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Give the term for early Egyptian picture-writing. |
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Name the basic form of architecture—the primary form used by Mesopotamians—in which two or more vertical elements are topped by a horizontal piece. |
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What does the word Mesopotamia mean? What language is it from? |
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What descriptive name is used to identify the swath of arable land which stretched from the Persian Gulf, through Mesopotamia, to Egypt's Mediterranean coast? |
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Sumer is often credited with having invented writing, although older writing that has not yet been deciphered existed in other cultures. What is the name of the Sumerian form of writing? |
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Name the object that enabled scholars to figure out how to read the early Egyptian picture-writing referred to in the first short-answer question. |
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What is the name for the religious practice, primarily associated with Akhenaten, which involves the worship of a single god without denying the existence of other gods? |
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Name the most renowned lawgiver of Babylon. |
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Name the term for a religious system that has multiple deities. |
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Name the term for a religious system in which divinities are everywhere in nature and the universe. |
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Name the most famous piece of literature from Mesopotamia. |
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Name the Western world's first known female literary figure, who was a poet and priestess. |
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This female literary figure's best-known literary work is about a Sumerian goddess's descent into the underworld and emergence back into life. Name the goddess. |
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What famous Mesopotamian law code demands "an eye for an eye"? |
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Name a stringed musical instrument used in Mesopotamia. Our textbook shows an expensive one, adorned with a bull on its sound box, that is a highly skilled work of art. |
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How many times did Egypt have a female ruler? |
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Both the Egyptian god Ptah and the Hebrew God created using what method? |
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Give the term for an artistic set of rules. Egypt had a particularly rigid one. |
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Name the religion that originated in Persian culture. |
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Name the gods of the religion of the previous question, and what they represented. |
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