Quiz The Ancient Near East
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Quiz: The Ancient Near East
HIEU 201 Week/Module
The ________ Age is also known as the Old Stone Age.
a. Neolithic
b. Classical
c. Archaic
d. Paleolithic
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In Paleolithic societies, human beings
a. lived in large permanent settlements of several thousand people.
b. obtained the necessities of life by gathering food and hunting.
c. were unable to communicate with one another by language.
d. had not yet acquired the ability to make tools.
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The
Epic of Gligamesh
depicts the Mesopotamians' mood of
a. sensuality and emotionality.
b. optimism and hope.
c. stoicism and tranquility.
d. pessimism and despair.
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Compared to a rational or scientific view of the world, a mythopoeic view
a. is more logically consistent than the rational view developed by the Greeks.
b. sees the world of nature as an entity, like a machine, rather than a living being.
c. appeals primarily to the emotions rather than reason and tends to be more subjective than objective.
d. shows little imagination or emotion in interpreting nature.
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Which of the following is NOT true of the Persian empire?
a. It was bound together by a uniform language, Aramaic.
b. It allowed local elites a large measure of self-rule.
c. It developed an effective administrative system of twenty provinces.
d. It was ruled by a council thought to represent the people.
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Which of the following civilizations rose first?
a. Sumerian
b. Hittite
c. Assyrian
d. Phoenician
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In Hammurabi's code of law
a. crimes against nobles were punished more severely than crimes against commoners.
b. the king was not bound by the law, but might legally do whatever he wished to do.
c. women enjoyed a legal status equal to that of men.
d. women and children had no legal protection.
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Sargon the Great
a. contributed to the spread of Sumerian culture beyond the boundaries of Mesopotamia.
b. was the leader of an important Sumerian city-state.
c. conquered territories, plundered their resources, and then left to find new opportunities for conquest.
d. was known for his policy of pursuing peace at any cost.
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Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Neolithic Age?
a. Human beings discovered farming.
b. Human beings started using iron tools.
c. Human beings domesticated animals.
d. Human beings established villages.
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The religious teachings of the prophet Zoroaster
a. are dualistic, asserting the existence of both a good god and an evil god.
b. reject the need for ethics in human life.
c. represent the earliest known examples of monotheistic faith.
d. are a complex set of polytheistic beliefs based on magic and blood sacrifice.
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Which of the following describes the Egyptians' relationship with their environment?
a. Nature served as a source of security.
b. The challenges of nature were designed to punish human beings.
c. The lack of natural boundaries subjected Egyptians to constant invasion and change.
d. The unpredictability of the Nile made Egyptian life precarious.
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The central force in the first civilizations was
a. popularly-selected governance.
b. religion.
c. iron technology.
d. science.
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The kings in ancient Mesopotamia
a. were believed to be living gods.
b. were rulers thought to have been selected by the gods to represent them on earth.
c. were replaced by democracies governed by elders and assemblies of citizens.
d. were viewed as being above the law and absolute in their power.
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Paleolithic religious beliefs
a. did not include belief in life after death.
b. centered around the idea that forces of nature had been created to serve human beings.
c. centered around the idea that human beings needed to appease the forces of nature.
d. made a clear distinction between nature and the supernatural.
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The Egyptian New Kingdom began with the war of liberation against the
a. Nubians.
b. Hyksos.
c. Assyrians.
d. Babylonians.
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The Sumerians erected their religious temples atop huge multilevel mounds called
a. cuneiform.
b. Nammu.
c. ziggurats.
d. stele.
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The first civilizations
a. abandoned the monumental architecture of prehistoric cultures.
b. lacked organized governments.
c. developed systems for administration, cooperation, and record-keeping.
d. did not yet possess specialization of labor.
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The pharaohs
a. communicated the gods' will to the Egyptian people.
b. had little impact on the lives of peasants and workers.
c. were elected by a noble class.
d. technically owned no earthly possessions.
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The economy of Mesopotamian cities
a. depended heavily on foreign and domestic trade.
b. was largely unregulated.
c. was conducted by a state bureaucracy.
d. was entirely self-sufficient.
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The Hittites
a. rejected all aspects of foreign culture.
b. ruled Asia Minor and northern Syria.
c. were absorbed into Babylonian civilization.
d. achieved no substantial technological progression.
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