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Which of the following rulers was female?-Hammurabi

• Hatshepsut
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Amenhotep IV
• Sargon - ANSWER-Hatshepsut

"The river was easy to navigate because of a peculiar trait: Its strong

winds blew in the opposite direction of its water's flow. The winds blew down from the north, but the river flowed up from the south. This unusual feature made it easy to transport goods back and forth from the Mediterranean Sea, which lay to the north."

Which river is most likely being described in the above passage? - ANSWER-The Nile River

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According to tradition, who founded the Israelite people? - ANSWER- Abraham

A monotheistic religious practice was central to which of the following cultures?

• Sumerians
• Hebrews
• Hittites
• Babylonians
• Egyptians - ANSWER-Hebrews

— Of the cultures listed, only the Hebrews worshiped one God. The rest all practiced polytheistic religions that worshiped a host of deities.

In what modern day country is the remains of Mesopotamian civilization found? - ANSWER-Iraq — Mesopotamian civilization developed in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley, an area now controlled by Iraq.

The earliest urban settlements typically arose in what type of areas? - ANSWER-Fertile River Valleys

The outstanding achievement of King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia was that he... - ANSWER-...issued a more comprehensive law code than had any known predecessor. 2 / 4

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Which ancient culture produced "The Epic of Gilgamesh?" - ANSWER- Sumerian

Nomads - ANSWER-- People who move from place to place and follow their food sources wherever they go.

Neolithic Age - ANSWER-- This is a time period where there is the emergence of sedentary agriculture, where there are people who are learning how to domesticate both plants and animals, and live essentially in one spot, or in a very small area and grow their own food resources.

The Fertile Crescent - ANSWER-- A geographical area of river valleys in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Tigris- Euphrates valley (modern Iraq) northwest into Syria, then south along the shore of the Mediterranean sea toward the Nile River Valley in Egypt.

• The favorable conditions for agriculture afforded by these river valleys

encouraged population growth and enabled the people living in them to devote some of their time to pursuits other than raising food.

The Old Stone Age - ANSWER-(Paleolithic Age) The earliest phase of techonoligcal process where human beings lived as nomads in small communities, hunting and gathering fruits for their 3 / 4

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sustenance, and using fire and crude implements fashioned principally from stone and wood to assist in the struggle for survival.

The New Stone Age - ANSWER-(Neolithic Age) An age of cultural revolution brought about by the most recent retreat of the glaciers that covered large portions of Europe and North America in 8,000 BCE where stone tools were refined, animals were domesticated, and agriculture was developed.

Many people abandoned nomadism in favor of a settled way of life, as necessary for the practice of farming, and organized themselves in small villages.

The Bronze Age - ANSWER-In the Fertile Crescent, this age began with the appearance of cities around 3,000 BCE where individuals began to live in cities and discovered how to work metals which replaced the previous use of stone for tools.

Mesopotamia (empires in order) - ANSWER-The earliest cities arose about 3200 BCE in the Tigris-Euphrates valley, known as Mesopotamia.

Unification of the entire river-valley was desirable because it would lead to more efficient use of the river systems for agriculture, and conflict arose because one city-state was unwilling to surrender its sovereignty to another to achieve this goal.

• Sumer
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