3rd Nine Weeks Test Flashcards
1
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“Land between rivers”
Tigris and Euphrates river
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Mesopotamia
2
Q
Where the 1st cities were
A
Sumer
3
Q
Sumerian writing
A
Cuneiform
4
Q
Founder of the Akkadian empire
A
Sargon
5
Q
1st person to unite Mesopotamia
A
Sargon
6
Q
One of the oldest literatures
A
Epic of Gilgamesh
7
Q
Founded the 3rd dynasty of ur
A
Ur Nammu
8
Q
Founder of the old Babylonian empire
A
Hammurabi
9
Q
Made the 1st comprehensive law code
A
Hammurabi
10
Q
Founder of the Assyrian Empire
A
Tigelth pilsaer
11
Q
Founder of the new Babylonian empire
A
Nabopolassar
12
Q
Responsible for Babylonian captivity
A
Nebuchadnezzar
13
Q
Founded the Persian empire
A
Cyrus the great
14
Q
Nile river
A
Egypt
15
Q
1st to unite Egypt
A
Menes
16
Q
Taught us how to read hieroglyphics
A
Rosetta Stone
17
Q
Only full pharaoh tomb that we have
A
King Tut
18
Q
Chief Egyptian god in the Middle Kingdom
A
Amon ra
19
Q
Where the great pyramids were
A
Giza
20
Q
Made Aton and switched capitals to become more powerful
A
Amanhotep
21
Q
Wrote the Iliad and the odyssey
A
Homer
22
Q
Democracy of Greece
A
Athens
23
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Soldier state
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Sparta
24
Q
Turning point in history, when people’s focus goes from Mesopotamia to Greece
A
Battle of salamis
25
Led the Spartans to the battle of Thermopylae
Leonides
26
Led Athens at Salamis
Themestoycles
27
Spread Hellenism throughout the world
Alexander the Great
28
Leader of Athens during the golden age
Pericles
29
Rome defeated Carthage to dominate the Mediterranean world
Punic wars
30
Led Carthage in the 2nd Punic war
Hannibal
31
Assassinated by the Roman senate because they were afraid he would start a monarchy
Julius Caesar
32
1st emperor of Rome
Augustus
33
Half the city burned and he blamed the Christians
Nero
34
Moved the capital to Constantinople, first Christian emperor
Constantine
35
Spread Christianity throughout Rome
Peter and Paul
36
Eastern Roman Empire
Bizzentyine empire
37
1st Great bizzentyine emperor
Justinian I
38
3 monotheistic religions came from him
| Christianity, Judaism, Islam
Abraham
39
Led the Israelites in the exodus and wrote the 10 commandments
Moses
40
1st king of Israel
Saul
41
Moved the capital to Jerusalem
David
42
Built Solomon’s temple
Solomon
43
This part of the kingdom was Babylonian captivity
Southern
44
This kingdom was dispersed by the Assyrians
Northern
45
China
Hwang ho and Yangtze
46
1st unite China, built the Great Wall
Emperor chin
47
Built the world’s largest empire
Gangus khan
48
Major religion in India
Hindu
49
Siddartha god
Buddha
50
Won India’s independence from peaceful protest
Ghandi
51
Founded the frank empire
Clovis
52
Mayor of the palace that won battle of tours
Charles Martel
53
Stopped the Muslims advance into Europe
Battle of tours
54
1st Carolingian king
Pepin the short
55
Built the largest empire since the fall of the Roman Empire, pope crowned him Charles Augustus
Charlemagne
56
Divided the frank empire between Charlemagne’s children
Treaty of verdun
57
Way of life based on the ownership and use of land
Feudalism
58
1st English king
Alfred the Great
59
Brought feudalism to England, doomsday book, and won battle of Hastings
William the conqueror
60
Fought in the 3rd crusades
Richard the lionhearted
61
Forced to sign the Magna Carta
John I
62
In 1215 put the king under the law
Magna Carta
63
2nd Tudor king who made the English reformation
Henry VIII
64
Known for her brutality to change England back to Catholicism
Mary I
65
Queen during Shakespeare and Spanish Armada and the virgin Queen
Elizabeth
66
1588, marked the decline of Spain and rise of England
Spanish Armada
67
Greatest okay right in English history
Shakespeare
68
New translation of the Bible
James
69
Longest reign of England
Victoria
70
Chief prophet of Islam
Muhammad
71
Invade Rome and ended the Roman Empire
Itila de hun
72
Bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholicism church
Pope
73
Christians attempt to capture the holy land
Crusades
74
Sukarno first Egypt, united the Muslims world in 3rd crusade
Saladin
75
Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe
Bubonic plague
76
King of Spain that sent the Spanish Armada
Phillip II
77
Capital of the old kingdom
Memphis
78
Why are they on river?
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Communication
Fertile soil
Fishing
Sanitation
Irrigation
Free time
Hygiene
Transportation
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79
King of Persia; builds the royal road
Darius
80
Greek hero in the Trojan war
Achilles
81
1st Great European civilization; peaceful
Minoans
82
2nd Great European civilization; warlike
Myceneans
83
Greek city state
Polis
84
First to unite Greece
Phillip of Macedonia
85
God of the sea
Poseidon
86
King of the gods
Zeus
87
Wrote the republic; taught Aristotle
Plato
88
Greeks v. Persians
| 300 Greeks blocks Persians but they still won
Battle of Thermopylae
89
One of the largest pyramids is his tomb
Khufu
90
Capital of the old kingdom
Memphis
91
Middle Kingdom capital and new kingdom
Thebes
92
When Israel became a nation
1948
93
Communist
Mao-the-tung
94
Nationalist
Chang-Kari-shek
95
Hero of the 100 Years war
Joan of arc
96
Arrived Catherine de Medicis; leader of Huguenots
Henry IV
97
Sun king
Louis XIV
98
Prison that was stormed on bastille day
Bastille
99
Head of the committee of public safety and wanted to eliminate everything from the old regime
Maximilian Robespierre
100
Known as the savior of the republic and become emperor of France
Napoleon
101
Where Napoleon is finally defeated
Waterloo
102
King of Spain during the Spanish Armada
Phillip II
103
Followers were called Lutherans
| Nailed the 95 theses
Martin Luther
104
When did Martin Luther nail the 95 theses
1517
105
Allied powers
Russia, France, England, U.S.
106
Central powers
Austria Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria
107
His death started WWI
Archduke Ferdinand
108
When was Ferdinand assassinated
1914
109
What front was all trench warfare
Western
110
When the armistice was signed and Germans resign
November 11, 1918
111
Takes over Russia and becomes communist
Lenin
112
War between the Muslims and Christians to take back the holy land
Crusades
113
Killed 1/3 of Europe
Black Death
114
Invented the movable type printing press
Gutenberg
115
When did Hitler invade Poland
1939
116
How did WWII begin
Invasion of Poland
117
German lightning warfare
| Used it to invade Poland
Blitzkrieg
118
Supreme allied commander in the southwest Pacific Ocean
MacArthur
119
Supreme allied commander in Europe
| Organized D-Day
Eisenhower
120
German Marshall
Most decorated
Lost operation torch
Rommel
121
Japan attacks on December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
122
U.S. marches into Europe
| Largest amphibious assault in history
D-Day invasion
123
When was the D-day invasion in Normandy
June 6, 1944
124
U.S. project to build an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
125
Where does Truman drop the 1st atomic bomb
Hiroshima
126
Jews were forced to live in the ghetto
Lost all citizenship
Eventually sent to concentration camps
Holocaust
