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Chapter 3 Test Review Over The Middle East, Ancient Greece, And The Assyrian Empire. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

Common to Assyrian artwork were all of the following except:
a) pictures of a peaceful and serene afterlife
b) military conquest
c) torture
d) deportations

Before making any decisions, the Assyrian king would do what?
a) consult the gods with ritual divination
b) perform a ritual human sacrifice
c) take hallucinogens to commune with the divine forces
d) take a democratic vote of all male citizens

The Assyrian ruler was
a) a king
b) a priest
c) both A and B
d) the strongest warrior of the tribe

The era of the New Kingdom in Egypt is characterized by restoration of Egyptian rule and
a) a return to isolationism
b) a military alliance with the Hittites
c) Nubian rebellion
d) expansion north into Syria and south into Nubia

The epic poem of Homer, The Iliad, related the story of a war between the Greeks and the Hittites, based in the city of:
a) Athens
b) Lydia
c) Hattusha
d) Troy

Which civilization collapsed first?
a) Minoan
b) Mycenaean
c) Hittite
d) Assyrian

Writing in Mycenaean Greece is done in what form?
a) Cuneiform
b) Oracle bones
c) Linear B
d) Runes

Although Minoan writing is undecipherable, Minoan artifacts indicate that?
a) they had widespread trade connections
b) most Minoans were illiterate
c) they disliked goods from other lands
d) they were completely isolated from the Mediterranean world

The Minoan civilization was established in?
a) southern Greece
b) the island of Crete
c) the hills of Anatolia
d) southwestern Macedonia

Transportation in western Asia was revolutionized in the Later Bronze Age by the introduction of?
a) zebra
b) ox
c) elephants
d) horses

The pharaoh Akhenaten is credited by many historians with?
a) the invention of monotheism
b) implementing political reforms that harmed the majority of Egyptians
c) permanently reforming corrupt temple priests in Egypt
d) linking his wealth to the traditional system

The Hyksos were able to conquer Egypt because they had?
a) massive armed forces from a consolidated army of the Near East
b) control of the Nile Delta region, so they could restrict irrigation to Egyptian agriculture
c) horse-drawn chariots carrying archers with composite bows
d) iron weapons

The foremost power in Anatolia (Turkey) from 1700 to 1200 B.C.E. was the
a) Hittites
b) Assyrians
c) Medes
d) Kassites

The language of diplomacy and government correspondence in the Mesopotamian regions was?
a) Aramaic
b) Egyptian
c) Kassite
d) Akkadian

The two divisions within the population of Mesopotamia were?
a) Assyrians and Sumerians
b) Assyrians and Babylonians
c) Sargonians and Ninevans
d) Sumerians and Babylonians

The Late Bronze Age in the Middle East was a cosmopolitan era because..
a) it was primarily an urban-based society
b) lifestyles were radically different from all that had gone before
c) elements of culture were widely shared
d) most civilizations adopted identical religions, laws, and social structures

Which group were the first to learn iron making?
a) Israelite
b) Minoans
c) Hittites
d) Assyrians

Who was the longest-ruling quot;builderquot; king of the New Dynasty in Egypt?
a) Ramesses II.
b) King Tut
c) Cleopatra
d) Akhenaten

Using the tactic of mass deportation of captured prisoners, the Assyrians relocated approximately how many people?
a) 500,000
b) 100,000
c) four million
d) ten million

One of the positive cultural contributions from the Assyrian empire was:
a) sharing of extensive medical knowledge
b) the Library of Ashurbanipal
c) the murals of Nineveh
d) long distance trade with central Asia

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