Test 2

A  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

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

C  First English translator of the Torah

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

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

B  a ritual for public worship

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  contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God

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 adult and one-third child

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

A  ‘Where the sun shines always’

B  ‘Place of love and gods’

C  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

D  ‘Mud and water on land’

A  Moses

B  Akkadian

C  Enkindu

D  The “Queen of the Night”

A  storm and rain god

B  Goddess of the moon

C  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

D  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

A  The Assyrians

B  The Baskins

C  The Robbins

D  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

A  storm and rain god

B  goddess of the moon

C  goddess of grain

D  father of the gods, god of heaven

A  the goddess of the moon

B  a storm and rain god

C  the goddess of grain

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

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

B  Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.

C  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

D  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

A  Numbers

B  Exodus

C  Genesis

D  The Epic of Gilgamesh

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

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

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

B  the belief in only one god

C  a seven-branched candelabrum

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

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

B  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

C  a prayer cloth

D  A harp from Ur

A  build ships

B  create iron molds

C  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

D  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

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

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

C  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

A  The Book of the Dead

B  THe Babylonian Creation

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Code of Hammurabi

A  An early Greek sculpture

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

C  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

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

A  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

B  the first recorded laws

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

D  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

A  The Babylonian Creation

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Code of Hammurabi

A  Asseria

B  Jehovah

C  Abraham

D  Sumeria

A  “site for cremation ceremony.”

B  “home for the family of the dead.”

C  “shrine and temple.”

D  “platform for politcal speeches.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Chaldeans

B  the Phoenicians

C  the Persians

D  the Egyptians

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