Test 2

A  First English translator of the Torah

B  Bought the Standard of Ur at auction for 12,500,000 in 2002.

C  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

D  Translator of The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World

A  contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God

B  an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building

C  a state achieved militarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power

D  a ritual for public worship

A  The was two-thirds god and one-third lion

B  He had the head of a human and the body of a lion

C  He was two-thirds god and one-third man

D  He was two-thirds adult and one-third child

A  ‘Where the sun shines always’

B  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

C  ‘Mud and water on land’

D  ‘Place of love and gods’

A  Akkadian

B  The “Queen of the Night”

C  Moses

D  Enkindu

A  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

B  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

C  Goddess of the moon

D  storm and rain god

A  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

B  The Assyrians

C  The Robbins

D  The Baskins

A  father of the gods, god of heaven

B  goddess of the moon

C  goddess of grain

D  storm and rain god

A  the goddess of love, fertility and war; Queen of Heaven

B  the goddess of grain

C  a storm and rain god

D  the goddess of the moon

A  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

B  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

C  A double-sided wooden panel executed in shell, mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli.  It appears to commemorate a Sumerian victory.

D  Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.

A  Numbers

B  Genesis

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  Exodus

A  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

B  The height of these structure, Fiero writes symbolizes “the sacred mountain linking the realms of heaven and earth.”

C  According to Fiero “no ziggurat remains in the 21st Century and scholars now believe they might never have existed.”

D  it is often a large terraced tower of rubble and brick.

A  the belief in only one god

B  A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another

C  a seven-branched candelabrum

D  a belief that singing should not take place during religious services

A  a prayer cloth

B  A harp from Ur

C  A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer

D  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

A  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

B  create iron molds

C  build ships

D  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

A  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

B  a chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments

C  The name of the boat the Hebrews took from Egypt back to Mesopotamia

D  A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty

A  THe Babylonian Creation

B  The Code of Hammurabi

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Book of the Dead

A  An early Greek sculpture

B  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

C  a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany

D  Probably the most famous early artistic image of a human, a woman

A  the first recorded laws

B  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

C  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

D  a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Babylonian Creation

A  Sumeria

B  Asseria

C  Abraham

D  Jehovah

A  “site for cremation ceremony.”

B  “home for the family of the dead.”

C  “platform for politcal speeches.”

D  “shrine and temple.”

A  “created by God, but left in the hands of humans.”

B  “a combination of fate, free-will and destiny.”

C  “peaceful, but becomes chaotic because of greed and war.”

D  “systematically planned and invested with a preconceived moral order.”

A  the Persians

B  the Chaldeans

C  the Egyptians

D  the Phoenicians

A  The Nile and the Black Sea

B  The Caspian and the Antioch

C  The Tigris and the Euphrates

D  The Nile Delta and the Aegean