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36 Cards in this Set
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It is believed that Gudea appointed ___ as military gv of Ur
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Ur-Nammu
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Who founded Megara?
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Dorian Greeks
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Carthage expanded its empire to include what territories
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Spain, Baleares, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily
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Writers during the Silver Age of Roman lit:
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Tacictus, Petronius, Seneca
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Most significant act attributed to Menes
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setting up capital at Memphis
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In which battle did the Boeotians defeat the invading Athenians?
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Delium
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Who did Darius defeat to take the Persian throne?
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Gaumata
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Which event broke Egypt's hold on the Levant?
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Political realignment, conflict w/Mittani
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Capital of Epirus?
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Ambracia
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Which event marked the ultimate demise of the Kassite Dynasty?
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Elamite invasion in 1050 BC that sacked Babylon and carried off the Code to Susa
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Death of this king in 1550 BC led to the demise of the 17th dynasty
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Kamose`
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T/F: Ahmose finished many cult temples
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F
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Greek colonization was caused by what?
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Drought and famine
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Which greek historian classified the Bronze Age as a "cyclical alternation between periods of expansion...and contraction?"
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Oliver Dickinson
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Why did the Kings of Isin fail?
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Amorite invaders in the Fertile Crescent
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The constitutional perogatives of the patricians were known as what?
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patrium auctoritas
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This ethnic group had settlements in Mesopotamia, Syria, Akkad, and Ur during the 3000s BC
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Hurrians
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Neb's 2 front campaign was against which 2 kings?
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Necho II (Egypt) and Jehoiakim (Judah)
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Who did Rome drive out from Greece in the Syrian War?
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Antiochus III
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Why did Spartan king Cleomenes I invade Attica in 510 BC?
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prevent a rumored alliance between Hippias and Darius
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Pericles became leader of Athens after which 2 major political events
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Cimon's ostracism, Ephialtes' assassination
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Why did Sulla's march against Marius cost him many supporters?
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disapproved of his tactics, which included murder
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Egyptian culture and economy grew/shrunk during the 1st intermediate period
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grew
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This ziggurat was known as "The House of the Frontier between Heaven and Earth?"
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Etemenanki
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How did Petrie's system work?
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determined dates of events through artifacts
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What happened to Kassite during the reign of Kashtiliash IV
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lost power and became vassals of the Assyrians for 7 yrs
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In what 3 ways did the 2nd dynasty increase power?
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centralized the gvt, got $ from tax and trae, promoted belief in the god-king
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How did Crassus die?
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unsuccessful campaign against the Parthians
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How do historians know the extent of Mycenean trade at its peak?
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discovery of pottery, objects found in shipwrecks
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What was the chief of Thessaly's aristocratic families known as
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archon
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In 514 BC Who did Darius I turn his imperial ambitions toward?
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Thrace and Macedonia
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Who crowned himself King of Babylon in 721 BC
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Marduk-apla-iddin
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Invasions by which culture interrupted the trading patterns between the Aegean, Levant and Italy
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Dorians
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Who was the 1st known Greek phlosopher, what did he theorize
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Thales, world made from water
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This pupil of Thales wrote a treatise titled "On the Nature of Things"
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Anaximander
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The Hittite Kingdom was located in which modern-day country?
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Turkey
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