Ap World History Chapter 2 Test ANSWERS Flashcards

4610183216	Gilgamesh was associated with what city	Uruk	0
4610183217	Enkidu was	Gilgamesh's friend	1
4610183218	Which of the following subjects is not addressed in the Epic of Gilgamsh	an explanation for the divinity of Mesopotamian kings	2
4610183219	In the Epic of Gilgamesh humans were not allowed to live forever because	a serpent carried away the plant for immortality	3
4610183220	The earliest urban societies developed in the	fourth millennium B.C.E.	4
4610183221	The word Mesopotamia means	"The land between the rivers"	5
4610183222	The first complex society developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of	Sumer	6
4610183223	The word Semitic refers to	a language type	7
4610183224	Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, and Kish were all associated with	Mesopotamian	8
4610183225	A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid was known as a	ziggurat	9
4610183226	Which of the following societies possessed the least degree of strong, centralized rule	Sumer	10
4610183227	The creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia was	Sargon	11
4610183228	Mesopotamian cultural and political brilliance reached its peak during the reign of	Hammurabi	12
4610183229	What individual believed that the gods had chosen him to "provide the welfare of the people... [and] to cause justice to prevail in the land"	Hammurabi	13
4610183230	The words lex talionis relate to	the law of retaliation that appears in Hammurabi's Code	14
4610183231	While Hammurabi's code was based on the concept of lex talionis, it was also shaped by	social standing	15
4610183232	The Babylonians eventually fell in 1595 B.C.E. to the	Hittites	16
4610183233	The later Mesopotamian people who around 1000 B.C.E. built a large empire based on a powerful army with iron weapons and who made extensive use of terror were the	Assyrians	17
4610183234	What Mesopotamian society built the largest empire	Assyrians	18
4610183235	A Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century B.C.E. by	Nebuchadnezzar	19
4610183236	The famous hanging gardens of the ancient world were located in	Babylon	20
4610183237	Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that if they alloyed copper and tin they could produce	bronze	21
4610183238	Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the	Hittites	22
4610183239	The first people in the world to use wheeled vehicles were the	Sumerians	23
4610183240	Evidence proves that Mesopotamians	traded extensively with peoples from far away Anatolia, Egypt, and India	24
4610183241	Social distinctions in Mesopotamia	were much more pronounced than they had been during the neolithic age	25
4610183242	In Mesopotamia, prisoners of war, convicted criminals, and heavily indebted individuals were the three main sources for	slaves	26
4610183243	Mesopotamia developed into	a strict patriarchal society	27
4610183244	Some scholars believe that patriarchal social orders arose because of	a concern for property and family fortunes	28
4610183245	Conditions for women in Mesopotamia	grew increasingly worse over time	29
4610183246	The Mesopotamian style of writing was known as	cuneiform	30
4610183247	The statement, "If she was not careful, but was gadabout, thus neglecting her house (and) humiliating her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water," is drawn from	Hammurabi's Code	31
4610183248	The Mesopotamians	were mainly interested in vocational education	32
4610183249	The patriarch of the Hebrews was	Abraham	33
4610183250	Ethical monotheism was in the tradition of the	Hebrews	34
4610183251	Hebrew law	borrowed the concept of lex talionis from Hammurabi's Code	35
4610183252	Hebrew monotheism has its origins with	Moses	36
4610183253	The first simplified alphabet, containing only twenty-two letters, was created by the	Phoenicians	37
4610183254	Which of the following languages is not of Indo-Europeans origin	Egyptian	38
4610183255	The original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was	southern Russia	39
4610183256	The most influential ancient Indo-European migrants into southwest Asia were the	Hittites	40
4610183257	Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by the	Hittites	41
4610183258	Hebrew God	Yahweh	42
4610183259	Invented the horse-drawn chariot	Hittites	43
4610183260	First conqueror to unite all of Mesopotamia	Sargon of Akkad	44
4610183261	Legal principle of the law of retaliation	Lex talionis	45
4610183262	"Wedge-shaped"	Cuneiform	46
4610183263	Helped create a shared linguistic base	Indo-Europians	47
4610183264	First alphabet	Phoenicians	48
4610183265	Constructed the largest empire of the Mesopotamian societies	Assyrians	49
4610183266	Leader who led a Babylonian resurgence in the sixth century B.C.E.	Nebuchadnezzar	50
4610183267	True founder of Hebrew Monotheism	Moses	51
4610183268	Hero of the oldest known epic	Gilgamesh	52
4610183269	Powerful Babylonian king who formulated a sophisticated law code	Hammurabi	53