THE ZIGGURAT TEMPLE, history homework

QUESTION 1

1. Evidence from chapter two in the textbook shows that the food surpluses from the early agricultural communities of Mesopotamia were offered as tax to this institution

   THE TRADE MARKET CALLED TALIONIS

   THE ZIGGURAT TEMPLE

   THE COURT OF THE KING, KNOWN AS SHOT-AL-ARAB

12.5 points

QUESTION 2

1. Perhaps the greatest technical invention of the early Sumerian peoples in Mesopotamia was

   ARTIFICIAL CONTRACEPTION

   THE FIRE PIT

   THE WHEEL

12.5 points

QUESTION 3

1. The increasing complexity of the economies of Mesopotamia created the conditions that led to temple priests’ creation of this wedge-shaped writing system, which was applied to clay tablets

   CUNEIFORM

   HIEROGLYPHS

   STANZAS

12.5 points

QUESTION 4

1. What systematic reference was considered the greatest achievement of Mesopotamian king Hammurabi (who lived around 1,800 BC) for organizing and regulating his large empire?

   ROAD SYSTEM

   WHEEL

   LAW CODE

12.5 points

QUESTION 5

1. The textbook describes the belief system in which the gods bestowed on humans certain talents and inclinations for them to do their particular work in the society. What does the book call these divine gifts of varying talents

   SLACK

   FATE

   CHARISMA

12.5 points

QUESTION 6

1. How did the knowledge of iron smelting (heating and molding it) spread throughout the Middle East (also known as the ‘Near East’) sometime around the early-middle 2nd millennium BC when this smelting technique for iron had once been understood only by the Hittites?

   THE HITTITES MAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO ANYONE WHO ASKED AS LONG AS THE ASKER SENT $19.95 FOR POSTAGE AND HANDLING

   INDO-EUROPEAN REFUGEES TOOK THE TECHNOLOGY WITH THEM AS THEY FLED THE DYING HITTITE EMPIRE

   INDO-EUROPEAN REFUGEES TOOK THE TECHNOLOGY WITH THEM AS THEY FLED THE DYING HITTITE EMPIRE

12.5 points

QUESTION 7

1. From where did the Hebrew patriarch Abraham come before he emigrated to what would later be called the region around Syria and Israel (around 1,800 BC)?

   EGYPT [IN NORTH AFRICA]

   INDIA [IN SOUTHWEST ASIA]

   SUMER [IN MESOPOTAMIA]

12.5 points

QUESTION 8

1. According to the text, what was a key difference between the basic system of the Hammurabi code of law and the Ten Commandments of Moses?

   ONE ALLOWED THE DEATH PENALTY WHILE THE OTHER DID NOT

   ONE WAS WRITTEN IN MESOPOTAMIA WHILE THE OTHER CAME FROM CHINA

   ONE WAS “POSITIVE LAW” AND THE OTHER WAS “NEGATIVE LAW” (BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE TWO TERMS)