A) Rival temples to worship war gods
B) Public cemeteries to honor war dead as heroes
C) Palaces to demonstrate the king's strength
D) Marketplaces to highlight goods from conquered territories
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A) Kush.
B) Phoenicia.
C) Persia.
D) Babylonia.
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A) Athens
B) Uruk
C) Babylon
D) Judea
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A) tides.
B) Ra.
C) the pharaoh.
D) priests.
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A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world.
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism.
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus.
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil.
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F) A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G) The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H) People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I) The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J) A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.
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A) Greece
B) Macedonia
C) The Arabian Peninsula
D) Mesopotamia
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A) Education was left up to the father.
B) Education took place in organized schools.
C) Boys and girls attended school at the local temple.
D) Education was a responsibility of both parents.
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A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world.
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism.
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus.
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil.
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F) A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G) The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H) People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I) The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J) A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.
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A) They developed settled agriculture.
B) They developed the first sun-based calendar.
C) They created the first fully phonetic alphabet.
D) They were responsible for the composition of The Iliad.
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A) Period beginning about 1100 B.C.E. when iron became the most important material for weapons and tools in some parts of the world.
B) All-powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism.
C) Sumerian form of writing; the term describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus.
D) Religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster that emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil.
E) An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
F) A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, ancient Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
G) The worship of many gods and goddesses.
H) People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who traded and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean and spread the phonetic alphabet.
I) The title given to the king of Egypt in the New Kingdom, from a word that meant "great house."
J) A proclamation issued by Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish laws regulating many aspects of life.
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A) The elaborate worship rituals were too confusing.
B) The hated and corrupt priesthood endorsed it.
C) It was imposed from above and failed to find a place among the people.
D) It attempted to do away with worship of the widely popular sun-god.
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A) It was less prone to disintegration.
B) It was more fragile and less likely to survive.
C) It required a stylus to carve the symbols.
D) It was more difficult to write on.
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A) Animal bones
B) Papyrus
C) Soft clay
D) Parchment
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A) Human actions were the result of manipulation by the gods.
B) People possessed free will and were accountable for their actions.
C) People's eternal fate was determined by the depth of their religious faith.
D) All gods embodied good and truth, whereas only humans could be hateful or evil.
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