Mesopotamia & Egypt

Question 1

People turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture around

Answer 1

10,000 B.C.E

Question 2

Before entering an enjoyable afterlife, the deceased Egyptian supposedly

Answer 2

would be judged by Osiris

Question 3

The switch from subsistence by food gathering to food production

Answer 3

made stable settlements possible

Question 4

Mesopotamia means

Answer 4

a land between two rivers

Question 5

Virtually all human societies before 11,000 B.C.E. were

Answer 5

nomadic

Question 6

Sargon of Akkad (c. 2350 B.C.E.) is significant because he

Answer 6

subdues Sumer and established direct control over all of Mesopotamia

Question 7

Hammurabi’s law code favored women in all except

Answer 7

adultery

Question 8

The Egyptians developed elaborate tombs and burial technique

Answer 8

to provide the dead with all they would need in the afterlife

Question 9

Sumerian scribes c. 3100 B.C.E. advanced writing with durable reeds that

Answer 9

produced a wedge like script called cuneiform

Question 10

The initial shift from village inhabitation to city took place in:

Answer 10

Sumer

Question 11

The Sumerians’ pessimistic view of divine intervention derived from

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the lack of certainty due to the threat of flood