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Question 1

Of what did the Egyptians not sing in praise of their river four-thousand years ago?

Answer 1

“You water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. You quench the thirsty desert, far from any water. You bring forth the barley, you create the wheat. You fill the granaries and storehouses, not forgetting the poor.”

Question 2

When did Menes rule over Egypt?

Answer 2

3100 BC 5100 years ago

Question 3

Why did the Egyptians preserve all their ancient traditions over the centuries and the priests make sure that no son did anything his father had not done before?

Answer 3

To them, everything old was sacred.

Question 4

Who was the sun god in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 4

Amon

Question 5

Who was the god of the Kingdom of the Dead?

Answer 5

Anubis

Question 6

Which of the following was not a method that the Ancient Egyptians used to preserve the bodies of the dead?

Answer 6

They bandaged them with long strips of papyrus so that they wouldn’t decay.

Question 7

Why did Ancient Egyptians put in food and furniture and clothes in the tombs and create paintings on the walls from the life of the departed?

Answer 7

A tomb was intended to be a dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body.

Question 8

Which of the following is not an example of how Egyptians “knew what they were doing”?

Answer 8

How they pumped water into ditches as a primitive plumbing system

Question 9

Which three languages are found on the Rosetta Stone?

Answer 9

Ancient Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and another Egyptian dialect were found on the Rosetta Stone.

Question 10

How long did Ancient Egypt’s empire last?

Answer 10

Nearly 3000 years

Question 11

Which pharaoh attempted to change Ancient Egypt’s culture?

Answer 11

Akhenaton

Question 12

Which is not related to Akhenaton?

Answer 12

He invested time in the gods and the culture’s mysterious rituals.

Question 13

Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?

Answer 13

Between Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question 14

The Jewish people were first conquered and ruled by the __________, and then the __________ would invade.

Answer 14

Egyptians, Babylonians

Question 15

Complete the Sentiment: The Ancient Jewish God “was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never __________.”

Answer 15

Abandoned his people

Question 16

Where is the story of Abraham located, and where is Abraham from?

Answer 16

Genesis, Ur

Question 17

Abraham was probably alive at the same time as whom?

Answer 17

King Hammurabi

Question 18

Mortar and brick

Answer 18

Exodus

Question 19

Choose the vocabulary that best fits. These people who __________ to their flocks eventually sang of a better and stronger and more __________ god whom they worshiped.

Answer 19

Tended, exalted

Question 20

Choose the vocabulary that best fits: “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with __________: and they made their lives __________ with hard __________.”

Answer 20

rigor, bitter, bondage

Question 21

In the book of __________, Moses leads his people out of Egypt into the desert.

Answer 21

Exodus

Question 22

Which of the following things did King Nebuchadnezzar not do?

Answer 22

Destroyed the city of Judah

Question 23

Which of the following do we not attribute to pharaohs?

Answer 23

They were immensely powerless.

Question 24

Which of the following two cities existed in Mesopotamia?

Answer 24

Nineveh and Babylon

Question 25

The name Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

Answer 25

Land between the rivers

Question 26

One such mound, standing in the desert, is all that remains of __________, once the greatest city on earth, a city swarming with people who came there from every part of the world to trade their wares.

Answer 26

Babylon

Question 27

Upstream, at the foot of the mountains, sits another. This was __________, the second greatest city in the land … [the capital of] of the Assyrians.

Answer 27

Nineveh

Question 28

Which quality do historians and archaeologists not think demonstrates a culture?

Answer 28

towns and tradesmen, noblemen and kings, temples and priests, administrators and artists, writing and technical skills.

Question 29

Which of the following items was not discovered in the burial sites at Ur?

Answer 29

A silver shield designed with rubies

Question 30

Archaeologists learned that people in the plains near the Persian Gulf had already learned to shape bricks from clay and build houses and temples by what year?

Answer 30

3100 BC

Question 31

With thanks to recorded business dealings, who do historians know were great traders in Mesopotamia?

Answer 31

Sumerians

Question 32

When did King Hammurabi live?

Answer 32

1700 BC

Question 33

In which of the following ways were the Babylonians and Assyrians kings not portrayed in their statues?

Answer 33

They sat upon jeweled thrones

Question 34

Which ancient Mesopotamian cultures observed the stars and gave names to constellations?

Answer 34

The Babylonians and the Assyrians

Question 35

To which gods and goddess did the Babylonians and Assyrians make sacrifices?

Answer 35

Baal, Ishtar

Question 36

Which of the following qualities is not attributed to the Babylonian and Sumerian strange buildings?

Answer 36

At the very top was a temple dedicated to the Nebuchadnezzar, or one of the other Mesopotamian rulers

Question 37

Against whom did Nebuchadnezzar fight and bring home a vast number of foreign captives as slaves?

Answer 37

Egypt

Question 38

Which of the following pictures did the Babylonians and Assyrians not portray in their statues?

Answer 38

Priests inspecting kneeling captives bound in chains

Question 39

Which of the following qualities is not attributed to the Babylonian and Sumerian strange buildings?

Answer 39

Sturdy columns that upheld ornate balconies where priests stood

Question 40

In what way did the Ancient Jews make history rather than being part of history?

Answer 40

they didnt

Question 41

Moses leads his poeple

Answer 41

Exodus