CHAPTER TWO |
IDENTIFICATIONS--Part A Below are a number of items with which you should be familiar after reading Chapter 2. Enter your answer in the blank. Note: You must enter NUMERIC VALUES, then click your mouse anywhere outside of the input box to check your answer. |
2. The most advanced in astronomy of all ancient Mesopotamian peoples were: 1. Sumerians 2. Hittites 3. Babylonians 4. Egyptians |
3. The southernmost part of Mesopotamia, and for centuries its most advanced region was: 1. Sumer 2. Akkad 3. Indus Valley 4. Assyria |
4. Most militaristic people of ancient Mesopotamia were: 1. Akkadians 2. Hebrews 3. Kassites 4. Assyrians |
5. First people to learn the process of multiplication and division and the extraction of square and
cube roots were: 1. Hittites 2. Babylonians 3. Sumerians 4. Amorites |
6. New Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem was: 1. Nebuchadnezzer 2. Gilgamesh 3. Hammurabi 4. Nimrod |
7. Assyrian king memorable for his large library at Nineveh was: 1. Sennacherib 2. Assurabanipal 3. Sammuramat 4. Nahum |
8. People who invented the lunar calendar were: 1. Olmecs 2. Babylonians 3. Sumerians 4. Hittites |
9. Major Babylonian contribution to world literature was: 1. "Code of Hammurabi" 2. The epic of Gilgamesh 3. The Canterbury Tales 4. The Bible |
10. Sumerian terraced tower surmounted by a shrine was a: 1. library 2. mosque 3. temple 4. ziggurat |
11. Wedge-shaped writing on clay tablets was: 1. ideograms 2. heiroglyphics 3. cuneiform 4. sanskrit |
12. Babylonian promulgator of a famous ancient legal code was: 1. Hammurabi 2. Sargon 3. Joshua 4. Tukulti-Ninurta |
IDENTIFICATIONS--Part B You should also be able to identify the following terms. Click to reveal the answer and a page number in your text for more information: |
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1. "Hanging Gardens" |
2. "King of Justice" |
3. Semitic language group |
4. duodecimal system |
5. Indo-European language group |
6. Medes |
7. Amorites |
8. Kassites |
9. salinization |
CHRONOLOGY Match the development in column I with the approximate date in column II. Click the Key for the proper answer. (All dates are B.C.E.) |
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1. Period of Assyrian ascendancy | A. 1792-1750 | |
2. Fall of Babylon to the Persians | B. c. 3200 | |
3. Reign of Sennacherib | C. 3200-2000 | |
4. Old Babylonian era | D. c. 2000-c. 1600 | |
5. Reign of Hammurabi | E. 705-681 | |
6. Height of Hittite power | F. 539 | |
7. Beginning of wheeled transportation | G. 1300-612 | |
8. Sumerian era | H. 1450-1300 |