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The "Babylonian Captivity" of the Hebrew people was begun in the rule of Cyrus the Great.

False, Cyrus ended the captivity and ruled with great tolerance

The Mesopotamian believed that

disease was caused by gods or demons

Akhenaton

established a form of monotheism that temporarily transformed egyptian religious beliefs

Code of Hammurabi

establishes the inequality of women

The Phoenicians

were a sea-faring people

Five events listed below. 1. Babylonian Captivity. 2. Dedication of the Second Temple 3. The exodus 4. Creation of an Israelite kingdom under David and Solomon 5. The conquest of Canaan Put them in chronological order

3,5,4,1,2

The first empire in the Near East was created by the

Akkadians

At the heart of Hebrew belief is the affirmation that...

God is one, sovereign, transcendent, and good

The two gods most fundamental to Egyptian religious belief were:

Isis and Osiris

The Jews were conquered and exiled from their homeland by...

Romans, Assyrians, Chaldeans

The initial shift from village to city inhabitation took place in Mesopotamia, known to the Greeks as "The Land between Rivers" and to modern historians as:

Sumer

The Torah is

The first five books of the Bible

The Mesopotamian achievements in mathematics include...

They had some understanding of quadratic equations, they divided the circle into 360 degrees, and they determined the area of rectangles

The switch from subsistence by food gathering to food production:

Was a momentous revolution that made stable settlements possible

The Mesopotamian Kings

Were believed to be representatives of the gods

The civilization that emerged in ancient Egypt arose:

at the same time as that of ancient Sumer

It is most correct to state that pharaoh was

both man and god

The common religion of the Sumerians:

included many gods, with a different god worshiped in each city-state

The Old Testament

is composed of writings done over a period of hundreds of years by a number of different persons

Mesopotamia

is the Greek word for "land between the rivers"

The Hebrews view of nature held that

it was good and created by God.

What three things were developed by Neolithic people?

the potter's wheel, the sail, the plow

The Egyptians developed elaborate tombs and burial techniques:

to provide the dead with all they would need in the afterlife

Assurbanipal II, king of Assyria, has the distinction of a reputation for cruelty and savagery.

true

Hierarchical structures of leadership were uncommon in early societies.

true, these societies may have been highly organized, but lack of personal wealth and attendant distinctions in rank and status was unlikely.

During the Paleolithic Age, people

were hunters and food gatherers

The covenant meant that the Hebrews

were obligated to surrender all beliefs in other gods