Ap World History Chapter 2 Test ANSWERS Flashcards

5690659231	Uruk	Gilgamesh was associated with what city	0
5690659232	Gilgamesh's friend	Enkidu was	1
5690659233	an explanation for the divinity of Mesopotamian kings	Which of the following subjects is not addressed in the Epic of Gilgamsh	2
5690659234	a serpent carried away the plant for immortality	In the Epic of Gilgamesh humans were not allowed to live forever because	3
5690659235	fourth millennium B.C.E.	The earliest urban societies developed in the	4
5690659236	"The land between the rivers"	The word Mesopotamia means	5
5690659237	Sumer	The first complex society developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of	6
5690659238	a language type	The word Semitic refers to	7
5690659239	Mesopotamian	Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, and Kish were all associated with	8
5690659240	ziggurat	A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid was known as a	9
5690659241	Sumer	Which of the following societies possessed the least degree of strong, centralized rule	10
5690659242	Sargon	The creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia was	11
5690659243	Hammurabi	Mesopotamian cultural and political brilliance reached its peak during the reign of	12
5690659244	Hammurabi	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"	13
5690659245	the law of retaliation that appears in Hammurabi's Code	The words lex talionis relate to	14
5690659246	social standing	While Hammurabi's code was based on the concept of lex talionis, it was also shaped by	15
5690659247	Hittites	The Babylonians eventually fell in 1595 B.C.E. to the	16
5690659248	Assyrians	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	17
5690659249	Assyrians	What Mesopotamian society built the largest empire	18
5690659250	Nebuchadnezzar	A Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century B.C.E. by	19
5690659251	Babylon	The famous hanging gardens of the ancient world were located in	20
5690659252	bronze	Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that if they alloyed copper and tin they could produce	21
5690659253	Hittites	Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the	22
5690659254	Sumerians	The first people in the world to use wheeled vehicles were the	23
5690659255	traded extensively with peoples from far away Anatolia, Egypt, and India	Evidence proves that Mesopotamians	24
5690659256	were much more pronounced than they had been during the neolithic age	Social distinctions in Mesopotamia	25
5690659257	slaves	In Mesopotamia, prisoners of war, convicted criminals, and heavily indebted individuals were the three main sources for	26
5690659258	a strict patriarchal society	Mesopotamia developed into	27
5690659259	a concern for property and family fortunes	Some scholars believe that patriarchal social orders arose because of	28
5690659260	grew increasingly worse over time	Conditions for women in Mesopotamia	29
5690659261	cuneiform	The Mesopotamian style of writing was known as	30
5690659262	Hammurabi's Code	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	31
5690659263	were mainly interested in vocational education	The Mesopotamians	32
5690659264	Abraham	The patriarch of the Hebrews was	33
5690659265	Hebrews	Ethical monotheism was in the tradition of the	34
5690659266	borrowed the concept of lex talionis from Hammurabi's Code	Hebrew law	35
5690659267	Moses	Hebrew monotheism has its origins with	36
5690659268	Phoenicians	The first simplified alphabet, containing only twenty-two letters, was created by the	37
5690659269	Egyptian	Which of the following languages is not of Indo-Europeans origin	38
5690659270	southern Russia	The original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was	39
5690659271	Hittites	The most influential ancient Indo-European migrants into southwest Asia were the	40
5690659272	Hittites	Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by the	41
5690659273	Yahweh	Hebrew God	42
5690659274	Hittites	Invented the horse-drawn chariot	43
5690659275	Sargon of Akkad	First conqueror to unite all of Mesopotamia	44
5690659276	Lex talionis	Legal principle of the law of retaliation	45
5690659277	Cuneiform	"Wedge-shaped"	46
5690659278	Indo-Europians	Helped create a shared linguistic base	47
5690659279	Phoenicians	First alphabet	48
5690659280	Assyrians	Constructed the largest empire of the Mesopotamian societies	49
5690659281	Nebuchadnezzar	Leader who led a Babylonian resurgence in the sixth century B.C.E.	50
5690659282	Moses	True founder of Hebrew Monotheism	51
5690659283	Gilgamesh	Hero of the oldest known epic	52
5690659284	Hammurabi	Powerful Babylonian king who formulated a sophisticated law code	53