THE ZIGGURAT TEMPLE HISTORY HOMEWORK

Posted: January 20th, 2023

QUESTION 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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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)