Test 2

A  First English translator of the Torah

B  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

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

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

A  a ritual for public worship

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  contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God

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

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

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

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

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

A  ‘Mud and water on land’

B  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

C  ‘Where the sun shines always’

D  ‘Place of love and gods’

A  Enkindu

B  Akkadian

C  Moses

D  The “Queen of the Night”

A  storm and rain god

B  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

C  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

D  Goddess of the moon

A  The Robbins

B  The Assyrians

C  The Baskins

D  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

A  storm and rain god

B  goddess of the moon

C  father of the gods, god of heaven

D  goddess of grain

A  the goddess of grain

B  a storm and rain god

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

D  the goddess of the moon

A  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

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  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

A  The Epic of Gilgamesh

B  Numbers

C  Exodus

D  Genesis

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

B  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

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

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

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

B  a seven-branched candelabrum

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

D  the belief in only one god

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  create iron molds

B  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

C  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

D  build ships

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

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

C  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

A  THe Babylonian Creation

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

C  The Code of Hammurabi

D  The Book of the Dead

A  An early Greek sculpture

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

C  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

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

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

B  the first recorded laws

C  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

D  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

A  The Epic of Gilgamesh

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Babylonian Creation

D  The Code of Hammurabi

A  Abraham

B  Jehovah

C  Sumeria

D  Asseria

A  “platform for politcal speeches.”

B  “site for cremation ceremony.”

C  “shrine and temple.”

D  “home for the family of the dead.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Phoenicians

B  the Egyptians

C  the Chaldeans

D  the Persians

A  The Caspian and the Antioch

B  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

C  The Nile and the Black Sea

D  The Tigris and the Euphrates