Bce civilizations Flashcards

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What was the largest accomplishment of the Hittites?

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They learned how to smelt iron.

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What language group did the Assyrians, Phoenicians,, Hittites, and Akkadians belong to?

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Indo-European.

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What was the first metal to be used by man?

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Copper.

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What is it called when you mix two metals together?

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An alloy.

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Where the Sumerians indo-European, or Semitic?

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Neither. We don’t know where they came from.

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Where the Phoenicians Semitic or indo-European?

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Semitic.

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Where did Phoenicians live?

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In city-states, along the coasts of what is now Lebanon.

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What where the two peoples who overthrew the Assyrian empire?

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The Babylonians and the Medes.

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What was the 50 year period in which the Persians held the Babylonians prisoner.

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The Babylonian captivity.

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What where Charles Darwin’s two most famous books?

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The decent of man, & the origin of species.

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Who was the last Egyptian pharaoh?

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Cleopatra?

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How many dynasty’s did Egypt have?

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30.

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Who where the first people to invade Egypt?

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The Hyksos.

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Who where the first people in history to create glass?

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The Phoenicians.

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Who invented the worlds first alphabet?

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The Phoenicians.

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These people discovered a shellfish from which they extracted a very valuable purple dye.

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The Phoenicians.

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Who was the great general of Carthage?

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Hannibal.

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What is an attempt to take a fortified city?

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A siege.

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Where the Assyrians Semitic or indo-European?

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Semitic.

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The Assyrian capital was?

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Ninevah.

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Who did the dirty work for the Assyrians?

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The people that they conquered, while they went out and conquered more people.

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How did the Assyrians keep their slaves from revolting?

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Through terror.

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Who beat the Hittites?

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The Assyrians.

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Who made siege towers?

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The Assyrians.

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Who conquered Babylon?

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The Assyrians.

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What is a dynasty?

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A time during which a particular family ruled.

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When did the earliest civilization occur?

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4,000 BC.

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What was the ship Charles Darwin was aboard when he discovered evolution?

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The HMS Beagle.

An expeditionary ship which he spent 5 years on.

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On what islands did Charles Darwin theorize evolution?

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The Galapagos islands.

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What is natural selection?

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When creatures breed, mutations occur.

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What is selective breeding?

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Artificial natural selection, facilitated by humans.

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What is genetic engineering?

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Changing a species at its cellular level in labs.