Quiz 2

Question 1

History’s second great empire builder?

Answer 1

Sargon of Akkad

Question 2

Who founded the famed Third Dynasty of Ur?

Answer 2

Ur-Nammu (2100 B.C.)

Question 3

Who developed the world’s most ancient law code?

Answer 3

Ur-Nammu

Question 4

The way of life of a group of people?

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

What is it called when a people’s culture begins to include a specialized division of labor, a written language, a written code of laws, an organized form of civil government, and the development of the arts and sciences?

Answer 5

Civilization

Question 6

What is the process of transmitting the cultural heritage of a people from one generation to the next?

Answer 6

Education

Question 7

Recorded Sumerian history begins with…

Answer 7

Early Dynastic Age

Question 8

Who were the first to develop a system of formal schooling?

Answer 8

Sumerians

Question 9

Edubba

Answer 9

Sumerian school (“tablet house”)

Question 10

Huge temple tower

Answer 10

Ziggurat

Question 11

The spreading of cultural traits and patterns

Answer 11

Cultural diffusion

Question 12

Sumerian King

Answer 12

Lugal

Question 13

Belief in one God

Answer 13

Monotheism

Question 14

The worlds oldest work of of literature outside the Bible

Answer 14

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 15

The first empire to rule the Middle East after Sumer

Answer 15

Babylon

Question 16

1792-1750 King of Babylon

Answer 16

Hammurabi