2022-23 Final Draft Study Guide Fall

Study Guide #1 Fall 2022 Final Draft Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Primary sources include all the following except ___________. a. artifacts c. textbooks b. written records d. tradition ____ 2. What is the term for man-made items used as sources to study history? a. tradition c. secondary sources b. artifacts d. objects ____ 3. Legends, religious beliefs, and social customs are examples of a. artifacts. c. information. b. tradition. d. secondary sources. ____ 4. What is the most important type of primary source? a. tradition c. architecture b. artifacts d. written records ____ 5. Which of the following is not one of the three steps the historian goes through to compile his record? a. historical interpretation c. historical synthesis b. collection of historical resources d. evaluation of historical resources ____ 6. What is the name of the command for man to control the earth by exercising dominion over it? a. Right of Domain c. Creation Mandate b. prehistory d. consequence of sin ____ 7. What is the division of labor that is part of every city? a. civilization c. culture b. organization d. specialization ____ 8. Who committed the first murder? a. Cain c. Seth b. Abel d. Lamech ____ 9. Whose efforts did God use to save the human race from the Flood? a. Lamech’s c. Seth’s b. Abraham’s d. Noah’s ____ 10. What term denotes the tendency for humans to love themselves supremely and not to love God or their fellow humans as they should?

a. divine providence c. twisted affections b. specialization d. organization ____ 11. What two rivers enclose Mesopotamia? a. Mississippi and Missouri c. Amazon and Orinoco b. Jordan and Nile d. Tigris and Euphrates ____ 12. What is the earliest known form of writing? a. hieroglyphics c. cuneiform b. papyrus d. cave drawings ____ 13. What term means the worship of many gods? a. multitheism c. pantheism b. monotheism d. polytheism ____ 14. The Epic of Gilgamesh gives an account of what biblical event? a. Creation c. Egyptian bondage b. the Flood d. temple restoration ____ 15. The first people known to have a solar calendar were the a. Amorites. c. Persians. b. Egyptians. d. Sumerians. ____ 16. What so-called science involves predicting the future based on the positions of celestial objects? a. astrology c. cartography b. astronomy d. oceanography ____ 17. What geographic factor contributed to the unity of Egypt? a. the delta c. the Nile b. the desert d. the Red Sea ____ 18. Which period of Egyptian history is known as “The Age of the Empire”? a. Old Kingdom c. Intermediate Period b. Middle Kingdom d. New Kingdom ____ 19. The great female ruler of Egypt was a. Amenhotep II. c. Thutmose III. b. Hatshepsut. d. Rameses II. ____ 20. What group of people was favored in Egyptian society but not in many of the other ancient civilizations? a. slaves c. children b. foreigners d. women ____ 21. What city is associated with the Phoenicians?

a. Samaria c. Tyre b. Damascus d. Jerusalem ____ 22. The greatest merchants in Canaan were the a. Arameans. c. Philistines. b. Hittites. d. Phoenicians. ____ 23. The language spoken by Jesus and His disciples was probably a. Aramaic. c. Hebrew. b. Greek. d. Latin. ____ 24. Israel’s history can be traced back to a. Abraham. c. Jacob. b. Isaac. d. Moses. ____ 25. Which civilization supplied much of the materials needed for the building of the Hebrew temple? a. Amorite c. Persian b. Hittite d. Phoenician ____ 26. The twelve tribes of Israel divided over what issue? a. control of the temple c. tax increase b. succession following Solomon d. waterway control ____ 27. Which of the following civilizations was used by God to protect and provide for His chosen people? a. Assyrian c. Phoenician b. Chaldean d. Persian ____ 28. Assyrians were known for all the following except a. cruelty to captives. c. terrorism. b. military strength. d. naval power. ____ 29. The dispersion, or scattering, of the Jews is known as the a. Avesta. c. Diaspora. b. Babylonian Captivity. d. theocracy. ____ 30. Which of the following civilizations included all the other civilizations? a. Assyrian c. Median b. Chaldean d. Persian ____ 31. The Bible refers to Cyrus as a. “the Great.” c. “the Lord’s anointed.” b. “the Conqueror.” d. “the Lord’s rebuilder.” ____ 32. The Royal Road was part of which civilization? a. Assyrian c. Lydian

b. Chaldean d. Persian ____ 33. Crete became the center for which early Greek civilization? a. Dorian c. Mycenaean b. Minoan d. Trojan ____ 34. What city located near the Hellespont became a major commercial rival for other early Greek cities? a. Knossos c. Mycenae b. Minos d. Troy ____ 35. The Dark Ages are also called the Homeric Age because Homer a. wrote laws and governed during this age. b. was a mighty warrior of this age. c. wrote poems that give the only insight into the Greek way of life during this age. d. developed a new system of writing. ____ 36. What city did Heinrich Schliemann discover in the nineteenth century? a. Athens c. Troy b. Sparta d. Knossos ____ 37. The Olympic Games were originally held in honor of a. Apollo. c. Poseidon. b. Athena. d. Zeus. ____ 38. “Having human form or attributes” is the definition for which term? a. personification c. humanity b. anthropomorphic d. anatomic ____ 39. Greeks were hindered in political unity because of a lack of a. shared language. c. geographic unity. b. common customs. d. common religion. ____ 40. Which of the following was not a form of government experienced by the city-states? a. anarchy c. monarchy b. democracy d. oligarchy ____ 41. What term refers to a rule by one? a. anarchy c. oligarchy b. monarchy d. democracy ____ 42. What term refers to a rule by a few? a. tyranny c. oligarchy b. monarchy d. democracy ____ 43. What term refers to a rule by the people?

a. anarchy c. oligarchy b. monarchy d. democracy ____ 44. What term refers to a rule by force? a. tyranny c. oligarchy b. monarchy d. democracy ____ 45. Which term refers to a city and the basic political unit of Greece? a. acropolis c. polis b. archon d. metropolis ____ 46. The Spartan way of life centered on a. artistic abilities. c. philosophical writing. b. military training. d. religious ceremonies. ____ 47. Sparta’s government would be classified as a. an anarchy. c. a monarchy. b. a democracy. d. an oligarchy. ____ 48. Which Greek historian wrote about the Persian Wars? a. Euclid c. Thales b. Herodotus d. Thucydides ____ 49. Which Persian king burned Athens? a. Darius I c. Solon b. Darius III d. Xerxes ____ 50. The government of Athens under Pericles was a. a monarchy. c. an oligarchy. b. a tyranny. d. a democracy. ____ 51. Alexander the Great was a student of a. Aristotle. c. Socrates. b. Plato. d. Thales. ____ 52. Alexander the Great’s father, who united Macedonia, was a. Xerxes. c. Pericles. b. Philip II. d. Darius III. ____ 53. Which of the following is not true of Plato? a. He was a contemporary of Pericles. b. He established the Academy in Athens. c. He believed too much freedom led to anarchy. d. He wrote the Republic . ____ 54. Which of the following is not true of Aristotle?