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Chapter 2 - Starting Of Civilization Flashcards

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An area between the Tigris and Eupharates rivers where the civilization of Sumer arose

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Mesopotamia

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Where the world’s first civilization arose around 3300 BC

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Sumer

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3
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System of social ranking

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Hierarchy

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In ancient Mesopotamia a large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city’s chief God or goddess.

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Ziggurat

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What are the three Samaritan cities ?

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1) Uruk
2) Eridu
3) Ur

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To stop flooding in the civilizations when it was near a river, what did they create?

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They created canals and dikes

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Ur and Uruk were built of dried _______ __________.

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Clay bricks

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Sumer created what first?

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Sumerians created the first wheeled vehicle

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Sumerians society was highly structured each city-state had a _____________.

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Hierarchy

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The Sumerians developed the earliest known writing systems called __________.

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Cuneiform

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What did cuneiform develop that recorded goods brought to the temple?

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System of pictographs

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Sumerians recorded the movements of planets and stars with the development of _______ & _______

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Astronomy and math

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13
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Who created the number system?

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Sumerians

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14
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Who used Sumerian knowledge ?

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Babylonians, Greek, Romans

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What was sumer’s legacy?

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The counting system based on the number six and time (60 min)

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Ruler of Akkad who conquered Sumer in 2300 BC and built the FIRST EMPIRE?

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Sargon

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17
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What were the two branches still used today of Hammurabi’s code ?

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Civil law and criminal law

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18
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How many rules are there is the Hammurabi code?

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282

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19
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Hammurabi was the kid of ____________

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Babylon

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How did Hammurabi unify his empire ?

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He unified it by using the law, the military, public works, and religion.

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Law=

Military=

Public Works=

Religion=

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Law= Hammurabi code

Public Works= imported irrigation

Religion= repaired temples and promoted Maduk, the patron God of Babylon

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Order of conquests and rulers:

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Hittites are next because of the iron use and chariots
Coming after Hittites are the Assyrians because they were fearless and used battle Rams and had Calvary.
After Assyrians were the Nebuchadnezzar
After the Nebuchadnezzar were the Persians

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23
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What is looting ?

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When you steal something from someone when they are un defensive

24
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Who was the man that made his wife a forest in the desert ?

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Nebuchadnezzar

25
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What is the east side ?

What is the west side ?

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East side: Indus

West Side: Nile

26
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In 539 BC Babylon fell to the ___________ armies of ____________ __________ __________, who successors built the largest empire yet seen.

A

Persian

Cyrus the Great

27
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Who divided the empire into satrapy or provinces, each under a government?

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Emperor Darius

28
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What is satrapy like?

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A county

29
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Aserians built in?

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Nineveh (idk he said this)

30
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Persian empire under who’s control ?

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Emperor Darius I

31
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Darius encouraged the use of what?

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The use of coins and the switch from barter economy to money economy

32
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Persians were the first people to be ______________.

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Monotheistic

33
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Who was Zoroaster and what did he do?

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He was a thinker who thought that there was one single God named ANURA MAZDA. He believed that only that one God could judge on the persons judgement day.

34
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Phoenician were the “_____________ ____ _____________”

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Carries of civilization

35
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Phoenicians hooked on _________

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Phoenix

36
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The Phoenician discovered an ink called the what?

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Tyrian Dye

37
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This dye came from _________. It was a purplish color that was later used for _________.

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Snails

Royalty

38
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The Persians also created the 22 _____________ ____________

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Constant alphabet

39
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Upper and Lower Egypt was conquered by:

A

Menes

40
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Menes United and created something known as a ________.

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Capital

41
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Old Capital:
Middle Capital:
New Capital:

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Memphis
Thebes
Memphis

42
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A vizier is a synonym for ________.

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Sitra

43
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The Middle Kingdom was a what kind of era?

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Turbulent era

44
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Who was the first Egyptian female ruler that dressed up as a man?

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Hatshepsut

45
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Who was a pharaoh who ruled for 66 years?

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Ramses II

46
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Ramses battled the Hittites before signing what?

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The oldest peace treaty

47
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What’s papyrus ?

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Paper-like strips

48
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A cursive form, hieratic script, and later demotic script used _______________ ______________.

A

Simplified symbols

49
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Nebuchadnezzar fixed ___________.

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Babylon

50
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Cuneiform is to Sumerians as hieroglyphics are to _____________

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Edpgyptians

51
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Egyptians were the first to know about

A

Geometry

52
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Iron tools:

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Hittites

53
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Israelites brought ____________ that was all powerful

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Monotheism

54
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State the river valley civilizations

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Nile
Tigris & Euphrates
Shang
Indus

55
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Yahweh is who?

A

God

56
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Moral laws are NOT in the _____________

A

Constitution

57
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Who was Olsairus ?

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God of the Nile

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