Exam 11: Cities, Pyramids, and Palaces

The core of Minoan and Mycenaean society was the palace.

Which of these towns may have been destroyed by a volcanic eruption?

Where is the Nile Delta found?

Hieratic was an alternative script to hieroglyphics developed during the fourth dynasty.

What was the Sed festival?

The first cities in Mesopotamia developed during the __________ period.

Where did the Minoans live?

Excavations at __________ in Mali show that urban centers predate external contact in West Africa.

What is petrographic analysis and how has it been used to track trade routes?

Most of the early cities in Mesopotamia were either within or on the edge of __________.

What role did palaces have in Aegean society?

In southern Mesopotamia, crops can be grown only with irrigation.

What is the study of the processes that affect organic remains after death?

During the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia, the __________ recorded transactions involving the exchange of land for goods.

How do archaeologists interpret Habuba Kebira?

Although warfare in between Mesopotamian city-states was common, the level of violence was limited.

Like the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys, the Nile River valley is rich in mineral resources.

This epic tale, set in the Uruk period, is known from cuneiform tablets recovered from Mesopotamia.

Originally, the great pyramid of Cheops at Giza was sheathed in a casing of polished limestone.

Most Paleolithic and Neolithic sites in southern Mesopotamia are accessible to archaeologists because they are not deeply buried.