Test Questions & Answers Ch9 Beyond Near East Greece & Rome

CHAPTER 9 CIVILIZATION BEYOND THE NEAR EAST, GREECE, AND ROME (2300–31 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 01

1. Which of the following were names given to the Scythians by various other ancient cultures?

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a. Cimmerians

b. Ashkuza

c. Mauri

d. Saka

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 02

2. Which Scythian philosopher was counted as one of the Seven Wise Men of the Greek world?

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a. Herodotus

b. Mithridates

c. Anacharsis

d. Chandragupta

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 03

3. Alexander the Great’s admiral _______ surveyed the coast between India and Persia and then wrote an account of India, some of which is preserved by the later author Arrian.

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a. Nearchus

b. Polyperchon

c. Parmenion

d. Cleitus

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 04

4. Who led a revolt against the Nanda Empire in India and founded the Mauryan Empire in the late fourth century BCE?

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a. Antiochus

b. Chandragupta

c. Menander

d. Mauryus

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 05

5. The great Mauryan king Asoka abandoned the traditional Indian Hindu religion and converted to _______.

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a. Judaism

b. Zoroastrianism

c. Buddhism

d. Mithraism

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 06

6. Which of the following are among the classes into which Parthian society was structured?

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a. hunters

b. merchants

c. nobles and priests

d. farmers and herders

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 07

7. The four-thousand-mile trade route known as the _______ was opened in 114 BCE, linking China with Parthia.

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a. “Royal Road”

b. “Silk Road”

c. “Merchants’ Path”

d. “Kerma”

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 08

8. A cursive form of the Nabataean script evolved into the _______ alphabet.

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a. Latin

b. Gothic

c. Arabic

d. Cyrillic

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 09

9. The Kushites invented an alphabet, known as the _______, in order to write their still undeciphered language.

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a. Giligammaean script

b. Lotophagic script

c. Meroïtic script

d. Tiberian script

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 10

10. The distinctive use of the cosmetic kohl is associated with which culture?

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a. Punt

b. Nasamonians

c. Scythians

d. Turditani

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 11

11. The use of hundreds of miles of foggara to access fossil water sources are especially associated with which culture?

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a. Scythians

b. Garamantes

c. Carthaginians

d. Parthians

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 12

12. According to tradition, Dido cut an oxhide into thin strips that encircled the _______, a high point that became the acropolis of Carthage.

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a. Byrsa

b. Meroë

c. Torque

d. oppidum

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 13

13. A treatise on agriculture written by the Carthaginian writer _______ was later translated into Latin and became a standard work on the subject.

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a. Himilco

b. Hanno

c. Jugurtha

d. Mago

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 14

14. Which divine couple was at the top of the Carthaginian pantheon?

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a. Astarte and Mot

b. Melqart and Tanit

c. Melqart and Astarte

d. Tanit and Ba’al Hammon

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 15

15. Some of the best-preserved Greek pottery comes not from Greece but from _______.

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a. Celtiberia

b. Etruria

c. Scythia

d. The Hallstatt Culture

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 16

16. _______ vanished from history toward the end of the sixth century BCE, perhaps because of flooding and/or Carthaginian expansion?

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a. Bactria

b. Etruria

c. Tartessus

d. Kush

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 17

17. Which of the following were cultures of inland Europe in the Bronze Age?

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a. The Únetice Culture

b. The Urnfield Culture

c. The Tumulus Culture

d. The Corded-Ware Culture

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 18

18. The distinctive use of _______ was frequent among northern European peoples for the deposit of both votive offerings and human corpses.

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a. caves

b. mountain peaks

c. trees

d. peat bogs

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 19

19. Which of the cities located on this map became the most powerful by the early third century BCE?

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a. Garama

b. Tartessus

c. Carthage

d. Meroë

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Title: Chapter 09 Question 20

20. The fact that this gold shekel depicts the goddess Tanit on one side reveals that it is a coin of the _______.

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a. Scythians

b. Carthaginians

c. Bactrians

d. Kushites