Ancient History Final Test
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A quiz I created to help me study for my Ancient History final exam.
- 1.How did the Hellenistic age emerge?
- A.
Greece and Persia signed an allience.
- B.
The Persian Wars changed the way the two cultures thought about each other.
- C.
Alexander The Great spread Greece culture to the east and the west.
- D.
The two cultures came together when the found out that they had common ancestors.
- 2.Egyptian gods were...
- A.
Anthopomorphic
- B.
Zoomorphic
- C.
Animistic
- 3.Who united Lower and Upper Egypt?
- A.
King Tut
- B.
Narmar
- C.
Assernassurpaul
- 4.In Egyptian religion what was the spirit that lead you to the after life?
- A.
Ka
- B.
Karma
- C.
Dharma
- D.
Zeus
- 5.Why did Cyrus the great bring the Persians together?
- A.
To create a unified society
- B.
To take over Meades
- C.
To make an agreement between two feuding city-states.
- 6.Which is NOT a characteristic of Zoroastranism?
- A.
The religion had an impact on Judea-Christianity
- B.
There was a good god, Ahura Mezda, and a bad god, Ahriman
- C.
Their afterlife included a final judgement
- D.
They were monotheistic
- 7.Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian god?
- A.
Re
- B.
Ra-Amon
- C.
Hor-Amon
- D.
Horus
- 8.
- A.
Ziggurats
- B.
Pyramids
- C.
Temples
- D.
Palaces
- 9.What is Pericles biggest achievement in the period of classical Greece?
- A.
He created the peace treaty between Athens and Sparta
- B.
He set the stage for the Golden Age
- C.
He was a powerful Spartan General
- D.
He was a great playwrite
- 10.Osiris, Anubis, and Isis are all...
- A.
Burial Gods
- B.
Characters in the Odyssey
- C.
Egyptian pharaohs
- D.
Constants on America's Next Top Model
- 11.What was the biggest contribution Philip made to military tactics for the Macedonians?
- A.
His innovations with chariots
- B.
His 10 feet long spears
- C.
His well organized Phalanx
- D.
New materials used to make armor
- 12.Who defeated the combined force of Thebes and Athens in the battle of Charonia?
- A.
Alexander The Great
- B.
Darius III
- C.
Philip of Macedonia
- D.
Cleon
- 13.Which pharaoh's tomb was the only pharaoh's to be found undisturbed?
- A.
Hatshepsut
- B.
Thutmoses II
- C.
Amenhotep
- D.
King Tut
- 14.True or false?Greece is located in the black sea.
- A.
True
- B.
False, it's located in the Med. sea
- 15.Alexanders generals, Ptolemy, Seleurus, and Antigonus get which empires respectively?
- A.
Greece and Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia
- B.
Persia, Egypt, Greece and Asia Minor
- C.
Egypt, Persia, Greece and Asia Minor
- D.
Persia, Greece and Asia Minor, Egyt
- 16.Hieroglyphics were developed by...
- A.
Persians
- B.
Mesopotamians
- C.
Sumarians
- D.
Egyptians
- 17.Which period in Egyptian culture is also know as the "Pyramid Age?"
- A.
Old Kingdom
- B.
New Kingdom
- C.
Middle Kingdom
- D.
1st Intermediate period
- E.
2nd Intermediate period
- 18.Which of the following is NOT a contribution of the Phoenicians?
- A.
Bow and arrows
- B.
Purple dye
- C.
The alphabet
- D.
Polytheistic religion
- E.
Navigation systems
- 19.Leonidas was the first the great general who lead 300 Spartans to Thermopaele to fight.True or false?
- A.
True
- B.
False, that was Themistocles
- 20.Who was Darius I?
- A.
An egyptian pharaoh
- B.
An athenian hero
- C.
Alexander the great's lover
- D.
A great persian general
- 21.Which of the follow rivers are where the birth place of civilization started 6,000 years ago?
- A.
The Tigris
- B.
Eurphrates
- C.
Indus
- D.
Mississippi
- 22.Who were the first true greeks?
- A.
Menoans
- B.
Athenians
- C.
Mycenaeans
- D.
Spartans
- 23.Who wrote the illiad and the odyssey?
- A.
Socrates
- B.
Homer
- C.
Plato
- D.
Aristotle
- 24.The gods in Sumer where...
- A.
Zoomorphic
- B.
Anthropomorphic
- C.
Animistic
- 25.Cuneiform was pictures that represented letters.True or false?
- A.
True
- B.
False, it represented words
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