test review 3 Flashcards
Mesopotamia resided between which two rivers?
The Tigris and the Euphrates
Explanation:
“The Tigris and the Euphrates join together and then flow out into the Persian Gulf.”
The name Mesopotamia is Greek for what?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“…it was called Mesopotamia, which is Greek for the land ‘between the rivers.’”
Which of the following two cities existed in Mesopotamia?
Nineveh and Babylon
Explanation:
“This was Nineveh, the second greatest city in the land. Babylon was the capital of the Babylonians…”
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.
Babylon
Explanation:
“One such mound, standing in the desert, is all that remains of Babylon, once the greatest city on earth, a city swarming with people who came there from every part of the world to trade their wares.”
Upstream, at the foot of the mountains, sits another. This was __________, the second greatest city in the land … [the capital of] of the Assyrians.
Nineveh
Explanation:
Upstream, at the foot of the mountains, sits another. This was Nineveh, the second greatest city in the land. Babylon was the capital of the Babylonians—that’s easy enough to remember—Nineveh was that of the Assyrians.
Which quality do historians and archaeologists not think demonstrates a culture?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
For a long time it was thought that the Egyptians were the first people to have everything that goes to make up what we call a culture: towns and tradesmen, noblemen and kings, temples and priests, administrators and artists, writing and technical skills.
Which of the following items was not discovered in the burial sites at Ur?
A silver shield designed with rubies
reason N/A
Archaeologists discovered the ruins of which city beneath rubble mounds near the Persian Gulf, the city that the Bible states was where Abraham was born?
Ur
Explanation:
“Excavations of rubble mounds on plains near the Persian Gulf have revealed that the people living there had already learnt how to shape bricks from clay and build houses and temples by 3100 BC. Deep inside one of the largest of these mounds were found the ruins of the city of Ur…”
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?
Correct Answer:
3100 BC
Explanation:
“Excavations of rubble mounds on plains near the Persian Gulf have revealed that the people living there had already learnt how to shape bricks from clay and build houses and temples by 3100 BC.”
What did people discover inscribed in clay tablets?
Cuneiform
Explanation:
“However, the inscriptions were not in hieroglyphs, but in a totally different script … cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped.”
Into what did the Mesopotamians inscribe their signs?
Soft clay
Explanation:
“Books made of papyrus were unknown to Mesopotamians. They inscribed these signs into tablets of soft clay, which they then baked hard in ovens.”
What did the Epic of Gilgamesh describe his battles against?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“…such as that of the hero Gilgamesh and his battles with monsters and dragons.”
With thanks to recorded business dealings, who do historians know were great traders in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
Explanation:
There are also tablets on which merchants recorded their business dealings—contracts, receipts, and inventories of goods—and thanks to these we know that, even before the Babylonians and Assyrians, the ancient Sumerians were already great traders.
Which Mesopotamian ruler left a long and important inscription engraved in stone?
Hammurabi
Explanation:
“It is the oldest law-book in the world, and is known as the Code of Hammurabi.”
When did King Hammurabi live?
1700 BC
Explanation:
So it is worth remembering when King Hammurabi lived: around 1700 BC, that is some 3700 years ago.
The planet Mars is named after the god of what?
War
Explanation:
“Mars meant war”
The planet Venus is named after the goddess of what?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“Venus, love”
Which of the following pictures did the Babylonians and Assyrians not portray in their statues?
Warriors praying for victory
Explanation:
“Most of their statues and reliefs show kings out hunting or inspecting kneeling captives bound in chains, or foreign tribes-people fleeing before the wheels of their chariots, and warriors attacking fortresses.”
In which of the following ways were the Babylonians and Assyrians kings not portrayed in their statues?
They sat upon jeweled thrones
Explanation:
“The kings look forbidding, and have long black ringlets and rippling beards.”
To which gods and goddess did the Babylonians and Assyrians make sacrifices?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“[The Babylonians, and Assyrians after them,] are also sometimes shown making sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, or to the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte.”
Which ancient Mesopotamian cultures observed the stars and gave names to constellations?
The Babylonians and the Assyrians
Explanation:
“For both the Babylonians and the Assyrians worshiped the sun and the moon, and also the stars. On clear, warm nights, throughout the year and over centuries, they observed and recorded everything they saw in the skies.”
What is the name of the tall, broad towers that the Sumerians and Babylonians built to be nearer to the stars?
Ziggurats
Explanation:
“To be nearer to their stars, and also to see them better in a misty land, the Babylonians, and the Sumerians before them, erected strange buildings with a wonderful name: ziggurats. These are tall, broad towers made up of terraces piled one on top of another, with formidable ramps and steep, narrow staircases.”
Which of the following qualities is not attributed to the Babylonian and Sumerian strange buildings?
At the very top was a temple dedicated to the Nebuchadnezzar, or one of the other Mesopotamian rulers
Explanation:
These are tall, broad towers made up of terraces piled one on top of another, with formidable ramps and steep, narrow staircases. Right at the very top was a temple dedicated to the moon, or one of the other planets. People came from far and wide to ask the priests to read their fortunes in the stars, and brought offerings of great value.
What were Nebuchadnezzar’s “truly greatest deeds”?
His digging of huge canals and water cisterns
Explanation:
“And yet his truly greatest deeds were not his wars: he had huge canals and water cisterns dug in order to retain the water and irrigate the land so that it became rich and fertile.”
