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The literal translation of Mesopotamia is...
Between Two Rivers
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The first of Mesopotamia's many civilizations was the city of...
Sumer
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The world's first epic poem was...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The massive, terraced towers of mud and rock constructed by the Mesopotamians were called...
Ziggurats
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True or False. The developers of the basic alphabet that eventually morphed into the modern Western languagers were the Phoenicians.
False. The Sumerians.
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The beginning of the Hebrew history is personified by...
Abraham
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Egyptian civilization merged along the banks of the _______ _______ in Africa.
Nile River
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The following best describes the cosmology of the ancient Egyptians in North Africa:
They viewed the world as a flat platter floating in water.
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The ______ _______ ______ vividly describes the idea of __________.
Egyptian Osiris myth. Resurrection.
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Early Egyptian tomb structures, usually single story, are...
Mastabas
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Our knowledge of Egyptian visual arts comes primarily from...
Tombs.
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Egyptian commemorative pillars are called...
Obelisks
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The musical poetry of the Egyptian New Kingdom is called...
lyric.
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In India, religion is grounded in ________, the belief in an all-pervading divine spirit.
Pantheism
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The classic language of ancient India was...
Sanskrit
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The joining of Atman (self) and Brahman results in....
Nirvana
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The occupants of the "Dragon Throne" who represented China's earliest kings were the _______ dynasty.
Shang
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Shang diviners heated ______ _____ to produce cracks the priest might then read to forecast the future?
Inscribed bones
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China's oldest known text is the _______ ___ _____.
Book of Changes
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The most ancient American urban areas were located in the modern country of the ________.
Olmecs
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The most powerful deity of the Greek pantheon was _______.
Zeus
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The early Greek city-states were forced to unite against the rising threat of the ______.
Persians
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The so-called father of history who introduced a travelogue of his trips to Egypt and Asia was...
Herodotus
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The number of surviving plays from the ancient age of Greek theater is approxiamately...
45
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The Greek pysician remembered as the father of medicine was...
Hippocrates
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The person responsible for Hellenizing North Africa and Central Asia was...
Alexander the Great
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The outstanding architectural achievement of the the Golden Age in Athens is the...
Parthenon
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The great temple of Athena in Athens uses which of the following orders?
Doric
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Greek lyrical poems of praise are called...
Odes
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Which of the following conquered the Greeks in 338 B.C.?
The Macedonians
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The ________ held that spriritual satisfaction was only possible if one renounced societal values, conventions, and material wealth.
Epicureans
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In the early history of the Italian peninsual, the ______ controlled modern-day Rome.
Latins
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The Romans fought the _________ for _______ years in the ______ ______.
Phoenicians. 150. Punic Wars.
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