Bce civilizations Flashcards
What was the largest accomplishment of the Hittites?
They learned how to smelt iron.
What language group did the Assyrians, Phoenicians,, Hittites, and Akkadians belong to?
Indo-European.
What was the first metal to be used by man?
Copper.
What is it called when you mix two metals together?
An alloy.
Where the Sumerians indo-European, or Semitic?
Neither. We don’t know where they came from.
Where the Phoenicians Semitic or indo-European?
Semitic.
Where did Phoenicians live?
In city-states, along the coasts of what is now Lebanon.
What where the two peoples who overthrew the Assyrian empire?
The Babylonians and the Medes.
What was the 50 year period in which the Persians held the Babylonians prisoner.
The Babylonian captivity.
What where Charles Darwin’s two most famous books?
The decent of man, & the origin of species.
Who was the last Egyptian pharaoh?
Cleopatra?
How many dynasty’s did Egypt have?
30.
Who where the first people to invade Egypt?
The Hyksos.
Who where the first people in history to create glass?
The Phoenicians.
Who invented the worlds first alphabet?
The Phoenicians.
These people discovered a shellfish from which they extracted a very valuable purple dye.
The Phoenicians.
Who was the great general of Carthage?
Hannibal.
What is an attempt to take a fortified city?
A siege.
Where the Assyrians Semitic or indo-European?
Semitic.
The Assyrian capital was?
Ninevah.
Who did the dirty work for the Assyrians?
The people that they conquered, while they went out and conquered more people.
How did the Assyrians keep their slaves from revolting?
Through terror.
Who beat the Hittites?
The Assyrians.
Who made siege towers?
The Assyrians.
