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41 Cards in this Set
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In what region did the oldest civilization inhabit?
what was that civilization? |
Mesopotamia
Sumerian-Babylonian |
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The 2 rivers of the Fertile Crescent?
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Tigris and Euphrates
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How were the peoples of Mesopotamia governered?
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ruling class of priets and kinglike figure in city-states
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Who were the first to develop written language?
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Sumerians-cuneiform
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What was the Gilgamesh epic?
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oldest literature that tells the sotry of a king's quest to achieve immortatlity
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first law codes and impact
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Hummurabi's law code
consistent set of regulations rather thatn the arbitrary rules of a ruler |
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How was the Hammurabi's law code like?
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harsh: death
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skills of the Mespotamians
constructions |
builders and crafts people
pottery and bronze working math-base 60 number system clay ziggurats canals and dams |
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large, pyramid like temples in Mesopotamia
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ziggurats
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Egypt came about b/c of this king who united Upper and lower Egypt
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King Menes
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This group of people conquered Egypt in the MIddle Kingdom era
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Hyksos who the Egyptian rebelled aganist and expanded greatly in the New Kingdom era
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How did the New Kingdom of Egypt fall?
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disorder and foreign invasions
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What was the pharoh?
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living incarnation of the sun god
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How were Egyptian women treated?
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household finanaces and education of children
right to divorce own property |
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purpose of pyramids
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believed in life after death
tombs |
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skills of egyptians
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engineers and architects
irrigation bronze tools and weapons medicine, math, and astronomy |
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Achievments of egyptians
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papryus- paper making
365 calendar |
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the famous cities of the indus vally civilization
and was politically |
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
centralized ` |
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what was the indus valley downfall
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drying up of rivers or the erosion of soil
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importance of yellow and yantze river in early china
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agriculture, allowing movement and social and political unity
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the first and the bedrock dynasty
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Shang Dynasty
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political characteristics of shang dynasty
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warrior aristocracy
expanded its boudaries by conquest |
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Chinese system of writing
relgion |
fortune -telling and ancestor worship
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longest lasting
Warring States started Mandate of Heaven |
Zhou Dynasty
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first to establish widespread presence in Europe
close-knit tribal group who had a rich oral tradition w/ multiple gods |
the Celts
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Hittites
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first group to make use of iron weapons
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Assyrians
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horse back warfare
ruthlessness and crulty Nebuchadnezzar their leader who built the hanging gardens |
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Persians
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ruled by Cyrus the Great and known for their postal system , network or roads, single currency , decentralized form of gov't w/ satraps who rule divisions
relgion-Zoroastrianism |
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Hebrews
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first to worship one god
enslaved by the Egyptians conqered by the Assyrians |
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Phonecians and Lydians
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advanced economy w/ the export of timber on the coast of NA
imp city - CARTHAGE first true alphabet Lydians- first to have invented metal coinage as a form currency |
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impact of Greece and Rome
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lay the political and intellectual foundations of Western culture
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What emerged during the Greek Dark Ages
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common language and relgion
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formation of city-state
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b/c of rugged mountainous terrain their polis
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Sparta
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dictarship and advanced army oligarchy
slavery was too common |
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culturally and politically advanced
had a naval strength democracy women and slaves were excluded |
Athens
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this war weakened the citystates of Greece and let Alex the Great from Macedonia conquer the region
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the Peloponnesian War
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impact of Alexander the Great's conquestion
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to preserve Greek culture and spread it
crated the city of Alexandria w/ a Great Library and center of trade , learning and culture |
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Hellenism
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more secular
science was imp. celebration of life and human wrote Illiad and Odyssey |
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other philosphers of Hellenism
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Socrates and Plato
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philosopher
logic, observation and experimentation |
Aristotle
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How was the Roman Republic created?
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the romans rebelled against the ruling monarchy
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