Test 2

A  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

B  First English translator of the Torah

C  Bought the Standard of Ur at auction for 12,500,000 in 2002.

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  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  The was two-thirds god and one-third lion

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

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

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

A  ‘Mud and water on land’

B  ‘Place of love and gods’

C  ‘Where the sun shines always’

D  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

A  Akkadian

B  The “Queen of the Night”

C  Enkindu

D  Moses

A  Goddess of the moon

B  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

C  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

D  storm and rain god

A  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

B  The Robbins

C  The Baskins

D  The Assyrians

A  father of the gods, god of heaven

B  goddess of grain

C  goddess of the moon

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 the moon

D  the goddess of grain

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  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

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

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

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

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

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 seven-branched candelabrum

A  A harp from Ur

B  a prayer cloth

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

D  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

A  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

B  build ships

C  create iron molds

D  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

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

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

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

D  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

A  The Book of the Dead

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

C  The Code of Hammurabi

D  THe Babylonian Creation

A  An early Greek sculpture

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

C  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

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

A  the first recorded laws

B  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

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

D  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

A  The Epic of Gilgamesh

B  The Code of Hammurabi

C  The Book of the Dead

D  The Babylonian Creation

A  Abraham

B  Jehovah

C  Asseria

D  Sumeria

A  “platform for politcal speeches.”

B  “site for cremation ceremony.”

C  “shrine and temple.”

D  “home for the family of the dead.”

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

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

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

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

A  the Egyptians

B  the Persians

C  the Phoenicians

D  the Chaldeans

A  The Tigris and the Euphrates

B  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

C  The Caspian and the Antioch

D  The Nile and the Black Sea