Study Guide for Chapter 2
1. What were pyramids used for? 2. What kind of government did ancient Egypt have?
3. What kind of religion did the ancient Egyptians practice? 4. What was the Rosetta Stone? 5. What were the contributions of the ancient Egyptians?
6. Why did the Egyptians look forward to the annual flooding of the Nile? 7. How could the period of the Middle Kingdom be described? 8. What was the relationship between Nubia and Egypt?
9. Most Egyptians belonged to which social class? 10. What is the Egyptian form of writing called? 11. What is the preservation of the dead through embalming and wrapping the body in linen? 12. What was the status of women in Egypt? 13. What was the more simple form of Egyptian writing for everyday use? 14. What did the Egyptians make paper out of?
15. Who undertook all the reading, writing, and record keeping in Egyptian society? 16. Who signed the world's first peace treaty with the Egyptians? 17. What led to the decline of the Old Kingdom? 18. Who donned a fake beard and proclaimed herself pharaoh? 19. During which period of Egyptian history were the pyramids built? 20. What did the Egyptians believe about the afterlife? 21. What was the capital of the Hebrews? 22. What was the Zend-Avesta? 23. What was the Phoenician product desired by monarchs?
24. What was the chief building material used the Fertile Crescent? 25. Why did the Babylonians study astrology? 26. What was the stylus? 27. What were ziggurats and who built them? 28. Who built the Hanging Gardens and why? 29. What group of people were the harsh, cruel conquerors of the Fertile Crescent? 30. Who was the leader responsible for a code of laws?
31. What was the first great civilization of the Middle East? 32. Why were the Hebrews a unique people of the Middle East? 33. What is the epic of Gilgamesh?
34. Mesopotamia is located in what present-day country? 35. Who was the ruler who united the Persian empire? 36. Who spread Middle Eastern civilization throughout the Mediterranean?
37. What kind of government did the Sumerians have? 38. What was the Sumerian form of writing called? 39. What group of people built the largest empire yet seen in the ancient world? 40. What were the contributions of thea. Egyptians
b. Sumerians c. Babylonians d. Hittites e. Assyrians f. Persians g. Phoenicians h. Hebrews
41. What city was the center of Sumerian civilization? 42. What is the arc of land that lies between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers?
43. What pharaoh tried to make Egypt monotheistic? 44. What was the purpose of the pyramids? 45. What is the capital of modern Egypt?
46. How did ancient Egyptians view their pharaohs? 47. In what direction does the Nile flow? 48. Who signed the world's first recorded peace treaty?
49. During which period of ancient Egyptian history were the pyramids built? 50. Which ruler established a library for the Assyrians?
51. Who founded a mystical religion in ancient Persia?
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