Iron Age Empires and Persia Chapter.5 Test Bank

CHAPTER 5 IRON AGE EMPIRES: ASSYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND PERSIA (850–500 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. Which of the following were among the challenges faced by the Assyrians?

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a. Constant famine throughout the twentieth century BCE

b. Their territory had no natural defenses

c. Their territory was situated squarely on travel routes used by invaders

d. Economic challenges created by the poorer soil of the upper Tigris valley

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. While the core of the Assyrian army was the infantry, they also assimilated the military tactics of the _______.

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a. Mycenaean Greek cavalry

b. steppe nomads

c. Mongolian horse archers

d. river valley hunter-gatherers

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. Queen Sammuramat, known in legend as the long-ruling daughter of the goddess Astarte, is more famously known by what name?

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a. Anatolia

b. Sennacherib

c. Shamsi-Adad

d. Semiramis

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. Which of the following Assyrian kings captured Samaria in 721 BCE and brought the kingdom of Israel to an end?

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a. Tilgath-Pilezer III

b. Sennacherib

c. Assur-Ubalit I

d. Sargon II

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. The only method the Assyrians had for maintaining control of their subject peoples was _______.

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a. the use of terror tactics

b. religious privileges at Assyrian temples

c. economic enticements in conquered territories

d. citizenship rights

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. Assyrian rulers are often depicted in artwork hunting what?

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a. Dragons

b. Groups of captured soldiers

c. Lions

d. Bears

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. At the peak of the Assyrian administrative organization was the _______.

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a. queen

b. king

c. chief priest

d. grand vizier

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. The Assyrians invented the concept of _______.

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a. libraries

b. top-down imperial administration

c. religious persecution

d. “total war”

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. After the death of _______ in 626 BCE, the Assyrian empire collapsed.

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a. Sargon II

b. Sennacherib

c. Gyges

d. Assurbanipal

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. What is the name of the Jewish heroine who beheaded the Babylonian general Holofernes?

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a. Judith

b. Rebekah

c. Hagar

d. Lilith

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 11

11. Which of the following are among the deeds of Nebuchadrezzar?

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a. Greatly strengthening the walls of Babylon

b. Building the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon

c. The conquest of the Lydians

d. The dedication to Ishtar of an elaborate and fortified main gate to Babylon

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 12

12. The territorial divisions of the Empire of the Medes were called what?

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a. Nomes

b. Demes

c. Parasangs

d. Satrapies

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 13

13. The Lydian empire had its capital at _______.

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a. Nineveh

b. Babylon

c. Sardis

d. Miletus

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 14

14. It was during the Saïte Dynasty that a simplified form Egyptian hieratic script known as _______ replaced hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts for official, legal, and commercial documents.

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a. Coptic

b. Aeolic

c. polyphonic

d. demotic

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 15

15. In 550 BCE the Persian king _______ defeated the Medes and in so doing created the Persian Empire.

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a. Xerxes

b. Cambyses

c. Cyrus

d. Darius

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 16

16. It was under the rule of which people that the Jews of Judaea were encouraged to purse their worship with little or no interference from government?

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a. The Persians

b. The Assyrians

c. The New Babylonians

d. The Medes

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 17

17. The Persian king Darius I developed the _______, the first large-scale road system in antiquity.

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a. Via Regis

b. King’s Path

c. Royal Road

d. ‘Pony Express’

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 18

18. Which of the following two gods comprise the dualistic religion of the Persians?

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a. Ahura Mazda

b. Marduk

c. Ahriman

d. Zoroaster

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 19

19. Is the extent of the Persian Empire, seen here, greater than, smaller than, or roughly the same size as the Assyrian Empire at its height?

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a. Greater

b. Smaller

c. Roughly the same size

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 20

20. This electrum stater comes from the _______, the very people who invented coinage in the seventh century BCE.

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a. Persians

b. Assyrians

c. Egyptians

d. Lydians