Chapter 1 – Answer Key
Multiple Choice
1. B – Africa
2. B – Caves
3. A – Kenya
4. C – Writing
5. C – Simple Pictures
6. C – Altamira in Spain
7. A – Art
8. D – pictographs
9. A – petroglyphs
10. B – ideographs
11. B – petroglyphs and pictographs
12. B – Mesopotamia
13. D – Sumerian
14. C – Writing
15. C – to keep records systematically
16. B – Blau monument
17. A – a code of laws and consequences for violating them
18. A – cattle brands
19. B – cylinder seals
20. B – latin
21. C – funerary texts
22. C – Images were inserted on separate pages opposite the text they illustrated.
23. B – identification seals
Matching
I.
1. determinatives – D
2. cartouche – F
3. hieroglyphics – C
4. homonymous – B
5. ankh – A
6. obelisk – E
II.
1. demotic – E
2. papyrus – A
3. recto – B
4. hieratic – D
5. verso – C
III.
1. ziggurat – C
2. edduba – E
3. phonograms – F
4. stele – A
5. rebus – D
6. cuneiform – B
Image Identification
I.
1. Fig. 1-1: Cave painting from Lascaux, c. 15,000–10,000 B.C.
2. Fig. 1-5: Early Sumerian pictographic tablet, c. 3100 B.C.
3. Fig. 1-16: Stele bearing the Code of Hammurabi and detail, c. 1800 B.C.
4. Fig. 1-18: Hittite cylinder seal, 1650-1200 B.C.
5. Fig. 1-22: The Rosetta Stone, c. 197–196 B.C.
6. Fig. 1-32: Vignette from Papyrus of Ani, c. 1420 B.C.
7. Figs. 1-33 and 1-34: Scarab of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti, c. 1370 B.C.
II.
1. Fig. 1-4: B – petroglyphs
2. Fig. 1-8: C – cuneiform
3. Fig. 1-29: A – hieroglyphs
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