The Religious Ritual of Burning Bones and Reading the Resulting

question 12

Multiple Choice

The religious ritual of burning bones and reading the resulting cracks were comparable to

• A)Rituals performed by Egyptian high priests.
• B)Mayan rituals.
• C)Shang-dynasty divination.
• D)Persian Zoroastrianism.
• E)Greek oracles.

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