HISTORY EXAM SG(TEST 2 ANSWERS ONLY)

Based on the Archeology clues, which of the following is likely true of the Indus River Vally Civilization?

It traded with civilization as far away as Mesopotamia

The Phoenicians are generally best remembered for thier?

Purple Dye and the Phoenician alphabet

The Standard of UR

Reveals a lot about the daily lives, social hierarchies, and warfare practices of Mesopotamia around four thousand years ago

The Bronze Age in the Mediterranean region is thought to have collapsed due to?

All of the above

Which of the following is not one of the common characteristics of the civilization that we have discussed?

Art

The most opulent and famous city in ancient Mesopotamia was _____ and its most famous feature was the ______

Babylon, Ishtar Gate

The Jewish people were famously freed from their captivity in Babylon by?

Cyrus

The best way to describe the relationship between the words egalitarian and patriarchal is?

Egalitarian refers to equality and patriarchal refers to men

The main reasons why Native Americans didn't have epidemic diseases to pass on to European explorers are?

Fewer urban centers (cities) and fewer domesticated animals in the Americans compared to Europe

Diaspora involves _____ while diffusion involves _____

People, ideas and technology

Herodotus, the famous historian of ancient Greece, probably called Egyptian civilization the "gift of the Nile" Why?

The Nile flooded regularly, consistently, and manageably, allowing for a very optimistic and durable culture to develop along its banks

The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is likely related to

The construction of ziggurats throughout Mesopotamia

Which of the following was not a Mesopotamia Invention

Tools

historians speculate the real reason of the Trojan War was?

Trade routes connecting the Aegean and Black Seas

Conventional scholarship concerning Human migrations currently suggest the humans likely first reached the Americans by?

Walking around 15,000 years ago