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Early Civilizations/The Ancient World Flashcards

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Abraham enters Canaan (Date)

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c. 2090 B.C.

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The Exodus (Date)

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c. 1446 B.C.

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Chaldean/Babylonian Empire (Date)

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c. 612 - 539 B.C.

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Judah’s 70-year Captivity in Babylon (Date)

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c. 605 - 536 B.C.

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Persian Empire (Date)

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c. 550 - 331 B.C.

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Began and Ended the Persian Empire

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Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great

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Discovered King Tut’s Tomb

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Howard Carter

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Persian State Religion

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Zoroastrianism

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Dating based on the reign of kings

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Regnal Dating

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Mesopotamia (Meaning and modern location)

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“The Land between the Rivers”; located in modern Iraq and Syria

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Regions in the Fertile Crescent

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Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Palestine

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Regions in the Far East

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India and China

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13
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“The Cradle of Civilization”

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Mesopotamia

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Civilization

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A culture that has attained a high degree of complexity, characterized by urban life

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Aspects of Early Mesopotamian Life

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EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN LIFE
A. Home – a swampy flood plain subject to irregular flooding
B. Tigris/Euphrates area was open to invasion & saw constant warfare
C. City-state
D. Writing system called cuneiform
F. Widespread Slavery
G. Polytheism

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Sargon I

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aka Sargon the Great
Built the world’s first substantial empire (from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean)

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17
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Under whom was Babylon prominent?

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Hammurabi

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18
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Famous for His Law Code

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Hammurabi

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19
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“The Gift of the Nile”

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Egypt

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True or False: The Nile rose and fell with precision and deposited black silt on its banks.

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True

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21
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Believed to be both a man and a god
The first to be mummified

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Pharaoh

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22
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Used to decipher hieroglyphics

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Rosetta Stone

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Devised the first solar calendar

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Place at which the pyramids were at their zenith

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Period in which the age of pyramids was at its zenith

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Old Kingdom Period

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Overthrown in a national uprising in Egypt

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First Female Pharaoh

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Hatshepsut

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Pharaoh of the Exodus

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Amenhotep II

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Attempted Monotheistic Reform

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Tutankhamun also known as

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King “Tut”

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Signifcance of Tutankhamun

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His tomb escaped looting and was found largely intact

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(First Three) Kings of Israel’s United Kingdom

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Saul
David
Solomon

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Israel’s Divided Kingdom

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Israel (10 Tribes) in the North and Judah (2 Tribes) in the South

34
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Identified with Samaria

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Kingdom Identified with Jerusalem

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Conquered Israel (Northern Tribes)

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Assyrians [722 B.C.]

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Conquered Judah (Southern Tribes)

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Babylonians (586 B.C.)

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Western European Peoples during the Iron Age

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People group formerly claimed as evidence of errors in the Bible

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The Hittites’ region

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Asia Minor

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True or False: When Archaeology verified Biblical references to the Hittites, historians practiced [good] revisionism

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Used iron weapons and made formal treaties

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Another name for the Phoenicians

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Canaanites

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The Mediterranean’s greatest traders, navigators, shipbuilders, and colonizers

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Phoenicians

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Most popular Phoenician export

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Cloth dyed purple

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People group that dominated camel caravan trade

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International language of the Near East

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Militaristic & Cruel People

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Assyrians (they ruled by terror)

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Another name for the Babylonians

50
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Joined with the Medes to overthrow the Assyrians

51
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Where was Persia (modern-day)?

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One of the “greatest conquerors in the history of the ancient Near East”

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Cyrus the Great

53
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Which empire built an [efficient] royal highway?

54
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Epic written before Genesis

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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