Ch4 Eastern Mediterranean Civilizations Exam Prep

CHAPTER 4 COASTAL CIVILIZATIONS OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (2500–800 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 01

1. An artificial mound created by centuries of human habitation on the same spot is known as a _______.

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a. tell

b. cartouche

c. mastaba

d. tholos

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 02

2. Which of the following are among the features of Minoan civilization?

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a. Large palaces built in an “agglutinative style”

b. Large palaces that functioned as population centers

c. Indoor plumbing

d. Cities that functioned independently of one another

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 03

3. What is the most famous and distinctive of all Minoan physical activities?

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a. Wrestling

b. Discus throwing

c. Bull leaping

d. Boar hunting

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 04

4. The popular idea that Minoan civilization was entirely destroyed by the volcanic explosion of the island of _______ does not stand up to our available evidence.

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a. Sicily

b. Thera

c. Cythera

d. Paros

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 05

5. Which of the following are among the features of Mycenaean civilization?

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a. Cities built on defensible hills

b. Cities fortified by massive walls

c. A lack of any kind of writing system

d. An art that emphasizes hunting and military exploits

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 06

6. The architecture of Mycenaean walls is called _______ because of the impression it left on later Greeks.

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a. “heroic”

b. “Cyclopean”

c. “Agamemnonic”

d. “Typhoean”

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 07

7. The end of the Bronze Age was marked by a widespread disruption characterized by the movements of peoples known in Egyptian records as the “_______.”

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a. Phaeacians

b. Chariot Peoples

c. Sea Peoples

d. Minyans

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 08

8. Which of the following are connections between the myth of the Minotaur and Minoan civilization?

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a. The labyrinth and the word labrys (“double axe”)

b. The remains of about sixty unburied corpses in a large room beneath the palace of Knossos

c. A recently discovered statue of the Minotaur unearthed two kilometers away from the palace of Knossos

d. The Minoan dependency on maritime commerce

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 09

9. Which of the following Indo-European people migrated from northern to southern Greece around 1100 BCE?

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a. Dorians

b. Arcadians

c. Neo-Hittites

d. Canaanites

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10. Which of the following are among the methods for creating effective iron weapons?

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a. carburizing

b. tempering

c. quenching

d. fracking

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 11

11. Which of the following are associated with the Phoenicians?

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a. Military conquests to the east and south of their homeland

b. Sea-borne commerce

c. A purple dye known as “Tyrian purple”

d. A true alphabet with twenty-two letters

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 12

12. The language of which people became a kind of lingua franca through the Near East in the Iron Age?

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a. The Phoenicians

b. The Hebrews

c. The Philistines

d. The Aramaeans

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 13

13. What is the term that designates the pact that God made with Abraham?

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a. Testament

b. Covenant

c. Monotheism

d. Judgment

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 14

14. The Hebrews’ sojourn in _______ transformed them from wandering pastoralists into settled farmers and artisans.

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a. Greece

b. Syria

c. Phoenicia

d. Egypt

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 15

15. The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are known as _______.

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a. the Talmud

b. the Torah

c. Deuteronomy

d. Leviticus

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 16

16. The most important Israelite leaders after the Exodus were the _______.

a. judges

b. queens

c. prophets

d. princes

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 17

17. Under which king did the Israelites capture Jerusalem from the Canaanites?

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a. David

b. Solomon

c. Saul

d. Shisak

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 18

18. _______ further unified the kingdom of Israel by building a temple in Jerusalem to contain the Ark of the Covenant and serve as the center of Israelite cult practices.

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a. Moses

b. David

c. Solomon

d. Saul

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 19

19. Of the peoples on this map, which one was responsible for a vast maritime commercial network?

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a. Phoenicians

b. Aramaeans

c. Philistines

d. Hebrews

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Title: Chapter 04 Question 20

20. Judging from the characteristic representation of the figures on it, this vase is _______.

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a. Mycenaean

b. Minoan

c. Akkadian

d. Phoenician