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Western Civ Exam #1 Multiple Choice

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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
apis
bull
osiris
god of dead
cartouche
oval shape inscription with king name
Isis
wife of osiris
thoth
god of scribes
horus
falcon amonre
ankh
cross like symbol of life
aton
son disk
maat
goddess of justice
anubis
god of mummies
marduk
babylonian king of gods
zend avesta
persian holy book
book of the dead
egypt holy book
ishtar
babylonian sex goddess
baal hadad
storm god of canaanite
yahweh
hebrew god in ot
siva or shiva
hindu god worship by mitanni
asherah
wife of el mother of 70 children
rig veda
hindu holy book
ahura mazda
zoroastrian
merneptah stele
by pharaoh merneptah
egypt
1210 bc
mentions israelites in cannan destroyed them all
Mursilis I
King of hittites
asia minor
1595 bc
captured all mesopotamia
killed by brother in law
left mesopotania in chaos
rosetta stone
made by ptolemy V in 196 bc
hieroglyphics hieratid both egyptian and greek writing
used by french soldier champolleon to decipher hieroglyphic 182 ad
Behistun inscription
made by darius the great
located in mountatin of western iran
520 bc
written in 3 languages
tells how darius was selected to be king by zoroastrian god ahura mazda
sennacherib
king of assyria
700 bc
attacked hezekiah and jews lost 185000 men to plague
did not take jerusalem
belshazzar
co-king of babylon with his father
nabonidas
killed by mede/persian when they took babylon while all babylonians were drunk
darius I the great
king of persia
522 bc
adopted zoroastrianism
reorganized satrapie system
built a new palace
defeated at battle of marathon 490 bc
howard carter
english achaeologist
1922 ad
egypt
discovered tutankhamunis tomb
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