Deck 9: Civilization Beyond the Near East, Greece, and Rome 2300-31 BCE

Question 1

Which of the following were names given to the Scythians by various other ancient cultures?

A)Cimmerians
B)Ashkuza
C)Mauri
D)Saka

Answer 1

A,B,D

Question 2

Which Scythian philosopher was counted as one of the Seven Wise Men of the Greek world?

A)Herodotus
B)Mithridates
C)Anacharsis
D)Chandragupta

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Alexander the Great's admiral _______ surveyed the coast between India and Persia and then wrote an account of India, some of which is preserved by the later author Arrian.

A)Nearchus
B)Polyperchon
C)Parmenion
D)Cleitus

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who led a revolt against the Nanda Empire in India and founded the Mauryan Empire in the late fourth century BCE?

A)Antiochus
B)Chandragupta
C)Menander
D)Mauryus

Question 5

The great Mauryan king Asoka abandoned the traditional Indian Hindu religion and converted to _______.

A)Judaism
B)Zoroastrianism
C)Buddhism
D)Mithraism

Question 6

Which of the following are among the classes into which Parthian society was structured?

A)hunters
B)merchants
C)nobles and priests
D)farmers and herders

Question 7

The four-thousand-mile trade route known as the _______ was opened in 114 BCE, linking China with Parthia.

A)"Royal Road"
B)"Silk Road"
C)"Merchants' Path"
D)"Kerma"

Question 8

A cursive form of the Nabataean script evolved into the _______ alphabet.

A)Latin
B)Gothic
C)Arabic
D)Cyrillic

Question 9

The Kushites invented an alphabet, known as the _______, in order to write their still undeciphered language.

A)Giligammaean script
B)Lotophagic script
C)Meroïtic script
D)Tiberian script

Question 10

The distinctive use of the cosmetic kohl is associated with which culture?

A)Punt
B)Nasamonians
C)Scythians
D)Turditani

Question 11

The use of hundreds of miles of foggara to access fossil water sources are especially associated with which culture?

A)Scythians
B)Garamantes
C)Carthaginians
D)Parthians

Question 12

According to tradition, Dido cut an oxhide into thin strips that encircled the _______, a high point that became the acropolis of Carthage.

A)Byrsa
B)Meroë
C)Torque
D)oppidum

Question 13

A treatise on agriculture written by the Carthaginian writer _______ was later translated into Latin and became a standard work on the subject.

A)Himilco
B)Hanno
C)Jugurtha
D)Mago

Question 14

Which divine couple was at the top of the Carthaginian pantheon?

A)Astarte and Mot
B)Melqart and Tanit
C)Melqart and Astarte
D)Tanit and Ba'al Hammon

Question 15

Some of the best-preserved Greek pottery comes not from Greece but from _______.

A)Celtiberia
B)Etruria
C)Scythia
D)The Hallstatt Culture

Question 16

_______ vanished from history toward the end of the sixth century BCE, perhaps because of flooding and/or Carthaginian expansion?

A)Bactria
B)Etruria
C)Tartessus
D)Kush

Question 17

Which of the following were cultures of inland Europe in the Bronze Age?

A)The Únetice Culture
B)The Urnfield Culture
C)The Tumulus Culture
D)The Corded-Ware Culture

Question 18

The distinctive use of _______ was frequent among northern European peoples for the deposit of both votive offerings and human corpses.

A)caves
B)mountain peaks
C)trees
D)peat bogs

Question 19

Which of the cities located on this map became the most powerful by the early third century BCE?

A)Garama
B)Tartessus
C)Carthage
D)Meroë

Question 20

The fact that this gold shekel depicts the goddess Tanit on one side reveals that it is a coin of the _______.

A)Scythians
B)Carthaginians
C)Bactrians
D)Kushites