Final Exam Questions

1.) What effect did geography have on the civilations that emerged in Egypt and Mesopotamia?
2.) What were some features that both the Persian and Assyrian Empires had in common?
3.) In the city-states of Ancient Mesopotamia, the economy was based on: ( ) plus ( ) and industry.
4.)Who divided the Persian Empire into satrapies, or pronvinces?
5.)Where was the site of Minoan civilization?
6.)What three factors made it possible for the emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia?
a.monotheism, cuneiforms, defensive lines
b.cities, organized governments, irrigation
c.monotheism, arranged marriages, building supplies
d.pyramids, slavery, astronomy
7.)The ( ) style of temple architecture featured slender columns with spiral-shaped capitals
a. Hellenistic
b.Doric
c.Corinthian
d.Ionic
8.)The ( ) weakened the major Greek states and destroyed any possibilty of cooperation among them:
a.Long Walls
b.The Great Peloponesian War
c.Battle of Marathon
d.Persian Wars
9.)The Athenians formed the ( ) to serve as a defensive alliance.
10.)Sparta's ( ) decided which issues to confront their assembly with.