Ancient Near East

Question 1

The first written language was used for what?

Answer 1

Accounting

Question 2

This is not part of a larger group, it’s its own state.

Answer 2

City State

Question 3

What was the first culture?

Answer 3

Sumer culture

Question 4

What exactly makes up Sumer?

Answer 4

City States that develop along rivers of southern mesoptamia.

Question 5

What year was the Sumers?

Answer 5

3500-2340 BCE

Question 6

What were three things the Sumers were accredited for inventing?

Answer 6

1. Wagon Wheel
2. Plow
3. Writing on Tablet

Question 7

Development of Writing was what?

Answer 7

1. Pictographs
2. Phonographs
3. Cuniform Writing

Question 8

What was the instrument called that was used for writing?

Answer 8

Stylus

Question 9

What was a Summerian Temple called?

Answer 9

Ziggurat

Question 10

Ziggurats were man made what?

Answer 10

Mountains

Question 11

Building Ziggurats involved a lot of what?

Answer 11

Authority and systems

Question 12

What were the locations of the Votive Figures?

Answer 12

Eshunna- Presnt day Tell Asmar, Iraq

Question 13

What are the dates of the Votive Figures?

Answer 13

2900-2600 BCE

Question 14

What was the period of the Votive Figures?

Answer 14

Sumerian Dominance

Question 15

What were the Votive Figures made of?

Answer 15

Limestone, alabaster and gypsum

Question 16

What were the Votive Figures possibly used for?

Answer 16

Possible replacements of the person who can’t always devote themselves to worship-Hint Wide Open Eyes

Question 17

What makes the Votive figures stylized?

Answer 17

The way the hair and eyebrows are carved.

Question 18

What is the origin of the Cylinder Seal & Its Modern Impression?

Answer 18

Ur, Present day Muqaiyir, Iraq

Question 19

What period was the Cylinder Seal & Its Modern Impression?

Answer 19

Sumerian Dominance

Question 20

What material was used for Cylinder Seal & Its Modern Impression?

Answer 20

Lapis Lazuli

Question 21

Why did they bury the cylinder seal with it’s deceased owner?

Answer 21

So that no one else could use their seal.

Question 22

Akkadians settled north of what place?

Answer 22

Uruk

Question 23

Akkadians adopted Summerian Culture, but they spoke a Semitic Language( same family as Hebrew & Arabic)

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The Akkadians conquered most of what?

Answer 24

Mesopotania

Question 25

The Akkadian's dominance was between what years?

Answer 25

2254-2218 BCE

Question 26

Where is the Steele of Naram-Sin origin?

Answer 26

Akkad-Present Day Iraq

Question 27

What time period was the Steele of Naram-Sin?

Answer 27

Akkadian Dominance

Question 28

What is the Steele of Naram-Sin made of?

Answer 28

Limestone

Question 29

In the Steele of Naram-Sin, what is one of the character appear like he is doing?

Answer 29

Sacrifising himself.

Question 30

In the Steele of Naram-Sin, what are most of the figures doing to the big man with horns?

Answer 30

Pledging their allegiance to him.

Question 31

After centuries of fighting between Sumer, Akkad and Lagash, what people rose to dominance?

Answer 31

The Assyrians

Question 32

What years were the Assyrians dominant?

Answer 32

1400-600 BCE

Question 33

What did the Assyrians have that was strong?

Answer 33

Religion and Military Organization

Question 34

Reconstruction Drawing on the Citadel & Palace Complex of Sargon II came from where?

Answer 34

Dur Sharukin

Question 35

What time period was the Reconstruction Drawing on the Citadel & Palace Complex of Sargon II depiction?

Answer 35

Assyrian Dominance

Question 36

Guardian Figures from the Citadel of Sargon II are made of what?

Answer 36

Limestone & Alabaster

Question 37

What were the creatures called that were used as Guardian Figures?

Answer 37

Lamassus

Question 38

How many feet does the Lamassus have

Answer 38

5, but its for perspective

Question 39

Assunasirpal Killing Lions II was originally from where?

Answer 39

Kalhu- Present day Nimrud Iraq

Question 40

Assunasirpal Killing Lions II is what three things?

Answer 40

Relief Sculpture Low Relief Overlapping

Question 41

Assunasirpal Killing Lions II came from what time period?

Answer 41

Assyrian Dominance

Question 42

Why is Assunasirpal Killing Lions II low relief?

Answer 42

Because the picture doesn't potrude out so much.