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In 3100 B.C. who united what into one kingdom? |
Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt |
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Pharaoh meaning |
"Great House" |
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Authoritarian |
A form of government where somebody has power to govern |
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Power to govern |
Power to make, enforce, and interpret laws |
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Civil Power |
The power that the people have |
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Totalitarianism
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absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution
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5 Things to control to be a totalitarian |
1. Military 2. Economy 3. Religion 4. Education 5. Mass Media
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Primogeniture
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Passing down leadership mantle from father to son |
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Regency |
When someone else takes over when there is no son
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Dynasty
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At least 5 primogenitures
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Aristocracy |
A privileged class by birth |
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Why were the Egyptians polytheistic? |
All of the unexplained natural phenomenon they saw had to be explained by supernatural entities |
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What kind of afterlife did Egyptians believe in |
They believed that there was a journey to the dead and you would be judged by your deeds |
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What was mummification for |
To keep bodies together for the underworld |
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What were the Egyptians credited with architecturally |
Post and lintel (windows and doors), pyramids, interior space |
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What were the Egyptians credited with scientifically |
Alloys, sail, calendar (Lunar + dog star) |
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What were the Egyptians credited with medically |
The Book of Healing Diseases |
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What were the Book of Healing Diseases' 4 parts |
1. Repairing injuries 2. Treating illnesses 3. Nutrition 4. Preventive medicine |
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When did Sumerians come to Mesopotamia |
About 3000 B.C. |
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What was the Sumerian's writings |
Cuneiform |
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What was the Sumerians religion |
Divination, using natural signs to foretell the future |
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What government did the Sumerians have |
City-State |
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City-State |
A sovereign state with independent cities, needs a defined territory, population, and sovereignty |
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What are the Sumerians credited with mathematically |
Base 60 and Geometry |
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Who held power 1600-1200 B.C. in Mesopotamia |
The Hittites |
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What major things did the Hittites accomplish |
They were the first to incorporate intent, improved weapons, first to focus intellect on weapons |
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Who conquered the Hittites and ruled Mesopotamia from 900-600 B.C. |
Assyrians |
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The Assyrians were primarily focused on what |
Military |
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What things were the Assyrians the first to do |
Employ siege warfare and rule by terror |
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What was the Assyrian's capital and what made it so well defended |
Nineveh, they made a star shaped wall so that they could always reach their enemies flank |
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Who destroyed Nineveh in 612 B.C. |
Medes and Chaldeans |
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Why did the Medes depend upon the Chaldeans |
For defence, the Chaldeans were much stronger than the Medes |
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How were the Assyrians replaced by the Chaldeans |
They basically lost internal support |
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What king saw to the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the world |
King Nebuchadnezzar |
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What did Nebuchadnezzar and his dad try to make and how did they do it |
A super race, they made a 3 year plan for civilization |
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In 568 B.C. what was added to Babylonian Empire |
Judah with Jerusalem |
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What important person was taken to Babylon from Jerusalem and why |
Daniel was taken to Babylon to serve the king |
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When was a large banquet held in Babylon and why was it held |
In 539 B.C. and it was held to honor their god Bel |
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What sacred rules of theirs were broken during the banquet in Babylon |
Women were allowed in the Hanging Gardens, and they drank alcohol |
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Why did Belshazzar summon Daniel at the banquet |
A hand wrote on a wall,"Mene Mene Tekel Parsin" and Daniel was extremely smart |
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What did Daniel say would happen to Belshazzar and Babylon |
He said that the Persians would destroy them that night |
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How did the Persians and Medes defeat Babylon |
They set 20,000 men at the East gate, 20,000 at the North gate, and 20,000 to build a levy to lower the water entering Babylon. With the water lowered so much they were able to get under the walls. |
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What religion arose and what is the gist of it |
Zoroastrianism rose, 2 gods, good and evil, humans chose which they follow |
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Why did the king Cyrus the Great, who took reign from his father, receive heavy criticism |
Totalitarians aren't tolerant, and he was |
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What were the Persian wars |
When Darius and Xerxes attacked Greece 3 times. Darius twice and Xerxes once, every time they failed. |
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When did Persia fall and why did they fall |
331 B.C. Greek invaders destroyed Persia so that Persia wouldn't be able to attack them again |
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How was Phoenicia able to maintain translatable information even after being attacked a lot |
They had the first written alphabet |
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What were the Phoenicians excellent at |
Building ships, they built the first ships that were able to go into deep water away from land |
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What about shipbuilding did the Phoenicians master or invent |
They mastered the 2:1 ratio of displacement, the use of a keel, and the use of varnish on the boats. |
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What were Tyre and Sidon |
The centers of the colonial empire |
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Naval Stores |
Natural stores of sap in wood that could be used to make resin, pitch, tar, and turpentine/varnish |
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What did the Phoenicians do in the West |
They set up trade centers |
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What did the Punic Wars determine racially |
They accounted for the Caucasian race in Carthage |
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Ba'al |
Patron god, god of a place |
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Ba'al Hammon |
Patron god of Carthage |
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What did the Phoenicians do at their temples for Ba'al Hammon |
They sacrificed the first born on the middle day of the third month |
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Judaism has the oldest |
Written theology |
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Zionism |
Movement by Jews to reestablish the state of Israel according to original boundaries of Abrahamic covenant |
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How did the Jews show obedience to God |
Through following commandments and sacrifice |
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Where is the Promised Land |
West to the Nile, North to Hamath, East to the Euphrates, South to Kadesh |
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Why did the Jews wander in Negev and for how long did they |
They didn't have faith that God would deliver them to the promised land, 40 years. |
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When was the Abrahamic Covenant made |
2000 B.C. and it was the beginning of God's chosen people |
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What teachings did all the prophets have in common |
1. You have a problem 2. God will judge you 3. You have to repent 4. There is a coming Messiah |
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Alphabet |
Series of symbols each representing a sound. Vocabulary can be constructed from organization of the symbols, then sentences can be made |
