midterm

Question 1

why did cavemen draw on walls

Answer 1

they tried to summon creatures like magic

Question 2

how long ago did king menes rule

Answer 2

he ruled over Egypt 5100 years ago

Question 3

what were the rulers of ancient Egypt called

Answer 3

pharaohs

Question 4

what is the ancient Egyptian writing system called?

Answer 4

Hieroglyphs

Question 5

To the Egyptians everything old was what?

Answer 5

To the Egyptians everything old was sacred

Question 6

what was a tomb intended to be?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What was combined to write osiris

Answer 7

A throne and an eye

Question 8

What were the languages found on the rosetta stone

Answer 8

Ancient greek, Egyptian Hieroglphs, and another Egyptian dialect

Question 9

What did the Ancient Egyptians use to write

Answer 9

They used long strips of papyrus

Question 10

What river did the Egyptians worship?

Answer 10

They worshipped the Nile

Question 11

Who was the ancient Egyptian sun god?

Answer 11

Amon

Question 12

Who was the god of the kingdom of dead

Answer 12

Anubis

Question 13

What are the tall pointed granite

Answer 13

Obelisks

Question 14

How did the Ancient Egyptians stop bodies from decaying

Answer 14

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

Question 15

How long did the neanderthals inhabit the earth

Answer 15

They inhabited the earth for about two hundred thousand years

Question 16

How long did the neanderthals appear before our ancestors

Answer 16

They appeared seventy thousand years before our ancestors

Question 17

What were the winters and summers like during the stone age

Answer 17

Winters were longer and summers shorter

Question 18

who invented talking

Answer 18

cavemen

Question 19

how long did the ice age last

Answer 19

Many tens of thousands of years

Question 20

Mesopotamia resided between which two rivers?

Answer 20

The Tigris and the Euphrates

Question 21

The name Mesopotamia is Greek for what?

Answer 21

It is greek for the land between the rivers

Question 22

Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?

Answer 22

“Between Egypt and Mesopotamia there is a land of deep valleys and rich pastures.”

Question 23

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

Answer 23

the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade.”

Question 24

What is a “monotheistic herdsman”?

Answer 24

Some one who believes there is only one god

Question 25

How did the Jews make history

Answer 25

Through their religion

Question 26

What would the Jews say their god didnt create

Answer 26

songs and stories

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Genesis, from Ur

Question 28

Abraham was probably alive at the same time as whom?

Answer 28

Hammurabi

Question 29

“And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick

Answer 29

Exodus

Question 30

who was the jews first king and who was the neighboring tribe

Answer 30

Saul, the philistines

Question 31

what was found at the innermost part of the Jewish temple?

Answer 31

the tablets of the law and The ten commandments

Question 32

What were the names of the two kingdoms that arose after Solomon’s reign?

Answer 32

The kingdom of israel and the kingdom of judah

Question 33

Deep inside the __________ temples, there were images of other gods, and through the word of the Jewish people’s __________, they heard again and again about their own suffering.

Answer 33

heathen, prophets

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Exodus

Question 35

Which of the following things did King Nebuchadnezzar not do?

Answer 35

Destroyed the city of Judah