Quiz

Question 1

Ishtar

Answer 1

-was worshiped with temple prostitution

Question 2

Hammurabi

Answer 2

-Amorite king of Babylon
-Founded the First Babylonian Dynasty
-Hammurabi Stele shows him recieving his laws from either shamash or marduk
-Stele stolen by alamites
Assyria regained independence after death
-Won campaigns against the Elamites
-Ruled till 1792-1750 B.C

Question 3

Amorites

Answer 3

Fierce, semi-nomadic warriors, migrated from northern Syrian to Mesopotamia

Question 4

Babylon

Answer 4

“Gate of the Gods”

• Founded 1894 B.C.E
• Bad rep in cultural imagination because of its depiction in the bible
• Hammurabi was the king

Question 5

Mesopotamia

Answer 5

-Sumerian city-states emerged in southern -Mesopotamia between 4000-3000 BC
-several versions of the flood myth
early civilizations went into decline, and the last dynasty fell to an Elamite invasion

Question 6

Sumerians

Answer 6

-Society Extremely hierarchical

Question 7

The Sumerian King List

Answer 7

• Mixes mythology and history

- Various Sumerian cities were never united but different ones were more powerful at different times

Question 8

Ramses II

Answer 8

• Pharaoh
• Victory against the Hittites at battle of Kadesh
• Ruled into his 90’s

Question 9

Osiris

Answer 9

• Egyptian Deity

- Story between Isis and Osiris shows Egyptian’s active belief in life after death

Question 10

Isis

Answer 10

• Egyptian Deity

- Wife of Osiris

Question 11

Narmer

Answer 11

• Pharaoh
• Founder of the first Egyptian dynasty and unifier of upper and lower Egypt
• thought to either be, or be an enemy of, King Scorpion II

Question 12

Amenhotep

Answer 12

-Scandalized Egypt changing name to Akhenaten, moving capital from Thebes to Armarna, and mandating worship of Aten.

Question 13

Maat

Answer 13

• Upholder of truth, balance, order, and existence itself

- Without Maat, the universe would be reabsorbed into Nun

Question 14

Senet

Answer 14

-Board Game of the pre-dynastic period

Question 15

Akhenaten

Answer 15

• Amenhotep fake name
• Short reign
• Succeeded by nine-year-old son Tutankhaten

Question 16

hymn to the Aten

Answer 16

longest of one of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten.

Question 17

King Tut

Answer 17

• Son of Akhenaten
• Tutankhaten real name
• pressured to chang named to tutankhamun and restore the cult of old gods
• reigned 10 years

Question 18

the pyramids

Answer 18

Constructed during the Old Kingdom

Question 19

mummification

Answer 19

-Meant to preserve body until the soul could be judged in the afterlife

Question 20

Egyptian royal marriage Practices

Answer 20

• Expected to marry within the family

- Believed god Osiris married his sister Isis to keep their bloodline pure

Question 21

The minotaur

Answer 21

• half-man, half-bull that devoured sacrificial victims thrown into the labyrinth.
• Killed by theseus
• Head of a bull and body of a man

Question 22

Howard Carter

Answer 22

archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

Question 23

Hittites

Answer 23

• Lost to Ramses in Battle of Kadesh (1274)

- occupied region of Anatolia

Question 24

The Snake Goddess

Answer 24

• could show a goddess, or priestess of some kind

- depicts woman holding snake in each hand

Question 25

Cretan hieroglyphics

Answer 25

Writing system used on small portable objects like seal stones

Question 26

The santorini eruption

Answer 26

-Resulted in partial decline of the Minoan's

Question 27

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 27

German archaeologist and excavator of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns

Question 28

The legend of Troy

Answer 28

-Heinrich rediscovered ruins of troy | -

Question 29

Homer

Answer 29

- Blind poet | - Author of Iliad, & the Odyssey.

Question 30

The Sea Peoples

Answer 30

- Confederacy of tribes from diff regions of the Mediterranean - Sherden both invaders and mercenaries in Egypt

Question 31

The Odyssey

Answer 31

-Homer

Question 32

The Sherden

Answer 32

- One of the best Sea Peoples | - Invaders and mercenaries

Question 33

Ammurapi

Answer 33

last bronze age ruler and king of the ancient Syrian city of ugarit

Question 34

David and Bathsheba

Answer 34

- Committed adultery - David Impregnated Bathsheba - Nathan told David son was expected to die

Question 35

The Book of Lamentation

Answer 35

-Collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem

Question 36

The Amarna letters

Answer 36

- Written on clay tablets | - Diplomatic correspondence between the Egyptian administration and its representatives in Canaan and Amurru

Question 37

Asherah

Answer 37

mother deity worshiped in Ugarit

Question 38

El

Answer 38

The head of gods worshiped in ugarit

Question 39

Megafauna

Answer 39

- giant animals that weighed over 40 kilograms | - many speculate that worldwide spread of humans caused a mass extinction of mega fauna

Question 40

Gilgamesh

Answer 40

- King of Uruk - Part God and part man - Tale of a great flood - King's quest for fame, glory, and immortality through heroic deeds.

Question 41

Ziggurats

Answer 41

- Massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia - Temple - The ancient Sumerians, believed their gods lived in the sky. In order for the gods to hear better, you needed to get closer to them.

Question 42

The Neolithic Revolution

Answer 42

- Transition from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to settled farmers - Began around 10,000 B.C

Question 43

Cuneiform

Answer 43

- System of writing developed by ancient Sumerians | - Shape of a wedge

Question 44

Hieroglyphics

Answer 44

- Picture based writing | - People who wrote in hieroglyphs were referred to as scribes

Question 45

Old Kingdoms

Answer 45

- Great Pyramids and Sphinx - Pyramids constructed during this time - Intermediate period - Downfall included period of drought, rise to power of local rulers, expenses incurred in pyramids.

Question 46

Middle Kingdoms

Answer 46

-Intermediate period

Question 47

New Kingdoms

Answer 47

- Royal dead buried in Valley of kings | - Intermediate period