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CNE Final Exam Questions And Correct AnswersWhat spiritual reason do Egyptologists say gave the pyramids their shape? - ANSWER
So Pharoah could climb up the sides to ascend to heaven and live forever
What main stones were used in the construction of the pyramids? - ANSWER Limestone
and Granite
How many workers do they estimate it took to build the pyramids? - ANSWER
20,000-30,000
Which poets did Plato predominately quote in The Republic? - ANSWER Homer and
Hesiod
What were the three classes that the Kallipolis were to be split into? - ANSWER
Guardians, Auxiliaries, and Producers
From which class was the philosopher-king to be taken from? - ANSWER
Guardians/Rulers
What is a major conclusion about love in Ovid's Metamorphoses? - ANSWER Love is
negative
Who gets hit with Cupid's sharp golden arrow in Ovid's Metamorphoses? - ANSWER
Apollo
What was Ovid's first published work? - ANSWER The Amores
What was the very last naval battle that took place during the second Persian War? -
,ANS Battle of Salamis
What were the names of the Greek ships that made up the Navy back in 5th century BC?
- ANS Triremes
Who were the two engaged in the Battle of Aegospotami? - ANS Athens vs. Sparta
Whose image did the Scorpion Macehead bear? - ANS King Scorpion
Where in Egypt do the majority of its population live? - ANS Along the Nile
If the cross-sectional area of a steady-state fluid flow increases, what happens to the
velocity of the fluid? ANSWER Velocity decreases
Who were responsible for tracking and studying the movements of the stars and moon in
Babylonian times? ANSWER Temple Astronomers
Which astrological body did the Babylonians form their calendar around? ANSWER The
moon
Why did the Babylonians limit their zodiac to twelve constellations when it could have
been eighteen? - ANSWER So each month would correspond to one of the zodiac
constellations
What are two ways the Greeks thought one could achieve immortality? - ANSWER Either
through being granted it or through being remembered because of accomplished a
great deed
What happens to most Greek heroes? - ANSWER They meet a tragic end
, What is the biggest difference between Percy Jackson and most of the Greek heroes? -
ANSWER He decides to surrender instead of fighting for the glory
What is the story that is credited for Persia to begin attacking Egypt? - ANSWER
Cambyses wanted to marry one of Amasis' daughters and Amasis tricked him into
marrying a woman that wasn't his daughter
Name the goddess represented by cats and what she was a goddess of. Bastet and she
was the goddess of protection, pleasure and good health - ANSWER
What tactic did Cambyses use in the Battle of Pelusium? What is the significance of this
tactic? - ANSWER He had Persian soldiers push cats onto the battlefield and paint
pictures of Bastet on their shields. It was the first recorded instance of psychological
warfare
Where were the two primary cult centres of the Cult of Isis in Egypt? - ANSWER
Alexandria and Memphis
What was the theoretical main mechanism for the spread of the Cult of Isis? - ANSWER
Sailors traveling across the Mediterranean
What is the best source we have to understand the practices of the Cult of Isis? -
ANSWER Book 11 of The Golden Ass
Why was the Rosetta Stone important? - ANSWER Gave scholars a way to decipher
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
Why was the Rosetta Stone written? - ANSWER in commemoration to Ptolemy V-first
year anniversary of his reign
What a stelae? - ANSWER a piece of rock that was commonly inscribed with ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphics commemorating something or somebody
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