HIS 101
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Directions: Put the letter of the correct answer in Column B
What is in the Cave of Chauvet which demonstrates the creativity of Paleolithic people?
Which of the following was an important technological innovation of Paleolithic peoples?
Which of the following can be associated with the Paleolithic Age?
What is best associated with the shift from hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence to producing food
by systematic agriculture?
Which of the following is best associated with the development of writing in Mesopotamia?
Through what practice did the Sumerians seek to discover the will and purpose of their gods?
Which of the following is best associated with the Fertile Crescent?
Which of the following is the most famous example of Mesopotamian literature?
The physical environment (geography) of the Mesopotamians generally led to
The Epic of Gilgamesh teaches that
What was the basic political unit of Mesopotamian civilization?
Which statement regarding Mesopotamian religion is NOT ACCURATE?
According to the traditional interpretation, what was a consequence of the Neolithic Revolution?
For what is Hammurabi best remembered?
Who were An, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursaga?
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, by what disaster did the gods attempt to destroy mankind?
What do Jerico and Catal Huyuk have in common?
With what are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro best associated?
Who is regarded as the creators of Mesopotamian civilization?
Which of the following is not an accurate statement regarding the Code of Hammurabi?
What was the most prominent structure in a Mesopotamian City?
Which statement regarding empires in ancient Mesopotamia is NOT ACCURATE?
A. Sargon established an Akkadian empire which included all of Mesopotamia.
B. Naram-Sin, the grandson of Sargon, continued the greatness of the Akkadian empire.
C. The Third Dynasty of Ur provided the example of empire which Sargon tried to emulate.
D. Hammurabi was a king of the Old Babylonian Empire.
E. The Third Dynasty of Ur represented a final flowering of Sumerian culture.
Which of the following is in the correct chronological order (your left to your right)?
A. Empire of Sargon, Empire of Naram-Sin, Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylon
B. Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylon, Empire of Sargon, Empire of Naram-Sin
C. Empire of Sargon, Old Babylon, Empire of Naram-Sin, Third Dynasty of Ur
D. Old Babylon, Empire of Sargon, Empire of Naram-Sin, Third Dynasty of Ur
E. Empire of Sargon, Third Dynasty of Ur, Empire of Naram-Sin, Old Babylon
What does Gobekli Tepe represent?
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According to your instructor, what was the most important consequence of the Neolithic Revolution?
What are the two characteristics that scientific knowledge must demonstrate?
What statement regarding the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia is NOT ACCURATE?
A. City-states were the basic units of Sumerian civilization
B. City-states were believed to be ruled by the gods.
C. The economy of Mesopotamian city-states was primarily agricultural.
D. Only royalty and religious officials lived within the city; other social classes resided outside the walls.
Which statement regarding the culture of ancient Mesopotamia is NOT ACCURATE?
A. Human beings were insecure because they could never be sure what their gods would do.
B. The Enuma elish is a Babylonian epic which describes the creation of the universe.
C. Mesopotamians believed the universe was safe because divination showed them the will of their gods.
D. Each city-state was sacred because it was linked to a god or goddess.
E. Created to do manual labor for the gods, human relationship with the deities was based on subservience
Who was Enkidu?
What is the principal lesson of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Which of the following is considered a basic characteristic of civilization?
Where was the land “between the rivers”?
According to Atrahasis, why was man (human beings) created?
Which of the following is considered a basic characteristic of civilization?
In addition to the Tigris and the Euphrates, where did civilization develop?
How did Utnapishtim know that the floor sent by the gods to destroy mankind had begun to dry up?
What did the Sumerian schoolboy do to improve his standing with his teacher?
According to your instructor, why does Mesopotamia occupy a “special place” among the world’s first civilizations?
Which Mesopotamian location currently can claim to be the “first city” in world history?
Which Mesopotamian is best associated with the earliest appearance of writing?
With which Mesopotamian city is Sir Leonard Wooley best associated?
Which Mesopotamian city as the home of Gilgamesh?