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HIS 1005 - Billington Test 1 Multiple Choice

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Name the famous"Female pharaoh" who ruled Egypt in the 18th dynasty.
Hatshepsut
Name of the Syrian king who lost a large army to a plague during the reign of Hezekiah.
Sennacharib
Sumerians foretold the future by looking at what part of the sacrificed animal?
Liver
About when did the Neolithic period begin in the Fertile Crescent?
8000-7000 BC!
Which famous Akkadian King conquered the Sumerians in ca. 2350 BC?
Sargon I
The Egyptian Pharaoh whose is gold-filled tomb Howard Carter found in 1922 was?
King Tutankhamen or King Tut
About when were the Great Pyramids built in Egypt?
2600 BC
What people invented the first true alphabet?
Canaanites/Phoenicians
The most important king of the Neo-Babylonian empire was?
Nebuchadnezzar II
The most important development in the Neolithic period was:
Domestication of plants and animals
Who caused the end of the Hittite empire in 1200 BC?
They were invaded by the coalition of Sea Peoples/Philistines !
The people of the ancient city of Carthage were:
The Canaanites
According to the early days, who is the pharaoh of the Exodus?
Amenhotep II
According to the late date, who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?
Ramses II
In the Law Code of Hammurabi how was an adulterous woman to be executed?
Tied to the man and drowned
Canaanites of the Old Testament were called what name by the Greeks?
Phoenicians - which means Phoenix
About when was Zoroaster born?
650 BC!
Which city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Nineveh
What were satraps?
Provincial governors
The Egyptian king who first united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation in 3100 BC, and who also founded the First Dynasty in Egypt was:
Menes
The capital of the Hittite empire was:
Hattusas
The kingdom of Urartu is known in the Old Testament as:
Ararat
The Indo-Aryan rulers of the kingdom of Mitanni worshiped several deities which were also worshiped by the Indo-Aryan people of:
India
The name of the Babylonian king who left his son Belshazzar to rule for him:
Nabonidus
A stela or stele is:
Tombstone!
Which Assyrian king carried the northern tribes of Israel and captivity?
Sargon II
The ancient Babylonian Flood story is found in:
Epic of Gilgamesh
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were:
Major cities in the Indus River Civilization
Ziggurats were:
Temples sumarian/babylonian!
Which Jewish king is shown paying tribute to the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III on the Black Obelisk?
King 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 the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal do with the corpses of the Babylonians?
Fed to fish and animals!
Which Pharaoh supposedly tried to establish a form of monotheism in Egypt?
Akhenaten
Which Persian king captured in the city of Babylon in 539 BC?
Cyrus the Great
Which people were the first to invent writing?
Summarians
During the Old Kingdom, most of the kings of Egypt were buried:
In Pyramids
The international language of both Babylonian and Persian empires were:
Aramaic
In Hammurabi's Law Code, the largest number of laws deal with:
family law and social class differences
What Persian king in 538 BC allowed Jesus 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 and Egypt to the Persian Empire?
Cambyses
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