CH. 1.5 AND 1.6 PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Megaliths are most associated with

• The ancient Phoenicians

• The ancient Hebrews

• Neolithic Europe

• The Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

The most famous example of megalithic construction is

• The Great Sphinx of Giza

• Stonehenge in England

• Hanging Gardens of Babylon

• Jewish Temple in the city of Jerusalem

All of the following are true about the Indo-Europeans except

• Their languages included Greek, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and the Germanic and Slavic tongues

• They were nomadic people who may have migrated from the region north of the Black Sea

• The traded in the Mediterranean Sea and created a phonetic alphabet

• They moved into Europe, India, and the Middle East

These people moved into Asia Minor and Anatolia around 1750 and were the first of the Info-Europeans to make use of iron.

Answer explanation

The Hittites were Indo-Europeans who used iron to construct weapons. They also borrowed significantly from Mesopotamian culture.

Match the following

• Babylonian captivity

• Their monotheistic religion influenced both Christianity and Islam

• Phoenicians

• Developed phonetic alphabet that was adopted by the Greeks

• Yahweh

• Is described in the Hebrew Bible but not all historians accept that it existed

• Hebrews

• Upper-class people from Judah were exiled to Babylonia

• United Kingdom of Israel

• The one God of the Hebrews, he created the world and everything in it.

Which of the following are not characteristics of Judaism

• Belief in one God

• Belief that God's will could be determined through divination

• Belief that God is just and good, but must be obeyed

• Belief that the Hebrews had a covenant with God

According to the Hebrew Bible, God gave the Ten Commandments to this man

Jewish people were easily amalgamated into communities of non-Jews because they were willing to adopt the gods of their conquerors and neighbors.

• True

• False

All of the following are correct about the Assyrian Empire except

• They were Into-European speaking people

• They used iron

• They had a good communication system that used relays of horses

• They had a large army that was well-disciplined and organized.

The Assyrians used terror as an instrument of warfare.

• True

• False