Deck 1: Water and Soil, Stone and Metal: The First Civilizations

Question 1

Two rivers enabled Sumerian agriculture and its civilization, the Tigris and the

A) Danube.
B) Nile.
C) Jordan.
D) Euphrates.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Early agriculturalists were mostly men.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Bronze appeared by:

A) 2000 bce
B) 4000 bce
C) 7000 bce
D) 500 ce

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Humanity's relationship with the gods, according to early Mesopotamian religion, can best be described as

A) humans exist to serve the gods.
B) the gods created humans as entertainment.
C) humans exist to choose between good and evil.
D) humans exist to fight the gods.

Question 5

Secular and religious power in Mesopotamia was represented by the two offices of _________and __________, which emerged together.

Question 6

Enlil was

A) the first king.
B) a river in Sumer.
C) a priestess.
D) the sky god.

Question 7

The myth of the __________________ represented a fear of real events for Sumerians.

Question 8

Writing was a tightly held monopoly by professional scribes in Sumer.

Question 9

What group conquered the Sumerian city-states around 2350 bce?

A) Egyptians
B) Sea People
C) Akkadians
D) Indians

Question 10

Sargon's conquered territory was linked together in an early form of ________.

Question 11

Sargon grew wealthy from combining Sumer's agriculture with

A) trade.
B) diplomacy.
C) exploration.
D) metallurgy.

Question 12

The Akkadian Empire was the first example of the importance of the connections between which two regions?

A) Europe and America
B) Central Asia and the Mediterranean
C) the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
D) Africa and Europe

Question 13

The Nile Delta forms the region known as "Lower Egypt?"

Question 14

_____________developed the system of dynasties used to delineate Egyptian kings.

Question 15

The Egyptians may have acquired writing from what civilization?

A) the Sumerians
B) the Old Kingdom
C) the Akkadians
D) the Babylonians

Question 16

"Nomes" were

A) rulers.
B) priests.
C) regions.
D) gods.

Question 17

The capital city of Old Kingdom Egypt was

A) Memphis.
B) Cairo.
C) Aswan.
D) Alexandria.

Question 18

Egypt was a wealthy civilization because

A) they had extensive gold mines.
B) they had easy access to slaves from sub-Saharan Africa.
C) the regular flooding of the Nile made the land fertile.
D) the gods decreed it.

Question 19

Religion in ancient Egypt had little to do with ethics.

Question 20

Which of the following civilizations spoke an Indo-European language?

A) Egyptians.
B) Hebrews.
C) Hittites.
D) Assyrians.