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dates of Sumer |
3500 BC - 2400 BC |
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dates of Akkadian Interlude |
2400 BC - 2300BC |
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dates of Babylonia |
2300BC - 1500BC |
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dates of Hittites |
1600 BC - 1200 BC |
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dates of Power Vacuum (Hebrews) |
1200 BC- 900 BC |
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dates of Assyrians |
900 BC - 612 BC |
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dates of Neo-Babylonians |
612 BC - 540 BC |
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dates of Medes |
710 BC - 550 BC |
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dates of Persians |
550 BC - 330 BC |
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"The ancient world was a ___ and ___ place compared to our world today." |
strange and alien |
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US infant mortality rate vs. Ancient Near Eastern |
US: 6.2/1000 ANE: 330/1000 |
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What percent of the ANE population farmed? |
90% |
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what was the typical yield for ANE crops? Why was this a problem? |
yield 1:3. They only got to eat 2 because they had to keep one for seed. |
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what was the main crop of the ANE? |
grain (wheat and barley) |
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what is the difference between a famine and a food shortage? |
Famine: near total lack of food. People die. Food shortage: people are hungry. |
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what were the options during a famine? why? |
move away or stay and die. (Mass food transport was not possible. |
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what were the 3 categories of slaves? |
skilled slaves, semi-skilled slaves, unskilled slaves. |
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what are the 4 areas discussed in this unit? |
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Hittite country |
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what are the 4 boarders that protected Egypt? |
North: Mediterranean sea South: Sudan mountains East: Red Sea West: Sahara Desert |
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How long is the Nile river? |
4000 miles long (longest in the world) |
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what is the term for rich Egyptian soil because of the Nile? |
Black land |
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Who unified Egypt and when? |
Menes/Nrmer in 3100 BC |
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what three gods were the Egyptian Pharaoh? |
prince: Re/Ra (sun god) Pharaoh: Horus (sky god) dead: Osiris (death god) |
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three levels of Egyptian society |
Vizier (Hyksos) right-hand man Bureaucracy Peasants |
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What is Maat? |
the Egyptian concept of universal stability and harmony. |
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what was the political organization of Sumer? |
City-states |
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What were Sumerian's relationship with the gods? |
Quid pro quo. Viewed gods as angry. |
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Who was Sargon? |
Akkadian king in 2400 BC. Created te first Mesopotamian empire by conquering the Sumerian city-states. |
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What people group were the Babylonians? |
Ammorites |
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Who destroyed the Babylonians? |
the Kassites. |
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why were the Hittites so successful? |
they were Iron Age and highly feared. |
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Where were the Hittites from? |
Anatolia |
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the types of literature in Dispute? |
story telling, verse, and proverbial phrases. |
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what made the worldview of the Hebrews different from other ANE people groups? |
monotheism. Not contingent on geography |
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Who was the first universal empire? |
Assyria |
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What was new/good about the Assyrian army? |
Organization into distinct groups (infantry, archers, stone-slingers, chariots) |
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What Hebrew King did the Assyrians conquer? |
Hezekiah |
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What people group were the Neo-Babylonians? |
Chaldeans |
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With whom did the Neo-Babylonians ally? What city did they conquer? |
Medes. Nineveh. |
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what is hubris? |
a common moral flaw in epics. excessive pride. Or just too much of a good thing. |
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Where are the Medes from? |
Iran |
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what is a unique/cool thing about the geography of Iran (related to the Medes) |
lots of mineral wealth |
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What year did the Chaldean Alliance form (Neo-Babylonians and Medes). |
710 BC. (We-don't-like-Assyria club) |
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From where do we get the majority of our information about the Persians? |
outside sources. Herodotus (Greek historian) |
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What is the Persian worldview? |
It's guess work. Not as negative as Assyria, but not as positive as Egypt. Probably a little on the positive side. |
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Who was the great Persian ruler? What years did he reign? |
Cyrus the Great (reign 559-530BC) |
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What motivated Cyrus? |
uniting the people groups. Iranian. |
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Why did Cyrus go to conquer Lydia on the far west? |
they just invented joinage |
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what was the political organization of Persia? |
Provinces called Satrapy. Each Satrapy had a Satrap (governor), chief military guy, and head tax administrator. |
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What was a major contribution of the Persians? |
Royal Road (1600 miles long) |
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Who was Zoroaster |
600BC ish. Persian. Rejected idols/temples (like other Persians). Taught about cosmic-struggle between good and evil. |
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3 functions of art in ANE |
Ritual, Political, and Functional/Decorative |
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what was the primary construction method of ANE? |
post and lintel |
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What was notable about Egyptian Architecture? |
started thinking about spacial visual aspects. |
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what was something to come out the Egyptian art? |
Egyptian blue. First synthetic pigment. |
