Deck 2: Mesopotamia and the Bronze Age 6000-1200 BCE

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the early Mesopotamian cultures?

A)The Halaf Culture
B)Jemdet Nasr Culture
C)The Hassuna Culture
D)The Samarra Culture

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following are features of the city of Uruk between 4000 and 2900 BCE?

A)Rudimentary but effective indoor plumbing
B)The use of pictograms
C)A centralized administration, perhaps overseen by a priest-king
D)Long-distance commerce

Answer 2

B,C,D

Question 3

By 2900 BCE _______ had as many as 50,000 inhabitants and was the largest city in the world.

A)Uruk
B)Al-Ubaid
C)Samarra
D)Babylon

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The most representative Bronze Age cultures were defined by which of the following features?

A)Large populations
B)They were located in rich river valleys
C)Extensive exploitation of agriculture
D)Written laws to prevent aristocratic abuses

Question 5

The ancient Sumerians were ______, meaning that they believed in a multitude of gods.

A)sempiternal
B)polytheistic
C)polyglot
D)deists

Question 6

Sumerian attempts to organize and control their world are reflected in which of the following practices?

A)Placing small statues of themselves in temples
B)Hymns sung at dawn and dusk by priest-king and his retinue
C)Divination
D)The use of magical charms to compel the gods to do their bidding

Question 7

Which of the following best describes the Sumerian view of the afterlife?

A)A gathering in the sky, carrying out the will of An and Enlil
B)Essentially positive, but with eternal tortures reserved for some earthly crimes
C)A kind of purgatory, in which souls must be "cleansed" before being admitted to a paradisiacal realm
D)Essentially negative, with souls weeping eternally as they eat clay and dust

Question 8

The _______ preserves what Sumerians thought about their ancient history and also gives us an increasingly accurate record of who ruled Sumer and for how long.

A)Royal Record of Uruk
B)Damuzid Chronicle
C)Sumerian King List
D)Royal Record of Zisudra

Question 9

The Sumerian system of weights, used for bartering commodities, employed which of the following designations?

A)talent
B)mina
C)shekel
D)obol

Question 10

Sumerian slaves included which of the following categories of people?

A)War captives
B)Condemned criminals
C)Those who had been born as slaves
D)Aristocrats found guilty of any crime

Question 11

Which ruler established the first Near Eastern empire?

A)Shar-Kalli-Sharri
B)Lugal-Ane
C)Gilgamesh
D)Sargon

Question 12

Who was Enheduanna?

A)Daughter of Sargon, a priestess, and an important poet
B)The Sumerian queen of the Underworld
C)The first queen of Akkad
D)An Akkadian fertility goddess whom Naram-Sin credited with the success of his rule

Question 13

The next powerful Akkadian ruler after Sargon was _______.

A)Ebla
B)Naram-Sin
C)Enheduanna
D)Ilulu

Question 14

The supreme god of the Babylonians is the storm god ______.

A)Marduk
B)Enki
C)An
D)Tiamat

Question 15

The most powerful and influential Babylonian ruler was _______.

A)Apsu
B)Hattusili I
C)Burnaburiash II
D)Hammurabi

Question 16

Which of the following was not one of the areas covered by the Code of Hammurabi?

A)Marital laws
B)Civil cases
C)The succession of kings
D)Criminal cases

Question 17

Which of the following established a powerful and sophisticated kingdom that they called the "land of the Hatti"?

A)The Hurrians
B)The Kassites
C)The Hittites
D)The Egyptians

Question 18

Which people ruled middle and lower Mesopotamia as the Bronze Age drew to a close around 1200 BCE?

A)The Kassites
B)The Akkadians
C)The Hittites
D)The Aryans

Question 19

Is the extent of the thirteenth-century BCE Kassite kingdom, as it is represented in this map, greater, lesser, or about the same as the extent of the Akkadian empire in the third millennium BCE?

A)greater
B)lesser
C)about the same

Question 20

What is the name given to the script employed on this tablet?

A)Hieroglyphs
B)Abjad
C)Proto-alphabetic
D)Cuneiform