All of the Following Are True of Ugarit Except That

question 10

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of Ugarit except that

• A)it had only one language.
• B)it was a thriving Mediterranean port.
• C)its cosmopolitanism made it distinctive among western Asian city-states.
• D)as a trading center, it linked ships coming from Cyprus or the Anatolian ports with land caravans heading to Babylonia.
• E)it played an important role in the spread of the alphabet.

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Definitions:

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis tentatively assumed true in the hypothesis testing procedure.

Parameter

A numerical characteristic of a population, as opposed to a statistic, which is a characteristic of a sample.

Critical Value

A threshold value in hypothesis testing, beyond which there is evidence against the null hypothesis.