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Mesopotamian government type |
Monarchy |
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Wheel, pump, textiles, pottery, arches, jewelry, metal-working, copper, armor, weapons, glass; technology of what ancient civilization? |
Mesopotamia |
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Sumerians, Phoenicians, Rebus Principle; language and writing of what civilization? |
Mesopotamia |
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1st system of writing |
Sumerians |
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Modern alphabet comes from what ancient alphabet? |
Phoenicians |
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Finite alphabet that represents sounds |
Rebus Principle |
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Year that Egypt united |
3100 |
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Religion of Mesopotamia |
Polytheistic |
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The phoenicians developed the ________ that is like our modern alphabet in that its finite and composed of meaningless symbols that stand for sounds to be connected to other sounds |
Rebus Principle |
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Oldest far-eastern language |
Akkadian |
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Bridge language to Hebrew spoken by the hittites |
Ugaritic |
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Arranged marriages, polygamy, indentured servants; part of what society? |
Mesopotamia |
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Who built the first pyramid? |
Djoser |
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What Egyptian writing was limited to the priesthood? |
Hieroglyphs |
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Egyptian written script for the common people |
Hieratic |
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Ancient ______ endured for over 3,000 years |
Egypt |
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Chattel and debt slaves were found in what civilization? |
Mesopotamia |
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What people developed numbers in the abstract? |
Sumerians |
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What is the same 9-digit system that we use today? |
The Indian Arabic system |
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Sumerian numbers and Indian Arabic system were from what society? |
Mesopotamia |
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Who united Egypt in 3100 BC? |
Menes |
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How many dynasties were in ancient Egypt? |
31 |
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Leaders of Egyptian dynasties |
Pharaoh |
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Balance, order, harmony, knowing one's place in society |
Ma'at |
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What society valued ma'at? |
Ancient Egypt |
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What people were isolated, had no neighbors, and shared their language with no one? |
Egypt |
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(Animals)Once common in Middle East (Syria, Jordan, etc) |
Lions |
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Misery part of human condition Misery results from search for pleasure Craving can be eliminated through control Control can be mastered through the correct path |
Buddhisms four noble truths |
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The eightfold path is from |
Buddhism |
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Who were some of the first to work with science and bring about geometry? |
Greeks |
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First to experiment with democracy |
Athens, Greece |
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Had over 1,000 city-states with rulers and kings; no unity between states |
Greece |
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City-states fought each other constantly |
Greeks |
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First poet European literature Wrote in the epic tradition |
Homer |
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Homeric Classical Koine |
Stages of Greek languages |
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Greek warriors sought to emulate |
Achilles |
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Everyone knew their place (Ma'at) and did not disrupt the social order; they did not change social order; slaves did not become free; etc. in what society? |
Egypt |
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Rome grounded their founding myth in the... |
Trojan war |
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Mathematics, building big stuff, warriors |
Romans |
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Poets and philosophers |
Greeks |
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The romans thought the Greeks were... |
Weak |
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Roughly in the late period of judges was when the ________ happened |
Trojan war |
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Arete - virtue Time - honor Kleos - eternal value to ones life Akleos - dying without fame |
Greek concepts |
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Homer wrote roughly around the same time as |
Isaiah |
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Polis (cities; more than 1,000) |
Greece |
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Self governing cities |
Greece |
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Localism, shrines, local deities |
Greece |
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Egyptian pyramids' main functions were as? |
Tombs |
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Acropolis (highest point; where the Parthenon is) |
Greece |
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Agora |
Lower point; marketplace in Greek cities |
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Built along water and trade routes |
Mesopotamians |
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Hoplite |
Individual Greek soldier |
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Phalanx |
Group of Greek soldiers |
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_______ were greatest enemy to Greeks |
Persians |
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Greeks had ______ armor and _____ shaped shields |
Bronze; bowl |
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It took 40 years on average to build a? |
Pyramid |
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When napoleon invaded Egypt, his troops uncovered? |
The Rosetta Stone |
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What was written in Greek, Demotic, and Hieroglyphics? |
The Rosetta Stone |
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Egyptian Book of spells intended for a guide of how to get through the afterlife to make it through to paradise |
Book of the dead |
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All _______ statues had God identities, but the identity of the great sphinx is unknown |
Egyptian |
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One of the oldest known cities still standing today |
Nineveh |
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_________s, ninevahs countrymen, were war-like |
Assyrians |
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Greatest mathematician of the ancient world (Greek) |
Archimedes |
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Alexander the Great fought the battle of granicus in ______ against _______ |
Troy; Persia |
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Alexander the Great defeated _________ in the battle of Issus |
Darius III |
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Alexander the Great died after what battle? |
Battle of hydaspes |
The one in which his troops erupted chaos on the Indians by causing a stampede of their elephants |
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Alexander the Great built a bridge to this island and slaughtered its people |
Tyre in the siege of tyre |
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The _______ took the oars from _______ ships and set them on fire |
Greeks; Persian |
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Persia invaded Greece in 540 BC |
The battle of marathon |
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Themistocles wanted to build a Greek... |
Navy |
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Pheidippides ran 26 miles from where to where? |
Marathon to Athens |
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In battle of Thermopylae, the new Persian king ______ ruled, and the spartan strategy was to _____ Persians |
Xerxes I; bottleneck |
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Battle with 380 Greek ships and 1,200 Persian ships |
Battle of salamis |
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The Persians were ultimately defeated thanks to ________ and were trapped in the Greek backwoods without ________ |
Themistocles; their ships |
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Alexander the Great first sacked _________, killing 6,000 and selling 30,000 into slavery |
Thebes |
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Alexander the Great spared temples and the home of poet Pindar during the ______ |
Sacking of Thebes |
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Place the following eras in historical order Neolithic Iron Age Bronze Age Paleolithic |
Paleolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age |
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What people group in ancient Mesopotamia is credited with inventing writing? |
Sumerians |
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What religious feature set the ancient Israelites apart from other middle eastern cultures? |
Monotheistic religious beliefs |
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Indebted the modern rebus based alphabet of letters |
The Phoenicians |
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Greek scientist / mathematician Author of the elements Geometry |
Euclid |
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Created the heat ray to burn ships |
Archimedes |
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Oldest known Indian civilization |
Harappan dynasty |
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Stone Brick Drainage systems Water storage Weights figurines |
Harappa |
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Early writing systems still undeciphered Wrote on trade and seals |
Harappa |
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Every Indian dialect can be traced to |
Sanskrit |
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Urban centers collapsed between 2000-1900 BC |
Harappa |
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Began 563-483 BC in India |
Buddhism |
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Came from a royal family His parents were king and Queen |
Buddha |
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Eventually driven out of India by Hinduism |
Buddhism |
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When Hosea was active in Israel and homer was writing the Trojan war, he was active in India |
Buddha |
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Considered earliest Chinese dynasty |
Shang dynasty |
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Early rulers were military chieftains and also chief priests Early palaces were built of wood |
Shang dynasty |
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Defeated by the rival Zhong kings |
Shang dynasty |
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Did not endorse equality, but opened door for social mobility |
Confucius |
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Students wrote the book of analects or the book of knowledge |
Confucius |
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Wrote no books (like Buddha) but taught |
Confucius |
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More ethical and philosophical than theological Concerned with right conduct and relationships |
Confucianism |
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