Western Civ Exam #1 Multiple Choice
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Name the "Famous Pharaoh" who ruled Egypt in the 18th Dynasty? | Hatshepsut |
| Assyrian King who lost a large army due to a plague during the reign of Hezekiah? | Sennacharib |
| Sumerians foretold the future by looking at what part of a sacrificed animal? | liver |
| About when did the Neolithic Period begin in the Fertile Crescent? | 7000-8000 BC |
| Which famous Akkadian king conquered the Sumerians in ca. 2350 BC? | Sargon II |
| The Egyptian Pharaoh whose gold-filled tomb Howard Carter found in 1922 was? | King Tut |
| About when were the Great Pyramids built in Egypt? | 2600 BC |
| What people invented the first true alphabet? | Phoenicians & Canaanites |
| The most important king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was? | Nebuchadnezzar |
| The most important development in the Neolithic period was? | the domestication of plants and animals |
| Who caused the end of the Hittite Empire in 1200 BC? | the sea people: Philistines |
| The people of the ancient city of Carthage were? | the Canaanites |
| According to the early date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? | Amenhotep II (1446 BC) |
| According to the late date, who was the pharaoh of the Exodus? | Ramses II (1270 BC) |
| In the Law Code of Hammurabi, how was an adulterous woman to be executed? | drowned |
| Canaanites of the Old Testament were called by what name by the Greeks? | The Phoenicians |
| About when was Zoroaster born? | 650 BC |
| Which city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire? | Nineveh |
| What were satraps? | Persian sub-kings |
| The Egyptian king who first united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation in ca. 3100 BC and who also founded the First Dynasty in Egypt was? | Menes |
| The capital city of the Hittite Empire was? | Hatusas |
| The Kingdom of Urartu known in the Old Testament as? | Ararat |
| The Indo-Aryan rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni worshipped several deities which were also worshipped by the Indo-Aryan people of? | Hindus and India |
| Name of the Babylonian king who left his son Belshazzar to rule for him? | Nabonidas |
| A stela or stele is? | a tombstone shape with inscription |
| Which Assyrian king carried the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel into captivity? | Sargon II |
| The ancient Babylonian flood story is found in? | The Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were? | the two cities of Indus civilization |
| Ziggurats were? | Babylonian tower temples |
| Which Jewish king is shown paying tribute to the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III on the Black Obelisk? | Jehu |
| The first ancient people who minted coins were the? | Lydians |
| The style of writing invented by the ancient Egyptians is today called? | hieroglyphics |
| What did Assyrian King Ashubanipal do with the corpses of the Babylonians? | fed them to fish and animals |
| Which pharaoh supposedly tried to establish a form of "monotheism" in Egypt? | Akenaten |
| Which Persian king captured the city of Babylon in 539 BC? | Cyrus the Great |
| Which people were the first to invent writing? | the Samarians |
| During the Old Kingdom, most of the kings of Egypt were buried in? | Pyramids |
| The international language of both the Babylonian and Persian Empires was? | Akkadian |
| In "Hammurabi's Law Code," the largest number of laws dealt with? | family and marriage |
| What Persian king in 538 BC allowed the Jews to return to Israel? | Cyrus the Great |
| Which Hebrew leader left his home in Ur in Mesopotamia to migrate to Palestine? | Abraham |
| The largest group of people in the Kingdom of Mitanni was? | Hurrians |
| The ancient Chaldeans are better known today as the? | Babylonians |
| Which Persian king added Egypt to the Persian Empire? | Cambyses |
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