Hale Semester Test

Front 1

Region of the Middle East named for its rich soils and wheat fields.

Back 1

Mesopotamia

Front 2

Area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Back 2

Fertile Crescent

Front 3

The world first civilization developed here.

Back 3

Sumer

Front 4

The belief in many gods.

Back 4

Polytheism

Front 5

A Sumerian temple was called a

Back 5

Ziggurat

Front 6

First known written language.

Back 6

Cuneiform

Front 7

Group of people that warfare was central to their culture.

Back 7

Assyrians

Front 8

Powerful Babylonian king who help them become the dominant power in the region.

Back 8

kind nebuchnezzar

Front 9

One of the seven wonders of the world built by Nebuchadnezzar.

Back 9

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Front 10

People whose Empire stretched for 3000 miles.

Back 10

Persians

Front 11

People who developed the alphabet we use today.

Back 11

Phoenicians

Front 12

During the old Egyptian Kingdom kings were called.

Back 12

Pharaoh

Front 13

Ancient tombs for Egyptian kings

Back 13

Pyramids

Front 14

The Egyptians writing system

Back 14

Hieroglyphics

Front 15

Belief in only one God

Back 15

Monotheism

Front 16

The father of the Israelites

Back 16

Abraham

Front 17

The Jews revolted to freedom from the Egyptians by

Back 17

Moses

Front 18

the Jews establish their capital at

Back 18

Jerusalem

Front 19

When the Jews were forced from their homeland and move to different parts of the world

Back 19

Diaspora

Front 20

The earliest South Asian civilization

Back 20

Induce people

Front 21

Nomadic people that a arrived in India between 2000 BC and 1500 BC

Back 21

asyrians

Front 22

One of the world's most practiced religion says started in India

Back 22

Hinduism

Front 23

The ultimate goal in Hinduism

Back 23

Moksha

Front 24

The action of a person's life that affect his / her fate

Back 24

Karma

Front 25

Religion started by Siddhartha Gautama

Back 25

Buddhism

Front 26

Union with the universe in Buddhism

Back 26

Nirvana

Front 27

War in 1250 between Troy and mycenaeans

Back 27

Trojan War

Front 28

Much of what we know about the war comes from 2 poems

Back 28

Iliad and the Odyssey

Front 29

The Iliad and the Odyssey are written by

Back 29

Homer

Front 30

Tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers

Back 30

phalanx

Front 31

Greek city-state that revolves around the military

Back 31

Sparta

Front 32

Government by the people

Back 32

Democracy

Front 33

The Greeks believed their gods lived on

Back 33

Mount Olympus

Front 34

The most powerful God

Back 34

Zeus

Front 35

The goddess of wisdom

Back 35

athena

Front 36

Battle were over 300 Spartans fought to the death

Back 36

Thermopylae

Front 37

The war between Athens and Sparta

Back 37

Peloponnesian War

Front 38

Greek word that means lovers of wisdom

Back 38

philosophers

Front 39

The 3 greatest Greek philosophers

Back 39

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Front 40

The most famous example of Greek architecture

Back 40

Parthenon

Front 41

Greek plays that told of human suffering

Back 41

tragedies

Front 42

person who would go on to conquer most of the known world at that time

Back 42

Alexander the Great

Front 43

The blending if greek, persian, and Egyptian cultures

Back 43

hellenistic

Front 44

City in Egypt at the heart of its culture

Back 44

Alexandria

Front 45

The rich ruling class in rome

Back 45

partricians

Front 46

The basic military unit in the Roman army

Back 46

legion

Front 47

wars between rome and Carthage

Back 47

punic wars

Front 48

The Romans where nearly defeated the the carthiginian general

Back 48

Hannibal

Front 49

successful roman general named dictator

Back 49

Julius Caesar

Front 50

ceaser's grand nephew consolidated power

Back 50

octavian

Front 51

The queen of Egypt that octavian defeated

Back 51

cleopatra

Front 52

a period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire

Back 52

Pax romana

Front 53

The founder of the world largest religion

Back 53

jesus

Front 54

The world's largest religion

Back 54

Christianity

Front 55

despite who write many of the books of the new testament

Back 55

Paul

Front 56

followers of Christ were called

Back 56

Christians

Front 57

The last good roman emperor

Back 57

Marcus Aurelius

Front 58

religion made up of modern southern Mexico and central America

Back 58

Meso - America

Front 59

The earliest American civilization

Back 59

olmec

Front 60

People influenced by the olmec's

Back 60

mayans

Front 61

tribe in Peru who had huge supplies of gold

Back 61

inca

Front 62

period in Europe from 500 ad to 1500 ad

Back 62

medival

Front 63

powerful Germanic tribe that controlled western Europe

Back 63

franks

Front 64

The most powerful frankish king who revised learning

Back 64

Charlemagne

Front 65

sea raiders from Scandinavia

Back 65

vikings

Front 66

a decentralized political system that evolved in europe

Back 66

feudalism

Front 67

Warriors who protected a lords land

Back 67

knights

Front 68

These warriors lived by a code called

Back 68

chivalry

Front 69

The peasants who worked for the Lord's on thier manors

Back 69

surfs

Front 70

The most dominant force of the continent of Europe at this time

Back 70

Catholic Church