Western Civ Quizzes

Revolutionary development around 10,000 B.C.E. resulting in village life.

Farming and agriculture

Babylonian king who issued an early code of written laws during the 18th cen. B.C.E.

Hammurabi

3rd millenium B.C.E. Mesopotamian ruler who conquered Akkadian cities along the Euphrates while boasting of his humble background. 

Sargon

Euphrates

Persian

Tigris

Babylon

The earliest examples of civilized societies have been found in the Nile river valley and the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys of this region.

Mesopotamia

Egyptian pharaoh, also known as Akhenaton, who adopted a form of monotheism during the 14th cen. B.C.E.

Amenhotep IV

New Kingdom female Egyptian pharaoh whose twenty year reign featured the successful conquest of Nubia and her official depiction with traditional male features.

Hatshepsut

Nile

7th cen. B.C.E. Assyrian ruler famous for wrestling lions and assembling a library containing some 30,000 ancient texts.

Ashurbanipal

The Hebrew religion...

taught there was a covenant between the Hebrews and Yahweh.

believed in an omnipotent God, Yahweh.

was an ethical religion centered around the Ten Commandments.

 All of these

Our alphabet can be traced to this ancient Middle Eastern people.

Phoenecians

Identify the correct order from earliest to latest in time:

Assyrian-Hittite-Babylonian-Chaldean

Babylonian-Hittite-Assyrian-Chaldean

Aegean Sea

Red Sea

Carthage Sea

6th cen. B.C.E. Greek leader known as the "father of Athenian democracy" for instituting reforms such as the demes system.

Cleisthenes

The two most important Greek city states.

Athens and Sparta

Athens