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  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 god and one-third man

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

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

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

A  ‘Mud and water on land’

B  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

C  ‘Place of love and gods’

D  ‘Where the sun shines always’

A  Akkadian

B  The “Queen of the Night”

C  Moses

D  Enkindu

A  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

B  storm and rain god

C  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

D  Goddess of the moon

A  The Assyrians

B  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

C  The Robbins

D  The Baskins

A  goddess of the moon

B  father of the gods, god of heaven

C  storm and rain god

D  goddess of grain

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

B  a storm and rain god

C  the goddess of grain

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  Numbers

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

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  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  a belief that singing should not take place during religious services

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

C  the belief in only one god

D  a seven-branched candelabrum

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

B  a prayer cloth

C  A harp from Ur

D  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

A  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

B  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

C  create iron molds

D  build ships

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

B  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

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

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  THe Babylonian Creation

C  The Book of the Dead

D  The Epic of Gilgamesh

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  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

B  the first recorded laws

C  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

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

A  The Book of the Dead

B  The Babylonian Creation

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Code of Hammurabi

A  Jehovah

B  Abraham

C  Asseria

D  Sumeria

A  “home for the family of the dead.”

B  “shrine and temple.”

C  “platform for politcal speeches.”

D  “site for cremation ceremony.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Persians

B  the Chaldeans

C  the Phoenicians

D  the Egyptians

A  The Tigris and the Euphrates

B  The Nile and the Black Sea

C  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

D  The Caspian and the Antioch