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Question 1

1. When the authors write that: "DNA studies suggest that Neanderthals are not directly related to modern humans", and that "Their subspecies appears to be at a dead end", they are saying that perhaps some evidence could appear someday to contradict this assumption.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 2

1. Unfortunately for the people of the late Paleolithic Era, they spent so much time on all-consuming quests to provide for the necessities of life that they had no time to develop speech, religion and artistic expression.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 3

1. 'Sedentarization' means settling down in one general area and engaging in some form of agriculture.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 4

1. The real revolutionary aspect of agriculture was not that it was 'portable' but that more people could then not have to sweat it out under the hot sun all day and could engage in non-farming activities such as too-making, pottery and weaving.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 5

1. Among the earliest religions of agricultural societies, male gods dominate, with little or no evidence of the presence of female deities. This suggests that security rather than fertility was the most important focus of society.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 6

1. Mesopotamia's organized civilization grew in large part because the administrative need to plan and mobilize labor in order to control the irrigation systems and make agriculture possible.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 7

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh describes the walls of the city of Uruk which were over five miles long and were protected by some 900 semicircular towers.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 8

1. Religious leaders in Uruk had no role in conferring legitimacy to the rulers and were not represented in the upper classes of society which were essentially all about trade and military strength.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 9

1. When it came to the status of women, civilization represented a step down for them from the time during the Neolithic period in which women enjoyed roughly the same roles and status as men.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 10

1. Government and temple administrators in Mesopotamia invented writing, not to keep track of their animals, goods and trade, but to record primarily their myths and their legal system: the Code of Hammurabi.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 11

1. Women in Egypt could own property, conduct business, enter contracts and bring lawsuits. This was possible because they were able to receive the same formal education as the males.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 12

1. Egyptian kings were believed to be divine incarnations of the gods Horus, Ra or Osiris, and their purpose as gods-on-earth was to care for their people and preserve justice and harmony.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 13

1. Egyptian kings were both controlled by as well as supported by religious tradition.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 14

1. Ramses II (1289-1224 B.C.E.) checked Hittite expansion with an overwhelming and crushing defeat of the Hittite kingdom at the Battle of Kadesh.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 15

1. Among the ancient Hebrews, unlike other less enlightened surrounding tribes, treated their women as equals to their men.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 16

1. The story of the great flood in the Hebrew Bible is both original and unique to the Hebrews.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 17

1. The Israelites took advantage of a vacuum of power between the Egyptians and the Hittites to ravage and destroy some areas of Canaan in the name of their tribal god Yahweh.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 18

1. The reason that the kingdom of Israel was formed was to consolidate the loosely organized confederation of tribes into a force capable of defeating their chief enemy the Philistines.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 19

1. The strong kingdoms of Judah and Israel were able to maintain their independence for about six hundred years under their own dynastic kings.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 20

1. It would be reasonable to claim that Tiglath-pileser used state terrorism in order to control his population and smother the likelihood of revolt.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 21

1. Tiglath-pileser combined military and religious ideology to make warfare the mission and duty of all.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 22

1. The first 'true empire', the Assyrian Empire, was noted for having built an administrative system by which they could rule over their conquered peoples.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 23

1. The city walls in the New Babylonian Empire were very strong and continually tested by would-be invaders, and in 539 B.C.E. a Persian army was battered and destroyed before the walls.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 24

1. The Babylonians would have had greater success had they just modeled their imperial system after the Assyrians.
2. True
3. False

4 points 

Question 25

1. The earliest cave paintings in Europe were produced by peoples who lived by hunting game and gathering edible plants. In this respect, they differed from humans everywhere else who lived their lives quite differently.
2. True
3. False