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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Christian Eusebius discover about Manetho's texts and the Bible?

2. What is the "Great Return"?

3. How many years does it take for the axis angle to make a full cycle oscillation across the range?

4. When is it believed that the Great Pyramid was built?

5. What is Heliopolis known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was Hipparchus the first to know about precession?

2. What theory is the focus of Chapter 51?

3. What did the ancient Egyptians mean when they believed the Sphinx guarded the "Splendid Place at the Beginning of All Time"?

4. What message did Hancock wish to send to mankind in Chapter 52?

5. Was Jane Sellers correct about the key astronomical numbers playing minor roles in the Osiris myths?

6. What explains the fluctuations in Egyptian agriculture, as explored in Chapter 46?

7. What did the founder of modern Egyptology mean in Chapter 34 when he said that the Great Pyramid's builders "thought like men 100 feet tall"?

8. What is the connection between the Mayans and modern astrologers?

9. What is eccentricity?

10. What two aspects of the Great Pyramid remain a mystery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are historical and ancient maps used throughout the book? What information do they provide, and in what cases do they disprove earlier assumptions? What is a map, and what power can it possess beyond merely providing a picture of or directions to a place?

Essay Topic 2

Why were Hancock and others so concerned with the exact dates in which things occurred, and with challenging those dates when new evidence was brought forth?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 32, the author posed the theory that the convergence of global myths and ancient stories throughout the Earth is evidence of a common author. How did he characterize this author?

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