Social Science Quiz
1)
What Greek area
contained
2)
What is the Greek
word for mother city? Metropolis
3)
King Minos of the Minoans created a sea empire called what? Thalasocracy
4)
What was the
capital of
5)
Where was “
6)
Name two Greek
Dialectal patterns? Ionic and Aeolic
7)
The giant room in
a Mycenaean palace was called a ? megaron
8)
Who deciphered
Linear B text? Michael Ventris
9)
Who deciphered
Linear A text? No one
10)
Who 1st
settled on the
11)
What metal did
the Mycenaeans love to use? Gold
12)
What was the king
called of
13)
What was found on
Lefkandi? The Hero’s Tomb
14)
When were the 1st
Olympics? 776 BC
15)
What did the 1st
Olympics end? The Greek Dark Ages
16)
Uruk was a city where?
17)
The Persian Cyrus
II’s grandfather was who? Astyages
18)
Who created the
19)
Where was Tiglath-Pileser III from?
20)
Where were the
Hittites from?
21)
Who was the
Hittites nearest rival? Mittani
22)
The Kassites ruled what city for over 400 years?
23)
What were the stelae called that the Kassites
made? Kudurru
24)
Hammurabi was what number king in the 1st Dynasty of
Babylon? 6th
25)
What was the
Babylonian noble class called? Awilum
26)
What was the
Babylonian sun god called? Shamash
27)
Who founded the
last dynasty of the Sumerian kings? Ur-Nammu in 2113
BC
28)
What was the tax
called that Ur-Nammu collected from his 23 districts?
Bala tax
29)
In what period
did the earliest settlements occur in
30)
During what period
did we see the 1st writings on clay tablets? Jemdet
Period
31)
What were the 3
tiers in the Sumerian society structure called? Elite, free subjects, and
slaves
32)
What did the Hurrians found in 1550 BC? Mittani
33)
What was
34)
Who did Hatshesput co-regent with? Thutmose III
35)
In what kingdom
did she rule? Early
36)
What area did the
Hyksos rule?
37)
In what Dynasty
did they reveal the Macehead of King Scorpion? 0
38)
The
39)
The 1st
Intermediate period is claimed to have no what? Ma’at
40)
Dynasty 7 had how
many kings in how many days? 70 kings in 70 days
41)
Who was the
Egyptian god of the underworld? Osiris
42)
Why did King , Amenemhet I build his home
in Itjtowy? He wanted to see both Upper and
43)
What was produced
to show how the farmers ruled their estates? The Hekanakhte Papers
44)
When did the Hyksos begin ruling in
45)
Where was the Hyksos capital of
46)
What king drove
out the Hyksos from
47)
When did he do
this? The Early new Kingdom
48)
What king built
the 1st step pyramid at
49)
King Djoser was a king during which Dynasty? 3rd
50)
When did the 1st
Intermediate Period begin? When Pepy II died
51)
What was the genut? official records that showed
52)
Who did Thutmose
I marry to become ruler of
53)
Who warred in the
1st Pelopennesian War of 461 BC?
54)
Who attempted to
withdrawal from the Delian League, thus pleasing
55)
Why did the
56)
Who was
57)
What did
58)
What did
59)
Who built the
walls of Uruk? Gilgamesh
60)
An example of an
autocratic king who rises to power without nobility or heredity is called a?
tyrant
61)
What did Thutmose
IV do in his dreams that he used to prove he was truly a
62)
Who was the
famous Roman historian who referred to the rule of Emperor Nerva
as a combo of 2 incompatible elements: liberty and imperial rule? Tacitus
63)
What did the Elamites carry to
64)
Phoenicians were
famous for what because of their prime location on the
65)
Name 2 cities in
66)
The Gutians were from which country?
67)
Who did the Gutians attack in 2200 BC?
68)
Who led the
revolt of Roman aristocrats that deposed the last of the legendary 7 kings of
69)
The Roman Emperor
Octavian changed his name to what? Augustus
70)
What is another
name for a member of a class of serfs in ancient
71)
Who founded the
20th Dynasty of Egypt? Setnakht
72)
Name 2 cities on
the
73)
What was found in
Hierakonpolis and where is this city located? Macehead of King Scorpion and in
74)
The Peace of Nicias ended which war? Archidamian
War
75)
What Tyrian princess founded the city of ancient
76)
Mittani composed much of the present-day country of what?
77)
Which Egyptian
dynasty ended the rule of the Hittites? 19th Dynasty
78)
Where are
79)
The 1st
Punic War was fought by who?
80)
Who invaded Greek
to start the Greek Dark Ages? The Dorians
81)
The Kassite society of the 17th century BC was set
up by? tribal families
82)
The Spartan Gerousia was what? A council of elders
83)
Which Ptolemaic
ruler devised the cult of Sarapis in order to unify
84)
Which political
group were the staunchest traditional supporters of the Roman Senate? Optimates
85)
How would you
describe the rule of Draco in
86)
The Roman “corvus” was a what? A weaponized
plank on a ship
87)
Who was the financial
officer in Roman society? Quaestor
88)
The “Ten thousand
Immortals” were highly trained what? Persian and Median soldiers
89)
What ancient Elamite city is home to Cyrus I?