Global Studies Chapters 2, 5, 6, And 7

Front 1

Nile River current flowed:

Back 1

South to north

Front 2

What were the advantages of the Nile River flooding every summer?

Back 2

It left fertile soil on the banks

Front 3

Nile River used for:

Back 3

transportation and water supply

Front 4

Egyptian natural advantages:

Back 4

Climate - warm and sunny
Wind - blew north to south
Rock - for building
Deserts and Seas - protection

Front 5

Hieroglyphics were:

Back 5

Egyptian form of writing

Front 6

Provided the key to the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics:

Back 6

Rosetta Stone

Front 7

Who united Lower and Upper Egypt?

Back 7

Menes

Front 8

Pharaohs were:

Back 8

absolute rulers, considered gods

Front 9

During the Old Kingdom of Egypt

Back 9

Classes were split into lower and upper

Sphinx and the Great Pyramids were built

Front 10

Middle Kingdom:

Back 10

was the Golden Age of Egypt

Hyksos came from Asia and gained power

Front 11

New Kingdom:

Back 11

Hyksos were driven out of Egypt

pharaohs lived in Thebes

Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, and Amenhotep IV

Front 12

Amenhotep IV

Back 12

Tried to convert Egypt from polytheism to monotheism

Front 13

Egyptian Decline:

Back 13

Ramses II was the last great ruler of Egypt

Assyrians, Nubians, and Persians ended Egyptian rule

Front 14

___________ used ramps and levers to build the ____________

Back 14

Engineers -- Great Pyramids at Giza

Front 15

Egyptian number system

Egyptians developed _________ further

Back 15

based on 10

geometry

Front 16

Scribes and Clerks

Back 16

read and wrote for the government

Front 17

village Egyptian gods were based on:

_____ was the creator, while ________ judged the

Back 17

Animals


Amon --- Osiris

Front 18

Egyptian afterlife + ;

Back 18

Sacred Scale

Mummification

Tombs + treasures

Front 19

Did women have rights? (Egyptian)

Back 19

Yes

Front 20

Mesopotamia was between which two rivers?

Back 20

Tigris + Euphrates

Front 21

Sumer:

Back 21

Cuneiform
Stylus for writing
Ziggurats were step structures
Number system of 60

Front 22

Akkadian king

Back 22

Sargon

Front 23

Babylonians:

Back 23

Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi - code of laws with harsh punishments

Front 24

Babylonian Culture

Back 24

resembled Sumerian culture
Farming + trading was important
Women had property rights

Front 25

Hitites

Back 25

had law code of crime vs. punishment

Front 26

The Assyrians

Back 26

were fierce warriors who used chariots + horses

Ninevah was capital city

Front 27

Chaldeans

Back 27

Nebuchadnezzar

Hanging Gardens were rebuilt

Front 28

Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt

Back 28

Babylon

Front 29

Persians

Back 29

Darius and Xerxes
allowed conquered people to keep their religion and laws
Royal Road

Front 30

Zoroastrianism

Back 30

Persian religion - good vs. evil

Front 31

Phonecians

Back 31

sailors and sea-traders
imitated many cultures mixed together
had their own alphabet

Front 32

Lydians

Back 32

used coin money

had commodities

Front 33

Hebrews

Back 33

divided into 12 tribes of Israel

Canaan, Abraham, and Jacob

Front 34

Exodus

Back 34

Canaan came to Egypt
Moses founded the Ten Commandments

Front 35

Ten Commandments were placed:

Back 35

Ark of the Covenant

Front 36

Saul-David-Solomon

Back 36

first king - made Jerusalem holy - Israel reached its height

Front 37

Israel and Judah

Back 37

North and South

Front 38

Judaism

Back 38

Torah - first 5 books

Mosaic Law - eye for an eye

Front 39

Who developed Linear B?

Back 39

Mycenaeans

Front 40

What were metics?

Back 40

non-citizens who were free (Athens)

Front 41

Draco-Solon-Peisistratus
-Cleisthenes

Back 41

first law code-freed slaves - ruled as a tyrant - turned into democracy

Front 42

pedagogue

Back 42

male slave who taught boys manners

Front 43

Delian League

Back 43

league of city-states - Athens as leader

Front 44

Pericles

Back 44

extended Athenian empire - used Delian League treasury for benefit of Athens

Front 45

Peloponnesian War

Back 45

Sparta blocked Athen's food supply and was victorious

Front 46

Myron - Phidias

Back 46

The Discus Thrower - Zeus at Temple to Olympia

Front 47

Cynicism - Skepticism - Stoicism - Epicureanism

Back 47

people should live simply - all knowledge is uncertain - every person had a "spark" - seek pleasure, avoid pain

Front 48

Alexandria

Back 48

center of medical science

Front 49

Philip II

Back 49

made Phalanxes
Macedon

Front 50

Rome was built:

Back 50

on seven hills along the Tiber River

Front 51

consuls

Back 51

ran the government and commanded the army

Front 52

praetors

Back 52

oversaw the Roman legal system and commanded the army in war times

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censors

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registered citizens according to wealth, appointed candidates to the Senate, and oversaw the moral conduct of citizens

Front 54

assemblies

Back 54

voted on laws and elected officials

Front 55

tribunes

Back 55

had vetoing power - were elected by assemblies

Front 56

two social Roman classes

Back 56

Patricians + Plebians

Front 57

First Punic War

Back 57

boarding bridges
Carthage asked for peace - gave up Sicily and sum of money

Front 58

Second Punic War

Back 58

Hannibal was defeated by Scipio

Front 59

Third Punic War

Back 59

Rome destroyed Carthage

Front 60

First Triumvirate

the Graachi

Pax Romana

Back 60

Pompey, Crassus, Caesar

Tiberius and Gaius - reform

Begun by Augustus Caesar

Front 61

Five Good Emperors

Back 61

Nerva - Hadrian - Marcus

Front 62

Judio-Claudian Emperors

Back 62

relatives of Julius Caesar