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  contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God

C  a ritual for public worship

D  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

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

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  The was two-thirds god and one-third lion

A  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

B  ‘Mud and water on land’

C  ‘Place of love and gods’

D  ‘Where the sun shines always’

A  Enkindu

B  Moses

C  The “Queen of the Night”

D  Akkadian

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 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

B  The Robbins

C  The Baskins

D  The Assyrians

A  goddess of the moon

B  goddess of grain

C  father of the gods, god of heaven

D  storm and rain god

A  a storm and rain god

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

C  the goddess of grain

D  the goddess of the moon

A  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

B  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

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  Genesis

B  Exodus

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  Numbers

A  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

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

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

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

A  a seven-branched candelabrum

B  the belief in only one god

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

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

A  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

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

C  A harp from Ur

D  a prayer cloth

A  create iron molds

B  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

C  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

D  build ships

A  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

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

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 Book of the Dead

B  THe Babylonian Creation

C  The Code of Hammurabi

D  The Epic of Gilgamesh

A  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

B  An early Greek sculpture

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

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

A  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

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

C  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

D  the first recorded laws

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  The Babylonian Creation

C  The Epic of Gilgamesh

D  The Book of the Dead

A  Asseria

B  Sumeria

C  Jehovah

D  Abraham

A  “site for cremation ceremony.”

B  “home for the family of the dead.”

C  “platform for politcal speeches.”

D  “shrine and temple.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Phoenicians

B  the Persians

C  the Chaldeans

D  the Egyptians

A  The Nile and the Black Sea

B  The Caspian and the Antioch

C  The Tigris and the Euphrates

D  The Nile Delta and the Aegean