Name:
Mr. Wallace
Class: World History Date:
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Chapter 2 – Western Asia and Egypt, 3500–500 B.C. – Test
Directions: Matching. Match each item in Column A with an item in Column B. Write the correct letters
in the blanks.
COLUMN - A
COLUMN - B …….
___________1)
enabled the emergence of civilization
A) the Code of Hammurabi
___________2)
basic units of Sumerian civilization
B) the pyramids
___________3)
Semitic people living north of Sumerians
C) city-states
___________4)
a collection of laws for Mesopotamian society
D) patriarchal
___________5)
dominated by men
E) abundance of food
___________6)
believing in many gods
F) Assyrians
___________7)
built in the time of the Old Kingdom
G) Kingdom of Israel
___________8)
“ten lost tribes”
H) Akkadians
___________9)
established one of the world’s first libraries
I) polytheistic
___________10)
created the largest empire the world had yet seen and
established satrapies to administer it
J) Persians
Directions: Multiple Choice. Choose the item that best completes each sentence or answers each question. Write
the letter of the item in the blank to the left of the sentence.
___________11) A theocracy is a government in which
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a) leaders rule by divine authority.
b) the military ruled the people.
c) only women could rule.
d) a council of elders makes all the laws.
___________12) Around 2340 B.C., Sargon, the leader of the Akkadians,
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a) overran Paris, the largest city in the world at that time.
b) established the world’s first city-states and led by divine authority.
c) overran the Sumerian city-states and set up the first empire in world history.
d) choked to death on a piece of beef.
___________13) The invention of cuneiform is credited to
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a) Odysseus.
b) the Sumerians.
c) the Phoenicians.
d) the Spanish.
___________14) Modern historians have divided Egyptian history into three major periods, known as
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a) super old, old, young.
b) the Re Kingdom, the Menes Kingdom, and the Tut Kingdom.
c) Osiris, Isis, and Axum.
d) the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom.
Name:
Mr. Wallace
Class: World History Date:
Chapter 2 – Western Asia and Egypt, 3500–500 B.C. – Test
___________15) What is the importance of the Phoenician alphabet?
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a) first alphabet to use words
b) basis for English alphabet
c) had capital letters
d) could be read backwards
___________16) The religion of Judaism differed from the other religions of the time in that it
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a) was monotheistic, meaning its followers believed in one God, whereas other religions were polytheistic,
meaning their followers believed in many gods.
b) was the first religion to set down laws by which the people were to live their daily lives.
c) was polytheistic, meaning its followers believed in many gods, whereas other religions were monotheistic,
meaning their followers believed in one God.
d) had no sacred texts or books.
___________17) Ancient Israel was at the height of its power under which king?
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a) King Judah
b) King Solomon
c) King Ahab
d) King Saul
___________18) The Assyrians were especially known for
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a) establishing a monotheistic religion.
b) being wide-ranging pastoral nomads.
c) being kind to animals.
d) committing atrocities on their captives.
___________19) When Cyrus the Great captured Babylon, he
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a) killed or maimed all the donkeys so they would not run away.
b) enslaved only the old people and dispersed them among his empire.
c) showed remarkable restraint and wisdom.
d) converted all the Babylonians to Judaism.
___________20) By the time of Darius, the Persian kings had created
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a) such high taxes that loyalty to the empire began to decline.
b) so many assassination plots that the empire was weakened, leading to conquest by Genghis Khan.
c) a standing army known as the Immortals because whenever a member was killed, he was immediately
replaced.
d) hundreds of varieties of the game of checkers.
Directions: Graphics and Document-Based Questions. Choose the item that best completes each sentence or
answers each question. Write the letter of the item in the blank to the left of the sentence.
“Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament. The country’s blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a mould. Bodies
dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed, the gods have abandoned us, like migrating birds. Smoke
lies on our city like a shroud.”
—Michael Wood, Legacy: The Search for Ancient Cultures, 1995.
___________21) According to the description in the passage, what has most likely happened to this city?
a) It has been sacked and burned by an invader.
c) It has been abandoned by its people.
b) It has been resettled peacefully.
d) None of the above
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Name:
Mr. Wallace
Class: World History Date:
Chapter 2 – Western Asia and Egypt, 3500–500 B.C. – Test
“If he [the son] goes astray and does not carry out your instruction, so that his manners in your
household are wretched, and he rebels against all that you say, while his mouth runs on in the most
wretched talk, quite apart from his experience, while he possesses nothing, you should cast him off:
he is not your son at all. . . . He is one whom god has condemned in the very womb.”
—The Instruction of the Vizier Ptah-hotep, 2450 B.C.
___________22) According to the Vizier Ptah-hotep, what should a father do if his son rebels against him?
a) disown him
b) punish him
c) teach him better manners
d) None of the above
“Sons are olive plants around the table, a reward, like arrows in the hand of a hero; happy the man
who has his quiver full of them.”
—The Old Testament
___________23) According to the passage, having many sons would make a man which of the following?
a) happy
b) proud
c) a hero
d) All of the above
________________________24) According to the timeline, how many years did the Old Kingdom last?
(write your answer in the blank)
Directions: True or False. Read the following statement. Decide if you feel the statement is True or False.
Place your answer in the blank provided. Remember, if one part of the answer is
FALSE, then the entire statement is False.
___________25) Historians count down (in years) the further away you get from modern times.
(Remember what we talked about in class.)
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