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Name the 5 levels of cavemen and their time frame.
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Homohabilis - 2,000,000 - 1,600,000
Homoerectus - 1,600,000 - 300,000 Archaichomosapiens - 300,000 - 125,000 Neanderthal - 125,000 - 40,000 Homosapiens - 40,000 - now |
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Name the 1st caveman and time frame
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Homohabilis - 2,000,000 - 1,600,000
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Which level of caveman was becoming more erect, but still walking stooped?
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Archaichomosapiens 300,000 - 125,000
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When was the first experience of fire?
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Approx 400,000 BC
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Name the 4 customes for the dead, by the Neanderthals
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1. Double position (fetal)
2. Painting iwth Ochre (element of iron ore) 3. Buried close to fire 4. Buried food with person |
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Times of the Paleolith and what aka?
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Paleolith aka Old Stone
Lower Paleolith - 2,000,000 - 30,000 Upper Paleolith - 30,000 - 10,000 |
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Period after Paleolith (Old Stone Age)
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Mesolithic - Middle Age
10,000 - 7,000 |
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Times of the Neolith and what aka?
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aka New Stone Age
begins at 7,000 BC |
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Name the 3 metal ages after/during the Neolith (New Stone Age)
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Copper Age - 6,000 - 4,500
Bronze Age - 5,000 - 2,000 Iron Age - 2,000 - ..... |
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We believe that the caveman began where?
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South Africa - Oldivai
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Tool Collection?
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Oldivain
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Most advanced tool collection
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Mousterian
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Neanderthal built what with tools?
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1. Shelter
2. Basketry 3. Pottery 4. Weaving |
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Two areas of Mesopotamia?
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Northern Meso - Assyria
Southern Meso - Babylonia |
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Regions of Babylonia?
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(Southern Mesopotamia)
1. Akkad (Semetic) - Lang derived from the desert 2. Sumer (Indo Eurompean) - Lang not desert based. |
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Writing begins where?
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Sumer - located in the region of Babylon, southern Mesopotamia.
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What area dominated Mesopotamia?
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Sumer (Indo-Europeans)
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Two rivers in Mesopotamia?
One river in Egypt |
Euphrates & Tigris
Nile |
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Natural resource of Egypt
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Papyrus tree (Meso does not have)
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Early writing was predominantly what style? When & Where did it begin?
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Predominantly Pictographic
Began in Sumer in 3500 BC |
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Time period of the Theocracy?
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3500-2500 BC
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Birth place of Abraham?
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Ur
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Major Sumerian cities?
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Ur, Lagash, Erech, Umma
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Time period of 1st Dynasty of Ur and its ruler?
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2525 - 2425
Mesannepado |
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Which 2 cities fight after the 1st dynasty of Ur collapses?
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Lagash & Umma
Lagash will win - leg by Eannatum |
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Describe Theocracy
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Time period prior to the 1st Dynasty of Ur where priests controlled cities by controlling the land.
3500 - 2500 BC |
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Who is Eannatum
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Led Legash to victory over Umma after the fall of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
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What is the "Stele of the Vulture"
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Sculpture of pure stone to commemorate Eannatum (ruler of Lagash after the fall of the 1st dynasty of Ur.)
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Who is Urkagina?
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Brought first LAW CODE
1st social reformer in history. |
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Lagash rules Umma when?
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Lagash defeats Umma approx 2425. Rules Umma till 2350, when Umma attacks and defeats Lagash.
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"Luga" means what?
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King
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Who is Lugalzaggisi?
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Ruler of Umma - led Umma to attack and defeat Lagash in 2350 BC
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Who conquers Lugalzaggisi and when?
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Sargon conquers Lugalzaggisi and rules from 2340 - 2150.
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Who is Sargon?
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Ruler of Umma - 2340 - 2150.
Establishes semetic dynasty |
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Who is Guti?
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Ruled after Sargon in 2150 - 2130 BC
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1st major ruler of the 3rd dynasty of Ur
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Ur - Nammu
Controlled Sumer & Akkad (s. meso, aka Babylonia) Deemed a God when dies |
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Grandson of Sargon?
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Naron - Sim
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First writing? Wet clay - impressed pictures.
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Cuneiform
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System of writing - 3 languages?
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Behistun Rock
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Unlocks Egyptian history
Found near the city of Rosetta Several languages |
Rosetta Stone
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Belief in the existence of spirits separable from the body.
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Animism
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Male figure
Represents the earth |
An
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Female figure
represents heaven |
Ki
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An & Ki create human race & Gods & Goddesses
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Anunnaki
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Mesopotamian God - 2600 BC
Enforcer of Anunnaki |
Enlil
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The mesopotamian god that didn't want to die.
Ruler of Uruk |
Gilgamesh
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Sumerian flood legend
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Ziusuda
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Religious ancient structure in Mesopotamia. Step structure.
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Zigguart
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Wall around the ziggurat
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Ekur
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Semetic people living in Mesopotamia.
Troublesom nomads believed to be one of the causes of the downfall of the 3rd dynasty of Ur |
Amorities
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Started the Amorites
Ruler of the 1st dynasty of Babylon Extensive Law Code Established Old Babylonia |
Hammurabi
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New deity created by Hammurabi
Replaced Enlil Ghief God of Babylon Called himself King of the 4 quarters |
Marduk
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3 peoples during the fall of the old Babylonia dynasty.
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Hittites
Mitanni Kassites |
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Who rules Hittites?
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Suppililiumas
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Who ruled the Mitanni
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Tushratta
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Who ruled the Kassites
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Harmhab
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When was the fall of the Old Babylonia dynasty
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1550 - 1350 BC
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Ruler of Egypt
Creates Supreme deity - Monotheism aka Amenhotep iv |
Akhnaton - 1353 - 1336
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Ruler of the Hittites - after Suppililumas
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Tabarna the Sun
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Ancient capital of the Hittites
Approx 300 acres - #'s of gates for protection |
Hattusas
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1st king of unified Egypt
believed to be the first pharaogh of Egypt. menes - upper & lower egypt |
Narmer
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3100 - 2700 BC
1st part of Egyptian history Pulling together - political power, pharaoh's |
Early Egyptian dynasty
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2 Major Egyptian cities
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Memphis & Thebes
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2700 - 2200 BC
Pyramid building period Pharaoh on top of system |
Old Egyptian Kingdom
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Stages of Egyptian History
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2200 - 2000 = 1st Intermediate
2000 - 1800 = Middle Kingdom 1800 - 1600 = 2nd Intermediate 1600 - 1100 = New Kingdom 1100 - 525 = Post New Kingdom |
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Types of Egyptian Burial
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Shallow grave, Bricked in, Mastaba, Zoser Step Pyramid, Angle Pyramid (Snefru)
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Known by the Greeks as "Cheops"
Builder of the great pyramid |
Khufu
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Where the rock came from to build the great pyramid
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Scarp
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Most ancient and primative of all Egyptian writing systems.
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Hieroglyphic
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Cursive style of writing
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Hieratic
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More cursive and simplified system than Hieratic writing
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Demotic
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Hawk God
Son of Osirus |
Horus
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Sun God
Patron deity |
Amon Re
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People attach to animal deities in areas where they lived
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totenism
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Concept of Heaven somewhere in the west.
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Field of rushes
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One of the most important gods of ancient Egypt.
Double god - God of Fertility & God of the dead. Father of Horus Husband if Isis |
Osiris
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Soul stays with the person through life. Birth
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Ka
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Soul in a dead person
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Ba
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Next in power to the pharaoh.
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vizier
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Crowns worn by the pharaoh?
Upper Egypt Lower Egypt Upper & Lower Egypt? |
White - Upper
Red - Lower Double Crown - Upper & Lower |
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Agricultural Laborer
Free but not completely, at the bottom yet still not a slave. |
Serf
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Introduced Horse & chariot & various tools.
1700 - 2nd intermediate |
Hyksos
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Capital of Hyksos empire. Lower Egypt political capital.
1600 national revolution |
Avaris
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4 pharaoh's of Egypt - after Hyksos is defeated?
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1. Akmes 1570 - 1545
2. Amenhotep I - 1545 - 1525 3. Thothmes I - 1525 - 1505 Hatshepsut - 1505 - 1490 Thothmes II 4. Thothmes III - 1490 - 1450 |
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King of Egypt - 1390 - 1353
Had as many as 365 wives. Ty is the chief wife. |
Amenhotep III
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aka Akhnaton
creates supreme deity as an expression of monotheism. established new monotheistic cult of Aton. |
Amenhotep IV
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Meaning God - this suffix is added to many names such as pharaoh's.
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Aton
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Married to Akhnaton
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Nefertiti
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New city symbolic of new religion - Aton.
Akhnaton transferred the capital of Egypt from Thebes to here. Gave Egypt new direction to God. |
Akhetaton
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Home of the King
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House of Life
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Reign marked last peak of Egyptian imperal power.
Constructed Abul Simbel (most prestigous pharaoh temple. Rec'd bravery medal for the battle of Kadesh. |
Rameses II - 1290 - 1225 BC
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Won the Battle of the Sea People
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Ramesis III 1198 - 1167 BC
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