Israel scrolls
The Fertile Cresent scrolls
The Dead Sea scrolls
The scrolls of Gilgamesh
30
Why does Israelites revolt in 922 B.C., splitting Israel in two?
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the great temple
David could not keep the warring tribes together
Cyrus the Great conquered northern Israel
Solomon's building projects had exhausted the people
31
Where did the Israelites record events and laws?
the Torah
the Dead Sea Scrolls
the Diaspora
the Covenant
32
Ra was that god of what?
the dead
words
wind
sun
33
What were Egyptian kings called?
czars
emperors
khans
pharaohs
34
Which region in the Fertile Crescent has a name that means "between two rivers"?
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Syria
Armenia
35
The first book of the Hebrew Bible is
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
Exodus
Genesis
36
Where is Nubia in relation to Egypt?
south of Egypt
west of Egypt
north of Egypt
east of Egypt
37
What was one of the things that distinguished the Middle Kingdom from the Old Kingdom?
corruption was less prevalent
the Nile flooded more regularly
Egyptian traders had greater contact with the Middle East
Nubia occupied Egypt
38
A hierarchy is a system of what?
ranking groups
writing
government
religious practice
39
Babylon had the world's first legal code of law. What was it called?
Code of Babylon
Code of Law
Code of Hammurabi
Code of Mesopotamia
40
Who were the first people to use coined money?
The Hitties
The Lydians
The Assyrians
The Babylonians
41
According to the ancient Egyptians, what happened to sinners after death?
they became animals in their next life
they lived in the underworld
they had to pass a test to win external life
they lived forever
42
What would you find in an Egyptian necropolis?
wheat and flax
pyramids
a palace
soldiers
43
What poem described a great flood that destroys the world?
A Mesopotamian Idyll
Ode to Uruk
The Balled og Kish
The Epic of Gilgamesh
44
How many religons did Abrham fond?
2
3
4
1
45
According to the Ancient Egyptians, who was the great lord of the gods?
Horus
Isis
Osiris
Amon-Re
46
The Israelites belived that god made a blinding agreement with Abraham called a(n)
psalm
judgement
covenent
ethic
47
Who led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt?
Solomon
Saul
Abraham
Moses
48
What did Egyptians rely on for information on the afterlife?
The Psalms
The Book of the Dead
The Dead Sea scrolls
The Rosetta Stone
49
How did Osiris' wife, Isis, resurrect him from death?
she reassembled the pieces of his body
she kissed him
she defeats his killer, Set, in battle
she fasted and prayed for 40 days and nights
50
Sumerian scribes wrote on what?
papyrus
clay tablets
Rosetta Stone
stone
