Title: Chapter 02: Ancient Religions
Course: World Religions, 2e

Q: When did the western part of the Roman Empire fall?
- 500s BCE
- 100s BCE
- 100s CE
- 400s CE
- 900s CE
A: 400s CE

Q: Of what culture was Baal a primary god?
- Israelite
- Canaanite
- Egyptian
- Babylonian
- Greek
A: Canaanite

Q: Who was the Egyptian sun god?
- Baal
- El
- Re
- Osiris
- Horus
A: Re

Q: In Babylonian mythology, who became the chief god?
- Gilgamesh
- Baal
- Tiamat
- Marduk
- Tigris
A: Marduk

Q: Who was the king responsible for the development of the influential Babylonian law code?
- Hammurabi
- Nimrud
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Alexander
- Solon
A: Hammurabi

Q: What groups fought at the Battle of Marathon?
- Greeks and Romans
- Romans and Persians
- Romans and Maccabees
- Persians and Macedonians
- Greeks and Persians
A: Greeks and Persians

Q: What are the two great rivers of Mesopotamia?
- Nile and Tigris
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Nile and Euphrates
- Jordan and Tigris
- Jordan and Nile
A: Tigris and Euphrates

Q: What were the two ancient centers of Middle Eastern civilization?
- Greece and Rome
- Palestine and Egypt
- Egypt and Mesopotamia
- Syria and Mesopotamia
- Greece and Egypt
A: Egypt and Mesopotamia

Q: What is an inscribed upright stone slab called?
- tel
- hieroglyph
- codex
- stele
- cryptogram
A: stele

Q: What are broken shards of pottery on which there is writing called?
- tel
- cryptograph
- ostraca
- papyri
- codex
A: ostraca

Q: What was the popular kind of material on which many ancient Egyptian documents were written?
- papyrus
- parchment
- codex
- ostraca
- vellum
A: papyrus

Q: What was the oldest Mesopotamian civilization?
- Babylonian
- Sumerian
- Mede
- Assyrian
- Persian
A: Sumerian

Q: What book(s) provided the Greeks with stories of many of their gods and goddesses?
- the Old and New Testament
- the Epic of Gilgamesh
- the Book of the Dead
- the Enuma Elish
- the Iliad and the Odyssey
A: the Iliad and the Odyssey

Q: What was the key to deciphering hieroglyphic writing?
- the Book of the Dead
- the Stele of Mesha
- the Rosetta Stone
- the Nag Hammadi Coptic library
- the Great Pyramid
A: the Rosetta Stone

Q: What is the theme of the Enuma Elish?
- creation
- flood
- law
- priestly ritual
- medicine
A: creation

Q: Which god was the chief opponent of the Israelite god?
- Marduk
- Baal
- El
- Aten
- Ares
A: Baal

Q: Who was the chief Greek god?
- Zeus
- Poseidon
- Apollo
- Ares
- Dionysus
A: Zeus

Q: Who was the Greek god of the underworld?
- Poseidon
- Zeus
- Hermes
- Apollo
- Hades
A: Hades

Q: What Pharaoh introduced a monotheistic religion into Egypt?
- Ramses II
- Tutankhamen
- Ptolemy I
- Akhenaten
- Amenhotep III
A: Akhenaten

Q: The Gilgamesh story tells a tale of what major event?
- creation
- escape from Egypt
- destruction of the Jerusalem temple
- epidemic
- flood
A: flood

Q: Who was the founder of the Hellenistic Empire?
- Alexander
- Zeus
- Ptolemy
- Seleucus
- Helen of Troy
A: Alexander

Q: Ugarit was the center of what culture?
- Israelite
- Canaanite
- Assyrian
- Syrian
- Sumerian
A: Canaanite