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11/6/2014 Multiple Choice Quiz 1 CORRECT The Medes and the Persians were A) Sumerians who migrated from Mesopotamia to Persia. B) Babylonians who migrated from Mesopotamia to Persia. C) Indo-Europeans who migrated from Anatolia to Iran. D) Indo-Europeans who migrated from central Asia to Persia. E) None of these answers is correct. 2 CORRECT Which of the following descriptions is NOT correct with regard to the Medes and Persians from the tenth to the sixth century B.C.E.? A) expert agriculturalists; good at irrigation and rice cultivation B) expert archers; frequently raided the wealthy lands of Mesopotamia C) descendants of nomadic peoples; pastoralists, culturally close to the Aryans D) rulers of the largest empire the world had ever seen E) descendants of the Greeks; related to Alexander of Macedon 3 CORRECT Which of the following is true of Cyrus? A) His contemporaries called him "the Shepherd" because of the region he came from. B) His conquests laid the foundation of the first Persian empire. C) He conquered Babylon in a swift campaign. D) He ruled from his palace in Pasargadae. E) All these answers are correct. 4 CORRECT Egypt was conquered by A) Cyrus. B) Cambyses. C) Darius. D) Xerxes. E) Zarathustra. 5 CORRECT To govern a far-flung empire consisting of more than seventy distinct ethnic groups, the Achaemenid rulers A) established lines of communication and centralized administration. B) forced the peoples to speak only Persian and believe only in the Persian religion. C) used imperial spies to control the conquered masses. D) decentralized their administration. E) All these answers are correct. 6 CORRECT The Persian Royal Road stretched some 2,575 kilometers (1,600 miles) from Sardis in Lydia to Susa in Iran. To travel from one end to the other, it would take A) six months for caravans.

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