Chapter 2 Test - Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt - Oct 11

Question 1

What present day countries was Mesopotamia in?

Answer 1

Iraq, Iran, and Syria

Question 2

What does Mesopotamia mean?

Answer 2

Between the rivers

Question 3

Where is the fertile crescent?

Answer 3

Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 4

What kept soil fertile in Mesopotamia?

Answer 4

The constant flooding from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 5

What were some ways the Mesopotamians controlled water?

Answer 5

Dams, channels, irrigation systems

Question 6

What was Sumer?

Answer 6

The first major civilization

Question 7

How do we know the Mesopotamians had a calendar?

Answer 7

They had crop rotation

Question 8

What major invention was discovered by the Mesopotamians?

Answer 8

The wheel

Question 9

What were Mesopotamian houses made of?

Answer 9

Mud bricks

Question 10

Polytheistic Definition

Answer 10

Belief in many gods/deities

Question 11

Theocracy Definition

Answer 11

Religious leaders also lead the government

Question 12

Ziggurat Defintion

Answer 12

Large pyramid-like temple at city’s center

Question 13

What is cuniform?

Answer 13

One of the earliest known writing systems.

Question 14

What was the order of the 4 invaders of Mesopotamia?

Answer 14

Akkadians
Assyrians
Babylonians
Persians

Question 15

Who is Hammurabi?

Answer 15

Ancient Babylonian King who came up with the first written laws

Question 16

What are the laws Hammurabi created called?

Answer 16

Hammurabi’s Code

Question 17

Who led the Persian empire to take over Mesopotamia?

Answer 17

Cyrus the Great

Question 18

What leads to the building of empires?

Answer 18

Leaders taking over villiages

Question 19

Who was the first empire builder and took over Mesopotamia first?

Answer 19

Sargon of Akkad

Question 20

What did the Sargon dynasty do to continue Sumer?

Answer 20

They adopted all of the Sumerian practices and beliefs

Question 21

Where did the Sargon dynasty expand to?

Answer 21

They expanded to the persian gulf

Question 22

What is another name for Babylonians?

Answer 22

Amorites

Question 23

When do the Babylonians take power?

Answer 23

2000 BCE

Question 24

Under the Babylonians, what was the capital changed to?

Answer 24

From Ur to Babylon

Question 25

Who led the Babylonians?

Answer 25

Hammurabi

Question 26

Why do the Babylonians fall from power?

Answer 26

Hammurabi dies

Question 27

Who is after the Babylonians?

Answer 27

Hittites

Question 28

What was technology that the Hittites have?

Answer 28

They had chariots and iron tools and weapons

Question 29

What were the Hittites the first to do?

Answer 29

Smelt iron - started the iron age

Question 30

Who were after the Hittites?

Answer 30

The Assyrians

Question 31

What were the Assyrians built on?

Answer 31

Attacking neighboring groups and being a military empire

Question 32

Who was the great leader of the Assyrian Empire?

Answer 32

Sennacherib

Question 33

What was the new capital that the Assyrians instated?

Answer 33

Nineveh

Question 34

Where did the Assyrians expand to?

Answer 34

Into the fertile crescent and Egypt

Question 35

What did the Assyrians do to prevent anyone from attacking them from the previous empire?

Answer 35

They killed the remaining people and women were raped, sold int slavery, and murdered

Question 36

Who ended the Assyrian Empire?

Answer 36

The Persians

Question 37

Where was Persia?

Answer 37

More of western Asia and parts of Africa

Question 38

What were the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt?

Answer 38

The old, middle, and new kingdoms

Question 39

What is another name for the old kingdom?

Answer 39

The pyramid age

Question 40

What was the pyramids purpose?

Answer 40

to be tombs for pharaoh that should last forever

Question 41

Where are the most pyramids?

Answer 41

Giza

Question 42

Who built the pyramids?

Answer 42

slaves

Question 43

What were hieroglyphics based on?

Answer 43

Cuniform

Question 44

What two types of elements are in hieroglyphics?

Answer 44

Pictographic and alphabetical elements

Question 45

Who was set by the Pharoah to run each individual city?

Answer 45

The vizier chief minister

Question 46

Why did the Old Kingdom die out?

Answer 46

The Pharoah had spent so much money on pyramids that they had none left for the people, so there were famines and the people revolted

Question 47

What does the middle kingdom take over?

Answer 47

Nubia

Question 48

What action does the middle kingdom take to better lives of it's people?

Answer 48

It implements infastructure

Question 49

What is the cult of Osiris?

Answer 49

Osiris believed that people would enter the afterlife if they were better in the lives

Question 50

Why did the middle kingdom fall?

Answer 50

It was invaded by Hyksos from western africa

Question 51

How many years were there no rulers from the middle to new kingdoms?

Answer 51

350 years

Question 52

Where does the New kingdom expand to?

Answer 52

Mesopotamia to reach the Euphrates

Question 53

Who was King Tut's mother?

Answer 53

Nefertiti

Question 54

What did the people believe about the Pharaohh?

Answer 54

That they came from god

Question 55

What were the 4 famous Pharoahs?

Answer 55

Hatshepsut, Akhenaton, King Tut, and Ramses the second

Question 56

What is Akhenaton known for?

Answer 56

Hes Tut's father and was the first monotheist

Question 57

What Pharoah defeated the Hittites?

Answer 57

Ramses the second

Question 58

Why did the New kingdom fall?

Answer 58

After Ramses the second it was invaded by Greeks and persians