Early Civilizations/The Ancient World

Question 1

Abraham enters Canaan (Date)

Answer 1

c. 2090 B.C.

Question 2

The Exodus (Date)

Answer 2

c. 1446 B.C.

Question 3

Chaldean/Babylonian Empire (Date)

Answer 3

c. 612 - 539 B.C.

Question 4

Judah’s 70-year Captivity in Babylon (Date)

Answer 4

c. 605 - 536 B.C.

Question 5

Persian Empire (Date)

Answer 5

c. 550 - 331 B.C.

Question 6

Began and Ended the Persian Empire

Answer 6

Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great

Question 7

Discovered King Tut’s Tomb

Answer 7

Howard Carter

Question 8

Persian State Religion

Answer 8

Zoroastrianism

Question 9

Dating based on the reign of kings

Answer 9

Regnal Dating

Question 10

Mesopotamia (Meaning and modern location)

Answer 10

“The Land between the Rivers”; located in modern Iraq and Syria

Question 11

Regions in the Fertile Crescent

Answer 11

Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Palestine

Question 12

Regions in the Far East

Answer 12

India and China

Question 13

“The Cradle of Civilization”

Answer 13

Mesopotamia

Question 14

Civilization

Answer 14

A culture that has attained a high degree of complexity, characterized by urban life

Question 15

Aspects of Early Mesopotamian Life

Answer 15

EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN LIFE
A. Home – a swampy flood plain subject to irregular flooding
B. Tigris/Euphrates area was open to invasion & saw constant warfare
C. City-state
D. Writing system called cuneiform
F. Widespread Slavery
G. Polytheism

Question 16

Sargon I

Answer 16

aka Sargon the Great
Built the world’s first substantial empire (from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean)

Question 17

Under whom was Babylon prominent?

Answer 17

Hammurabi

Question 18

Famous for His Law Code

Answer 18

Hammurabi

Question 19

“The Gift of the Nile”

Answer 19

Egypt

Question 20

True or False: The Nile rose and fell with precision and deposited black silt on its banks.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Believed to be both a man and a god
The first to be mummified

Answer 21

Pharaoh

Question 22

Used to decipher hieroglyphics

Answer 22

Rosetta Stone

Question 23

Devised the first solar calendar

Answer 23

Egyptians

Question 24

Place at which the pyramids were at their zenith

Answer 24

Giza

Question 25

Period in which the age of pyramids was at its zenith

Answer 25

Old Kingdom Period

Question 26

Overthrown in a national uprising in Egypt

Answer 26

Hyksos

Question 27

First Female Pharaoh

Answer 27

Hatshepsut

Question 28

Pharaoh of the Exodus

Answer 28

Amenhotep II

Question 29

Attempted Monotheistic Reform

Answer 29

Akhenaton

Question 30

Tutankhamun also known as

Answer 30

King "Tut"

Question 31

Signifcance of Tutankhamun

Answer 31

His tomb escaped looting and was found largely intact

Question 32

(First Three) Kings of Israel's United Kingdom

Answer 32

Saul David Solomon

Question 33

Israel's Divided Kingdom

Answer 33

Israel (10 Tribes) in the North and Judah (2 Tribes) in the South

Question 34

Identified with Samaria

Answer 34

Israel

Question 35

Kingdom Identified with Jerusalem

Answer 35

Judah

Question 36

Conquered Israel (Northern Tribes)

Answer 36

Assyrians [722 B.C.]

Question 37

Conquered Judah (Southern Tribes)

Answer 37

Babylonians (586 B.C.)

Question 38

Western European Peoples during the Iron Age

Answer 38

Celts

Question 39

People group formerly claimed as evidence of errors in the Bible

Answer 39

Hittites

Question 40

The Hittites' region

Answer 40

Asia Minor

Question 41

True or False: When Archaeology verified Biblical references to the Hittites, historians practiced [good] revisionism

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Used iron weapons and made formal treaties

Answer 42

Hittites

Question 43

Another name for the Phoenicians

Answer 43

Canaanites

Question 44

The Mediterranean's greatest traders, navigators, shipbuilders, and colonizers

Answer 44

Phoenicians

Question 45

Most popular Phoenician export

Answer 45

Cloth dyed purple

Question 46

People group that dominated camel caravan trade

Answer 46

Arameans

Question 47

International language of the Near East

Answer 47

Aramaic

Question 48

Militaristic & Cruel People

Answer 48

Assyrians (they ruled by terror)

Question 49

Another name for the Babylonians

Answer 49

Chaldeans

Question 50

Joined with the Medes to overthrow the Assyrians

Answer 50

Chaldeans

Question 51

Where was Persia (modern-day)?

Answer 51

Iran

Question 52

One of the "greatest conquerors in the history of the ancient Near East"

Answer 52

Cyrus the Great

Question 53

Which empire built an [efficient] royal highway?

Answer 53

Persian

Question 54

Epic written before Genesis

Answer 54

Epic of Gilgamesh