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33 Cards in this Set
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----------------'s law code:
penalties for killing someones daughter: |
Hammurabi
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Hammurabi's law code
is an example of.. |
a class based system
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Who was the king of Babylon, first half of 2nd
millennium BC |
Hammurabi
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3 properties of a
"Civilization" |
non-nomadic
agriculutral revolution specialized skills economy goverment (public buildings) writing |
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Ancient Mesopotamis
relevance to the course? |
5th c persian invasion
conquered by alexander the great roman interaction |
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what centrually was the agriculutral revolution?
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ca 9k BC
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bronze age time frame?
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ca 3000 -1200
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what does
Mesopotamia mean? |
middle-river-place
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example
of SEMITIC |
Akkadian
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example of
Indo-European |
, Hittite
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3 aspects of the nile
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agricultural flooding
transportation national unity |
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What was Egypt's
perspective to other cultrues |
"In ward looking"
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meaning of
Syncretism? |
multiplicity of divine beings
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why is an alphabet no a langue?
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because a langue can use multiple alphabets.
They arent the same thing |
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name 3 writing materials?
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stone
clay papyrus skins ostraka |
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name 4 of the 5 types of alphabets
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pictographic
phonetic syllabic "alphabet" - vowels and consonants |
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describe the evolution of the roman alphabet
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etruscan alphabet
--> latin alphabet --> Roman alphabet |
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When was level 6 of troy destroyed and by what?
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ca. 1300
earthquake right time |
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When was level 7a of troy
destroyed and what happened? |
Ca. 1200
not so impressive date is a little off |
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which civilizations were at a cross roads during the troy destruction:
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the Hitties and
Myceneans |
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Myenae
what were the 3 of the 5 important sites? |
Grave circle A/B
tholos tobs large walls |
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Mycenae
What were frequent themes in their art work? |
Military Themes
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Mycenae
What script was use and what was it used for |
Linear B
and economic distribution system |
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Mycenae
What was the myth name of the king |
Agamemnon
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Homer
how much of his work was historical |
NONE
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Homer
2 famous works and what was the style |
illiad
and odysseus epics |
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Homer
what year was he around |
700BCE
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Knossos
What script was found what was it used for |
Linear A (not Greek)
linear B (Greek) economic basis |
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Mycenaean
what time? what age? |
12th c
bronze age |
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Mycenaean
How was it ended? give 3 |
sea people
internal revolt systems collapse |
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Dark age
what age: |
1100 - 800
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Darkage
What happened? name 4 of 6 |
Destruciton of palaces
population loss use of iron migrations to asia minor loss of literacy loss of contact with the med.world |
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Archaic Age
Classical Age Hellenistic Age |
800-480
480-323 323-31BC |
