Test 2

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

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

C  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

D  First English translator of the Torah

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

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

C  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

D  a ritual for public worship

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

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

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

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

A  ‘Where the sun shines always’

B  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

C  ‘Place of love and gods’

D  ‘Mud and water on land’

A  Akkadian

B  Moses

C  Enkindu

D  The “Queen of the Night”

A  storm and rain god

B  Goddess of the moon

C  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

D  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

A  The Baskins

B  The Robbins

C  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

D  The Assyrians

A  storm and rain god

B  father of the gods, god of heaven

C  goddess of grain

D  goddess of the moon

A  the goddess of grain

B  the goddess of the moon

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

D  a storm and rain god

A  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

B  Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.

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

D  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

A  Genesis

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

C  Numbers

D  Exodus

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

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

C  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

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

A  the belief in only one god

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

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

D  a seven-branched candelabrum

A  A harp from Ur

B  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

C  a prayer cloth

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

A  build ships

B  create iron molds

C  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

D  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

A  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

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

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

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

C  THe Babylonian Creation

D  The Book of the Dead

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

B  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

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

D  An early Greek sculpture

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

B  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

C  the first recorded laws

D  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Babylonian Creation

D  The Epic of Gilgamesh

A  Abraham

B  Jehovah

C  Asseria

D  Sumeria

A  “home for the family of the dead.”

B  “site for cremation ceremony.”

C  “shrine and temple.”

D  “platform for politcal speeches.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Phoenicians

B  the Chaldeans

C  the Egyptians

D  the Persians

A  The Nile and the Black Sea

B  The Caspian and the Antioch

C  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

D  The Tigris and the Euphrates