Who is credited with inventing the first written language, a system called cuneiform?

Question 1

Which artifact depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?

Rosetta Stone

Deluge Tablet

Obelisk of Ramses

Narmer Palette

3 points

Question 2

Which artifact provided the key that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Narmer Palette

Luxor obelisk

King Tut’s tomb inscriptions

Rosetta Stone

3 points

Question 3

The flux of change that we see in a culture is called

Cultural Modifications Theory

Cultural Epoch Theory

Cultural Positioning Theory

Cultural Movement Theory

3 points

Question 4

Who is credited with inventing the first written language, a system called cuneiform?

Egyptians

Greeks

Sumerians

Pharaohs

3 points

Question 5

Egypt was a __________ throughout its long history.

Democracy

Republic

Theocracy

Socialist

3 points

Question 6

Who said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose”

George Washington

Jim Elliot

Thomas Jefferson

Jim Henson

3 points

Question 7

Sumerians were from which area.

Greece

Egypt

Mesopotamia

Africa

3 points

Question 8

Known as the land between the Rivers.

Mesopotamia

Israel

Rome

Greece

3 points

Question 9

Which president said “A nation must believe in three things: It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

Lincoln

Reagan

Roosevelt

Washington

3 points

Question 10

The Egyptian temples were the first structures in the ancient world to be built entirely of _____.

Bricks

Cement

Stone

Lumber

3 points

Question 11

The Babylonian Captivity occurred closest to which date?

1010 BC

586 BC

452 BC

810 BC

3 points

Question 12

What term describes the multiple perspectives we see in Egyptian art, especially in portraying the human body?

Frontal Plane

Canon

Foreshadowing

Contrapposto

3 points

Question 13

The establishment of permanent agricultural communities marked the beginning of what?

Town

Culture

Community

Value

3 points

Question 14

Legal standards had been developed in the past but none so practical as the Code of Laws that established the rule of law from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Who was the Code of Laws named after?

Hannibal

Hammurabi

King Tut

King Darius

3 points

Question 15

Which cultures religion could be described as being pragmatic and self-serving?

Egypt

Mesopotamians

Assyrians

Greeks

3 points

Question 16

The most significant Sumerian literary work was

Venus of Willendorf

Epic of Gilgamesh

Stonehenge

Hall of Running Bulls

3 points

Question 17

Who said that “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child” when we do not have an understanding of the past?

Cicero

Cato

Goethe

Socrates

3 points

Question 18

This was perhaps the best known sculpture of Egyptian art.

Queen Nefretete

Amenhotep

Pharaoh IV

Temple of Amon

3 points

Question 19

Who wrote these words for us to live by? “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy…”

Paul

John

Pharaoh

Socrates

3 points

Question 20

The first written language was called

Cuneiform

Hieroglyphics

Phonics

Homonics

3 points

Question 21

Technology involves the manipulation of raw materials to produce some benefit.
True

False

2 points

Question 22

Egyptian culture’s life and religion were inseparable.
True

False

2 points

Question 23

Sumerian sculptures mainly used granite for their statue.
True

False

2 points

Question 24

The Iwo Jima Memorial is located in Japan, and is a tribute to their soldiers.
True

False

2 points

Question 25

The Egyptian Culture was short lived and lasted only a few centuries.
True

False

2 points

Question 26

The Egyptians did not have the technology of the wheel when they built the pyramids.
True

False

2 points

Question 27

The Egyptian Culture was very concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to segregate those who were different.
True

False

2 points

Question 28

Early Christian art showed a shepherd carrying a sheep? This symbolized their admiration for this occupation?
True

False

2 points

Question 29

The "Men of Issachar" were located in a small town in Egypt, and directed the construction of the first pyramid.
True

False

2 points

Question 30

Egyptian art depicts men and woman according to their most characteristic angle; that is the face and legs in profile but the eyes and torso as if viewed from the front.
True

False