Deck 4: Empire and Resistance in the Mediterranean 1550-330 B.C.E.

Question 1

How did the Nubian and Egyptian cultures interact after the Nubian conquest of Egypt?

A) Egyptians began to adopt Nubian culture
B) Nubians promoted Nubian culture in Egypt
C) Nubians promoted Egyptian culture in Nubia
D) Nubians encouraged both cultures to maintain their distinct features

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In general, women in this period of Egypt's history

A) seem to have possessed more influence and legal autonomy than anywhere else in the ancient world
B) seem to have possessed less influence and legal autonomy than anywhere else in the ancient world
C) were seen as the equals of men
D) were ignored

Answer 2

A

Question 3

We are particularly well-informed about the craftsmen who dug and decorated tombs in the Valleys of the Kings the Queens because

A) they signed their work
B) written records have much to say on the subject
C) they were lauded by the pharaohs in inscriptions
D) archaeologists have excavated the village where they lived

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Egyptians showed no respect for the _________, whom they considered inferior and uncivilized.

A) Syrians
B) vassal states
C) rulers of Southwest Asia
D) Nubians

Question 5

Egyptians' primary interest in Nubia was its

A) gold mines
B) culture
C) gods
D) military prowess

Question 6

Unlike the Egyptians, Nubian kings were buried with

A) horses
B) servants
C) food
D) gold

Question 7

The period of Nubian rule over Egypt was characterized by

A) prosperity, in many respects
B) popular resentment of Nubia among Egyptians
C) Egyptian poverty and oppression
D) unwavering support of Nubia by Egyptian elites

Question 8

The Nubian city of Meroe was conquered by Axum once

A) Axum began breeding horses
B) Egypt regained its independence
C) Axum became Rome's preferred center for access to African trade
D) Meroe became Rome's preferred center for access to African trade

Question 9

Representations of Meroites on monuments gave Greek and Roman authors the impression that

A) Nubian queens did not marry
B) Nubia was always ruled by queens
C) the leaders of Nubia's armies were women
D) women were the heads of Nubian households

Question 10

The Nubians were driven out of Egypt by the

A) Egyptians
B) Assyrians
C) Axumites
D) Greeks

Question 11

The Assyrian state was organized around the demands of

A) engineering
B) the arts
C) new cultural developments
D) warfare

Question 12

The Assyrians filled their need for manpower through

A) slavery of conquered people
B) conscription of all conquered men into the army
C) deportation of conquered people
D) requiring all women to work

Question 13

Queen Naqia of Assyria derived her power from her position as

A) wife of the king
B) mother of a prince
C) her own independent political position
D) daughter of the king

Question 14

Because, in part, of the size of the empire, the Assyrians preferred for conquered territories to be governed by

A) the Assyrian king
B) a close relative of the king
C) the local king, from whom the Assyrians demanded obedience
D) bureaucrats responsible to the Assyrian king

Question 15

The yearly contributions conquered territories were required to pay to Assyria are known as

A) tribute
B) taxes
C) dues
D) fees

Question 16

In response to Assyrian military aggression, Israel and Judah

A) split apart
B) attacked independently
C) joined forces
D) surrendered immediately

Question 17

As they conquered other cultures, the Assyrians

A) required all to adopt Assyrian culture and customs
B) allowed new subjects to maintain their own cultures and religions
C) enforced their own religion upon their new subjects, but allowed other local customs to continue
D) required only people living in the core of the empire to assimilate

Question 18

Extensive trade contacts led to the adoption of the _________ alphabet by many foreign peoples.

A) Assyrian
B) Aramean
C) Roman
D) Phoenician

Question 19

The defeat of the Assyrian empire was caused by

A) the lack of a strong king, creating instability and uncertainty
B) rebellion among its provinces
C) the strategic superiority of the Neo-Babylonians
D) a drought

Question 20

The Persian respect for local cultures and identities across their empire was

A) unprecedented
B) short lived
C) key to their success
D) limited to cultures sharing their religion

Question 21

The difficulties Darius faced after the death of Cambyses led him to

A) present himself as the legitimate heir to local thrones, adopting local throne names in each
B) create 20 provinces, known as satrapies
C) replace Persian governors with local rulers
D) drastically reduce the tribute due from each territory

Question 22

The Persian empire was ultimately defeated by

A) Alexander the Great
B) Greece
C) Darius III
D) the Medes

Question 23

To administer their colossal empire, the Persians developed

A) an extensive road system
B) improved chariots
C) a simplified writing system
D) an imperial mail service

Question 24

Before their empire, the Persians _____________ to write their language.

A) used cuneiform
B) did not have a script
C) used the Aramaic alphabet
D) used pictograms

Question 25

The Persians restored local traditions that their imperial predecessors had recently disrupted, most famously by

A) adopting coinage from the Lydians
B) taking local throne names
C) participating in traditional rituals to local gods
D) allowing Judean deportees to return from Babylonia to Jerusalem

Question 26

Zoroastrianism is characterized by

A) polytheism
B) monotheism
C) dualism
D) atheism

Question 27

The Greeks strengthened their connections to the larger world through

A) colonization
B) the spread of their language and culture
C) military might and the conquests of Alexander
D) maritime skill and piracy

Question 28

A crucial innovation introduced to the alphabet by the Greeks was

A) introducing punctuation
B) writing down the vowels
C) writing down the consonants
D) simplifying the letter forms

Question 29

Unlike the city-states of Mesopotamia, in Greek city-states

A) a king held the power
B) the citizens shared power
C) representatives were selected to join a body governing Greece as a whole
D) all inhabitants shared power

Question 30

The Greek image of themselves as cultured and having proper political institutions, customs, and social behavior, while others were barbarians, grew from

A) their victory in the Persian Wars
B) their loss in the Persian Wars
C) their victory in the Peloponnesian Wars
D) their loss in the Peloponnesian Wars