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Civilization Begins Flashcards

1
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What great wonder of the world did Nebuchadnezzar build for his wife in Babylon?

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Hanging Gardens

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Who were the only people in the middle east to have a monotheistic religion?

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Israelites

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What is Judaism’s most sacred text?

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Torah

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Persian religion was called?

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Zoroastrianism

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The Middle Kingdom was a turbulent period at first but later it became stable, expanded, and later was known as their…

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Golden Age

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Who was the Father of Israel, farmer from Ur who lived approximately 2000 B.C.E?

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Abraham

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What was the name of the leaders of the different regions of Persia under Darius I?

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Satrap

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Who was at the top of the bureaucracy within Egypt, this person held absolute power, was also seen a earchly god?

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Pharaoh

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What was the “area between the rivers” known as?

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Mesopotamia

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10
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In return for the Israelites faithful obedience to God, __________ led the Jews out of Egypt and back to Israel

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Moses

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During a famine many of the people of Israel left Canaan and went to __________?

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Egypt

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In Ancient Egypt, __________ went to school at 7 to learn how to write in hieroglyphics and hieratic script

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Scribes

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What were the Hittites most famous for?

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Iron Weapons

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Egyptians would bury their dead with all the belongings they would need for their ___________?

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Afterlife

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Around 1000 B.C. the 12 tribes of Israel were united by _________ who would combine them into one single nation.

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King David

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King Solomon began a building project that transformed the city of __________ into an impressive world capital

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Jerusalem

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17
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Sumerians lacked many building materials so their cities were made of……

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Clay and Stone

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What laws came from God to the Jewish people as instructions and Israel had to follow strictly?

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Ten Commandments

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The Old Kingdom build the Great Pyramids, they were used for?

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Tombs for the Pharaoh

20
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Egyptians perfected the art of _____________, to preserve bodies for the afterlife.

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Mummification

21
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What Empire established itself around 1350 B.C.E after the Akkadians?

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Assyrians

22
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The Egyptians started writing 5000 years ago, with pictographs to present their language called?

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Hieroglyphics

23
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All of these were periods of Ancient Egypt except?

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Beginning Kingdom

24
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Egypt relied on the ___________ River to provide water and help with farming

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Nile

25
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Which area did Abraham need to take his people too?

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Canaan

26
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Which king united Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom?

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Menes

27
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During the New Kingdom, Invaders began to take over Egypt and the last Egyptian Pharaoh was removed in 332 BC by the…

A

Greeks

28
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True or False:

Israel was a patriarchal society where men held the power and made the laws

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True

29
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True or False: Judaism taught a strong moral code to its people and Prophets such as Isaiah and Jeremiah taught this moral code.

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True

30
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True or False:

Hammurabi is most well known for codifying a set of laws for the Babylonian Empire.

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True

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True or False: Lower Egypt is north of Upper Egypt within the continent of Africa.

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True

32
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True or False: Judaism has influenced many of the other major monotheistic religions of the modern world such a Christianity and Islam

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True

33
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True or False:

Sumerians believed that their gods were above the people and did not behave like them

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False

34
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True or False: Epic of Gilgamesh is a well known epic that gives insight on Sumerian culture, religion, government, and daily life.

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True

35
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True or False: The Sumerians developed the first civilization of the Fertile Crescent around 3000 BC

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True

36
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True or False: The Sumerians were the first civilization to develop writing called hieroglyphics

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False

37
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True or False: Hieroglyphics could be written in two directions and was only written on papyrus.

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False

38
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True or False: After the fall of the first Babylonians there was a period in the Fertile Crescent when power changed hands many times.

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True

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True or False: The Egyptians also sent armies south to conquer Nubia and their huge deposits of gold.

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True

40
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True or False: The Israelites were forced into exile By Nebuchadnezzar for over 300 years until Cyrus the Great set them free.

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False

41
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True or False: The Rosetta Stone was used to decipher Egyptian Hieratic Script. English being the one that helped break the code.

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False

42
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List two ways that geography impacted the way of life in Egypt

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Geography allowed for agriculture and crops to prosper and be sent off for trade. The Nile made the soil around the river very fertile which aided the farmers as they grew the crops. As well, the Nile River acted as a source of transportation which allowed people to leave and trade.

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What was the importance of the Ten Commandments to Judaism and the Israelites?

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The Ten Commandments were a set of rules given to Jews by Yahweh (Judaism God). Those who followed Judaism had these set of rules rooted into them so they could follow their set paths of being pure for Yahweh. The Ten Commandments gives us insight into the morals and ethics of the Jewish people as well as how monotheism worked in ancient times.

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Why was the Code of Hammurabi so revolutionary for its time?

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The Code of Hammurabi was so revolutionary for its time because of the mass amount of punishment and control it had over civilization. There were over 200 laws made to govern and control the actions of civilization. The codes have served as a model for establishing justice in other cultures and are believed to have influenced laws established in the modern world.

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All three civilizations have their own religion what are some similarities and differences between them?

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All three civilizations believed in something of a higher power. Mesopotamia and Egypt were polytheistic, while Israel was monotheistic. In some of the stories we learned about, some civilizations crossed into one of the other territories. For example, Moses led the Jews out of Egypt and back to Israel. As well, these civilizations heavily relied on the resources they had to build themselves from the group up into the empires they made themselves to be.

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