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The mile river provided ancjent Egyptians with

And excellent artery of transportstuon

The Olympic Games brought the Greeks together in shared pursuit of incidvudual ezcellence know as

Arete

Which of the following methods was used in selecting the ancient sathenian body, the council of 500

By lottery

The destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC and the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews occurred at the hand of the

Chaldeans

The cave in southern France discovered in 1994 and that contains 300 painting of animals is know as the BLANK cave

Chavet

Solomon's most revered contribution to the Hebrews society was to

Construct the temple the symbolic center of the Hebrews religion and society

Ancient Mesopotamia written language is know as

Cuneiform

The Philippics were a series of orations in which

Demosthenes convinced the Athenians to fight against phillip

Mosaic law due to its all encompassing nature can best be characterized as a BLANK law code

Holistic

the epic of Gilgamesh teacher that

Human like is difficult and immortality is only for the gods

What was the major impact of Hyksos conquest and rule on Egyptian history

It promoted the rulers of Egypt's new kijgdom to create an empire

All of the following are correct about Byblos except

It was a perisian commercail center

Which of the following Egyptian gods was most closely associalted the with mummification of the dead

Osiris

One check on public officials held by the citizens of Athens was the ability to expel any official deemed harmful to the polish. The process was conducted by writing the name of the individual in a shard of pottery known as

Ostrakon

The free inhabitants but no citizens of Sparta and required to pay taxes and preform military service and conducted trade travel and provided economic support for Sparta were callled

Perioikoi

The exodus in the Old Testament refers to

The Hebrews fight from Egypt under guidance of moses

The physical environment of mespotamua generally led to

a pessimistic outlook with an emphasis in satisfying their angry gods

The Egyptian pyramids were

conceived and built as tombs for a city of the dead

Socrates was condemned to death for

corrupting the youth of Athens

The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw

the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.

Ancient Egyptians history is divided into BLANK major periods

3

At the battle of Thermopylae the

300 Spartans fought a noble holding action to the last man

The ancient city of Catal Huyuk was

A Neolithic intermediate civilization in modern day turkey with substantial wealth

The poetry of Sappho reflected

A women's homosexual and heterosexual feelings in a world donicbmated by males

He tradition of the hebrew stats that they were descentsants of the patriarch BLANK who had migrated from Mesopotamia

Abrahma

Which of the following best describes Greek tyrants

Absolute ruler who siezed power by force

The school in Sparta where citizen males underwent intense military training is known as

Agoge

The Neolithic period connotes the move to what kind of society

Agriculture

In Zoroastrianism the evil spirit was known as

Ahriman

An especially important cultural center with the largest library in ancient times was

Alexandria

Akhenaten wanted Egyptians to focus solely on the worship of which deity

Aten

The Athenian leader who attempted to deal with the social unrest due to dept slavery with violent and oppressive punishments such as death for all crimes was

Draco

Why was Egypt more politically stable, confident, and self-sufficient than Mesopotamia?

Egypt's geography left it isolated and protected from frequent turmoil

The Assyrian and Chaldean artrscks marked the beginning of diaspora or,

Emigration of Hebrews from Israel to other lands

The philosophical school that stressed happiness through freeing oneself from a political life to pursue pleasure was

Epicureanism

Which of the following statements about Zoroastrian is false

Eventually it progresssed to a type of polytheism

Which form of government did Aristotle adovacte

Oligarchy of middle class

Egypt's old kingdom ended for all of the following except

Foreign invasion

Neolithic farmers in the near east devoted themselves primarily o the cultivation of what types of crips

Grains

Mesopotamia was at the mercy of its

Great rivers

The following construction in Babylon is classified as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

Hanging gardens

Upon the death of Alexander

He left his empire to the best

After the death of Solomon, tensions between the northern and southern tribes led to the establishment of two kingdoms, the kingdom of ____ and the kingdom of ____.

Israel and Judah

The largest and so called "great pyramid" of Egypt was named for the king it was built for. Who was it

Khufu

The most celebrated document to survive from the reign of Hammurabi is his famous

Law code

The greatest international sea traders of the ancient near east were the

Phoenicians

The republic depicted

Plato's idea of the ideal Philosopher-King

The early Neolithic revolution saw all of the following technical developments except the

Political equality between genders

Early Egyptian pharaohs ruled and serviced their authority form the

Principle of ma'-at

The Egyptians. Beloved that the sun was protected by the god

Ra

All of the following are beloved to be developments of the Paleolithic age except

Regular predication of food through agriculturw

The cynic Diogenes used his unique sense of humor and crude behavior to mock

Societies values and lack of freedoms

In classical Greece the most famous of all Greek gracefully playwrights who authored Antigone and oedipus def was

Sophocles

One of the chief causes of the Peloponnesian War was

Sparta's fear of the power of Athens and its maritime empire

Zoeoastrianism

Stressed free will and power of humans to choose between good and evil

According to lefors the most central idea in Judaism next to monotheism is the concept of

The concenant

The Peloponnesus war resultedin

The defeat of Athens and the overall weakening of the Greek city states

The Phoenicians contributions to the near east included all but

Their defeat and destruction of the Hebrews 12 fribez

Punishments for crimes under the Code of Hammurabi

We're more severe for the lower classes

Why was God's renewal of the covenant with the Hebrews a defining moment in Jewish religious history?

With it the Hebrews had their own legally based and religiously sanctioned legal and moral code.

The most famous scientist of his era, Archimedes of Syracuse, was responsible for all of the following except

Writing elements the first formal geometry text

Stoicism

maintained that people could gain inner peace by seeking virtue and living according to nature.

The Alexandrian scholar Euclid's most famous achievement was

systematizing the study of geometry

Hellenistic Sculpture

was more emotional and realistic than clasical Greek sculpture

At the battle of marathon the Greeks

won a decisive victory by aggressive attack against a stronger foe


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