Ch2 Mesopotamia And The Bronze Age (6000–1200 Test Bank Docx

CHAPTER 2 MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BRONZE AGE (6000–1200 BCE)

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02 Question 01

1. Which of the following is not one of the early Mesopotamian cultures?

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a. The Halaf Culture

b. The Jemdet Nasr Culture

c. The Hassuna Culture

d. The Samarra Culture

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 02

2. Which of the following are features of the city of Uruk between 4000 and 2900 BCE?

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a. Rudimentary but effective indoor plumbing

b. The use of pictograms

c. A centralized administration, perhaps overseen by a priest-king

d. Long-distance commerce

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 03

3. By 2900 BCE _______ had as many as 50,000 inhabitants and was the largest city in the world.

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a. Uruk

b. Al-Ubaid

c. Samarra

d. Babylon

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 04

4. The most representative Bronze Age cultures were defined by which of the following features?

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a. Large populations

b. They were located in rich river valleys

c. Extensive exploitation of agriculture

d. Written laws to prevent aristocratic abuses

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 05

5. The ancient Sumerians were ______, meaning that they believed in a multitude of gods.

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a. sempiternal

b. polytheistic

c. polyglot

d. deists

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 06

6. Sumerian attempts to organize and control their world are reflected in which of the following practices?

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a. Placing small statues of themselves in temples

b. Hymns sung at dawn and dusk by priest-king and his retinue

c. Divination

d. The use of magical charms to compel the gods to do their bidding

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 07

7. Which of the following best describes the Sumerian view of the afterlife?

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a. A gathering in the sky, carrying out the will of An and Enlil

b. Essentially positive, but with eternal tortures reserved for some earthly crimes

c. A kind of purgatory, in which souls must be “cleansed” before being admitted to a paradisiacal realm

d. Essentially negative, with souls weeping eternally as they eat clay and dust

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 08

8. The _______ preserves what Sumerians thought about their ancient history and also gives us an increasingly accurate record of who ruled Sumer and for how long.

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a. Royal Record of Uruk

b. Damuzid Chronicle

c. Sumerian King List

d. Royal Record of Zisudra

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 09

9. The Sumerian system of weights, used for bartering commodities, employed which of the following designations?

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a. talent

b. mina

c. shekel

d. obol

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 10

10. Sumerian slaves included which of the following categories of people?

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a. War captives

b. Condemned criminals

c. Those who had been born as slaves

d. Aristocrats found guilty of any crime

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 11

11. Which ruler established the first Near Eastern empire?

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a. Shar-Kalli-Sharri

b. Lugal-Ane

c. Gilgamesh

d. Sargon

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 12

12. Who was Enheduanna?

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a. Daughter of Sargon, a priestess, and an important poet

b. The Sumerian queen of the Underworld

c. The first queen of Akkad

d. An Akkadian fertility goddess whom Naram-Sin credited with the success of his rule

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 13

13. The next powerful Akkadian ruler after Sargon was _______.

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a. Ebla

b. Naram-Sin

c. Enheduanna

d. Ilulu

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 14

14. The supreme god of the Babylonians is the storm god ______.

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a. Marduk

b. Enki

c. An

d. Tiamat

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 15

15. The most powerful and influential Babylonian ruler was _______.

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a. Apsu

b. Hattusili I

c. Burnaburiash II

d. Hammurabi

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 16

16. Which of the following was not one of the areas covered by the Code of Hammurabi?

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a. Marital laws

b. Civil cases

c. The succession of kings

d. Criminal cases

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 17

17. Which of the following established a powerful and sophisticated kingdom that they called the “land of the Hatti”?

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a. The Hurrians

b. The Kassites

c. The Hittites

d. The Egyptians

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 18

18. Which people ruled middle and lower Mesopotamia as the Bronze Age drew to a close around 1200 BCE?

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a. The Kassites

b. The Akkadians

c. The Hittites

d. The Aryans

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Title: Chapter 02 Question 19

19. Is the extent of the thirteenth-century BCE Kassite kingdom, as it is represented in this map, greater, lesser, or about the same as the extent of the Akkadian empire in the third millennium BCE?

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a. greater

b. lesser

c. about the same

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02 Question 20

20. What is the name given to the script employed on this tablet?

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a. Hieroglyphs

b. Abjad

c. Proto-alphabetic

d. Cuneiform