HIEU 201 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● Cuneiform
Answer: A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge
shaped stylus and clay tablets.
●● Nile River
Answer: The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered
around.
●● Lower Egypt
Answer: The northern part of ancient Egypt
●● Upper Egypt
Answer: the southern part of ancient Egypt
●● Pyramid of Giza
Answer: Is the largest man made pyramid in Egypt. 450 ft
●● Sea Peoples
, Answer: Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites
and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50
years.
●● Hortensian Law
Answer: said that all the plebians laws were binding to the patricians as
well, Created the Republic, 287 BC
●● Veto
Answer: only power given to tribune of the plebs
●● the covenant and the law
Answer: established at Mt. Sinai, produces an earthly Jerusalem which is
identified with Hagar the slave
●● Code of Hammurabi
Answer: A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first)
examples of written law in the ancient world.
●● Mycenaeans
Answer: first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated
Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.; sea traders; lived in separate city-
states; invovled in Trojan War against Troy
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● Cuneiform
Answer: A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge
shaped stylus and clay tablets.
●● Nile River
Answer: The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered
around.
●● Lower Egypt
Answer: The northern part of ancient Egypt
●● Upper Egypt
Answer: the southern part of ancient Egypt
●● Pyramid of Giza
Answer: Is the largest man made pyramid in Egypt. 450 ft
●● Sea Peoples
, Answer: Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites
and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50
years.
●● Hortensian Law
Answer: said that all the plebians laws were binding to the patricians as
well, Created the Republic, 287 BC
●● Veto
Answer: only power given to tribune of the plebs
●● the covenant and the law
Answer: established at Mt. Sinai, produces an earthly Jerusalem which is
identified with Hagar the slave
●● Code of Hammurabi
Answer: A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first)
examples of written law in the ancient world.
●● Mycenaeans
Answer: first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated
Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.; sea traders; lived in separate city-
states; invovled in Trojan War against Troy
