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Phoenicia & Persia Quizzes Review

Persia: 1) Who were the “immortals”? A) The gods B) Standing army C) the government

2) Which ruler started religious tolerance and no prisoners of war? A) B) Darius C) Cambyses D)

3) What was the first thing the Persians conquered when they started to expand the ? A) Minor B) Egypt C) Fertile D) kush E)

4) What rights do a Persian slave have? A) They have the right to be paid B) they can conduct business, own property and buy freedom C) The could have a role in government D) Both a and B

5) What modern day country did the Persians come from? A) B) C) Pakistan D) Mesopotamian

6) Who did Cyrus the great free that Nebuchadnezzar exiled? A) The Jews B) Slaves C) Artisans D)

7) What did Cyrus the Great restore that was important to the Jews after the Babylonians destroyed it? A) Persepolis. B) The Jewish Temple. C) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon D) The of Babylon

8) How long was the road that Darius built, and how many miles apart are the inns/rest stops? A) 1500 miles,12 miles apart B) 1200 miles,18 miles apart C) 1500 miles,18 miles apart

9) Why did Cambyses try to invade Kush? A) It was loaded with gold B) It had fertile land C) He wanted to take more people as slaves

10) What was the way that the Persians transported water underground?

A) Khnats B) irrigation C) leves D) canals

11) What did Darius do that was a big accomplishment of the Persians? A) He started a tribute system, a common currency, made a bridge across the Mediterranean so he could attack Greece B) He created a code of law and a library C) He created a alphabet

12) What was so great about Khnats ? A) They transported water over long distances B) they could get water to the ground and make it fertile without having to do it manually

C) they were basically seed funnels and they planted faster

13) True or false, Cyrus the Great took over land on four .

True False

14) Who eventually took over the Persians? A) Greece B) New Babylon C) Akkadian D)

15)Who was the ruler who made the Royal Road for trading purposes? A) Nebuchadnezzar B) Hammurabi C) D) Darius

16). The persians covered . ​ ​ A) North to Asia a little bit of B) Egypt and all of C) From the Mediterranean to zagros mountains

17). What is the capital of Persia?

A) Pasargad then persepolis B) Babylon then Nieveah ​

18) What is Paradaisia? A) The four-quartered walled Persian gardens B) plants on a series of stone terraces C) a famous persian ziggurat

19) Which of the following is not true? ​ ​ A) Cyrus is Cambyses’s son B) Cambyses ruled after Darius C) All of the above D) Cambyses conquered Medes

20) What was important about the gardens in pasargad? A) They were used to worship their gods B) they used much of the same flowers as we do today C) modern parks are modeled after them

21) Who was the persian’s god?

A) Ahura Mazda B) Shamash

22) What was the name of the Persian religion?

A) Zoroastrianism B) Judaism C) hebrewism D) ishtarsim

23) How did the Persians fall? A) Darius died and weak rulers followed this to civil war greeks took over B) internal conflicts made it easy for the Assyrians to take over

24) In Zorotheism did they believe in the after life?

True False

Phoenicia:

1) From which people did the Phoenicians emerge?

A)Originally the Egyptians B)cannaties C)Neo-Babylonian empire

2) What were the Phoenicians relied on for? A)Transporting goods to and connecting the ancient world B)exporting grains C)teaching the ancient world how to

3) True or false, the Phoenicians sailed to and Antarctica? False True

4)What is Phoenicia made up of? A) Towns B) -states C) Countries B) Continents

5) What Modern day countries is ancient Phoenicia in? A) Canada, Mexico B) , , Israel C) Afghanistan, Uzbekistan

6) Who rules over Phoenicia? A) Priests-kings B) The gods C) Hammurabi

7) What were the Phoenicians known as? A) Sailors B) Traders/sailors C) Shoemaker D) Farmers

8) What was charthrage? A)A that turned into a city state B) a Greek city state C) A colony of Persia

9) What did the Greeks do to the ?

A) Added constants B) added letters C) added vowels

10) What sacred tree did the Phoenicians use to make out of? A) Birch. B) Pine. C) Cedar. D) Evergreen

11)Since the Phoenicians were such good sailors, how did they navigate the ocean? A)They used the ocean currents, wind patterns, and the North Star B) They used a compass and the ocean currents.

12) What are some of the things Phoenicians exported? A) Fish, oil, , cedar, glass, cloth B) gold, , raw materials C) dictionaries for their alphabet

13) How did the Phoenicians with others? ​ A) They went to meet the traders B) They sold their sold their goods at a market C) They left their goods on the beach and went back to their to wait and see what they got.

14)Who took over the Phoenicians A) B) Sargon C) Hammurabi D) Darius

15) What did the Phoenicians do that impacted the rest of the ? A)They created a new capital. B)They created a alphabet that was much easier to read than the Egyptian hieroglyphics. C)They created the first law of code

16)Who did the Phoenicians develop from? A) The canaanites B) The carthrages C) The Egyptians

17) Greece and who else observed the key elements of the culture in a cultural discussion? A. Rome. B. Egypt. C. . D. Jews

18) How long did the Phoenicians last A) From 1,200 b.c to 600 b.c. B) 1,150 b.c to 100 b.c

19) What mountains form the eastern border of Phoenicia? A) Appalachians mountains B) Lebanon mountains C) Syrian mountains

20) Why Did the Phoenicians become traders? A) They didn’t have fertile land B) They didn’t have the materials to farm. C) Flooding caused them to lose all of their materials.