Test 2

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

B  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

C  First English translator of the Torah

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 was two-thirds adult and one-third child

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

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

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

A  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

B  ‘Where the sun shines always’

C  ‘Mud and water on land’

D  ‘Place of love and gods’

A  Moses

B  Enkindu

C  Akkadian

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 Baskins

B  The Assyrians

C  The Robbins

D  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

A  goddess of the moon

B  goddess of grain

C  storm and rain god

D  father of the gods, god of heaven

A  a storm and rain god

B  the goddess of grain

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

D  the goddess of the moon

A  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

B  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

C  Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.

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

A  The Epic of Gilgamesh

B  Numbers

C  Exodus

D  Genesis

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

B  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

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  a belief that singing should not take place during religious services

C  a seven-branched candelabrum

D  the belief in only one god

A  A harp from Ur

B  a prayer cloth

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  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

B  build ships

C  create iron molds

D  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

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

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

C  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

A  THe Babylonian Creation

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Code of Hammurabi

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

B  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

C  An early Greek sculpture

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

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 Epic of Gilgamesh

B  The Book of the Dead

C  The Babylonian Creation

D  The Code of Hammurabi

A  Abraham

B  Sumeria

C  Asseria

D  Jehovah

A  “shrine and temple.”

B  “home for the family of the dead.”

C  “site for cremation ceremony.”

D  “platform for politcal speeches.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Persians

B  the Egyptians

C  the Chaldeans

D  the Phoenicians

A  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

B  The Caspian and the Antioch

C  The Nile and the Black Sea

D  The Tigris and the Euphrates