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Early River Valley Civilizations Flashcards

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What where the contributions from the Phoenicians?

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  • Phoenician alphabet (phonics)
  • shipbuilders
  • ## purple dye from snails
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Who were the Phoenicians?

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  • gods who wanted sacrifices
  • polytheistic
  • main God: Baal
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Where is Phoenicia modern-day?

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Modern-day Lebanon located above Palestine

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What kind of economy did the city states of Phoenicia have?

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  • great at trade
  • sea farers
  • ## traded goods like weapons wine precious metals ivory and slaves
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What was Nubia/ the Kush located?

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On the upper Nile (so farther south)

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What did the Nubians do?

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  • Egyptians captured Nubians and made them slaves but the Nubians rescued Egyptians from the Libyans
  • chased out the Libyans
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Who were the Assyrians?

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  • used IRON
  • made chariots
  • brutality
  • traded all over
  • at the end defeated by the kingdom of Aksum
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Who were the Hebrews and where did they come from?

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  • come originally from Mesopotamia, city state of Ur.
  • asked by God to move to caanan / Palestine
  • settles between Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River valley
  • shared the area with Phoenicians
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What did the Hittites do first?

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Iron smelting

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What is the holy text of Judaism?

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The Torah

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Who was the founder of Judaism?

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Abraham

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Who was the prophet of Judaism?

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Moses

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What did Moses do?

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Led the Jews out of Egyptian slavery

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What was the Exodus?

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When Moses led the Jews out of Egypt

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What is the ethical code of Judaism?

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The 10 commandments

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What is the holy city of Judaism?

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Jerusalem

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Where is Jerusalem modern day?

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Caanan (modern day Israel)

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What is Judaism mono or poly?

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Monotheistic

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What is Hebrew

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The spoken language of the Jews

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What was the Exile?

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  • banishment
  • the Babylonians put Jews into exile for 49 years
  • Cyrus the great freed Hebrews and helped them rebuild their temple
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What was the Diaspora?

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The scattering of the Jews. Because of the exile, they were scattered.

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What was the 1st empire ?

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Akkad- when Sargon of Akkad conquered Sumer

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Where is Mesopotamia?

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The land around and between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers

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What are the 5 key characteristics of Sumer?

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  1. Advanced cities
  2. Complex institutions
  3. Advanced tech
  4. Specialized workers
  5. Record keeping
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What was the first form of writing?

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CUNEIFORM

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What were some Sumerian city states

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Uruk Kush lagash umma ur

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What was Sumerian religion? Mono or poly? Places of worship?

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Polytheistic. Served their gods. Built ziggurats as temples. They were pyramids.

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What type of rule (- cracy) did Sumeria have

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Theocracy

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What is theocracy?

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Ruled by religious authority who’s also head of the political state

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What did all of the river valley civ. have in common? (Hint: ruling)

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Theocracy

Egypt: pharaoh
China: “son of Mandate of Heaven”
Meso: priests

They all believed the gods had given them power to rule

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Why didn’t people rebel against a theocracy?

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They believed the gods had ordained their leader with power to rule

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What is a dynasty

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A series of rulers from a single family passed down to the eldest son or closest male relative

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Divine Right

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Power to rule is granted by the will of God

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Which 1 River valley civ didnt follow an all male dynasty?

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Egypt

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What was Sumerian like

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Nobles
Commoners (90%)
Slaves (pow debtors crims)

Women: could own property had basic rights but not legal rights or an education

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What was the epic of Gilgamesh?

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The world’s 1st epic

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What was the world’s 1st epic

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The epic of Gilgamesh

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What was the language and number system of Sumeria?

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  • cuneiform

- a base 60 # system

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Inventions in meso?

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wheel, sale, plow, potters wheel, first to use bronze (copper + tin), First system of writing (cuneiform)

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What was the Akkadian empire?

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  • Semitic speaking people

- SARGON THE GREAT: CREATED 1ST EMPIRE FROM CONQUERING CITY STATEs

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What did Hammurabi do?

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Codified and collect the laws of the region with them down, they were house and punishments that apply to everyone, but they have different standards for the rich and poor and men and women.

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What were Hammurabi’s steles?

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Wrote down all his laws on the steles, United all of Mesopotamia under the Babylonian empire he said “the strong might not enjoy the week”

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Who were the Hittites?

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FIRST TO HAVE IRON SMELTING
Invented chariot
(Later fall to the Assyrians)

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How did the Assyrian empire fall?

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To the chaldeans (Neo Babylonian) were responsible for the defeat of the Syrians.

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Who put the Jews into slavery

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Nebuchadnezzar

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What were gifts of the Nile?

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Fertile soil and flooding

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Who unites Egypt is 3100 B.C.E.?

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Menes - established capital at Memphis. This was Egypt’s first dynasty

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Book of the dead

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Guide for the souls in the afterlife similar to the e pic of Gilgamesh

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Stratification of Egyptian society

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Pharaoh 
Govt officials 
Merchants and artisans
Unskilled laborers
Slaves (not citizens)
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What technological stuff did Egypt give us?

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Solar calendar 365 days

  • splints
  • hieroglyphics
  • NOT PAPER
  • ideograms
  • Rosetta Stone
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Who were the Hyksos

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Rulers of the plans ended in the middle Kingdom

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What were the two major cities in the Indus River Valley

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Harappa and mohenj-daro

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Ancient China what are the 3 dynasties in order?

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Xia
Shang
Zhou

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What did the Xia contribute?

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Founded by yu the great

Flood control and irrigation
Polytheistic
Human sacrifice
No writing

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Shang

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Founded by Chang tang?

  • capital: anyng and was moved 6 times
  • produced bronze (tin + copper)
  • animal husbandry
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How did the Shang dynasty decline

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Defeated by Zhou at the battle of Muye

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Political: Shang

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  • king was supreme ruler
  • theocracy
  • aristocracy- rule by an elite few
  • Kings divided land and territory among generals
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Social: Shang

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  • patriarchal
  • family was very central, chief loyalty was to family
  • women treated as inferior
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Culture: Shang

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Oracle bones: communicated with the gods

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Pictograms

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In the Shang dynasty, the characters represent a idea

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The Zhou dynasty

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  • founded by king wu (he claimed Shang rulers lost support of the gods)
  • longest dynasty ever
  • established: mandate of heaven, dynastic cycle, and feudalism
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Feudalism

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Feudalism is when the nobles granted that the use of their land to serfs. The supreme ruler still rules but pwr is dealt out

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Dynastic cycle

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When a person would claim that the previous trailer had lost the favor of the gods and so the people and follow them anymore so and start all over again

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How did the Zhou decline?

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  • feudal lords grew in pwr then fought
  • 7 major states emerged
  • a complex bureaucracy formed and centralized government’s and clear legal systems
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Warfare contributions in China

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Infantry (peasant foot soldiers) and cavalry
“The art of war” by Sun tzu
New weapons of iron such as swords and crosspost

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Who developed the world’s first alphabet

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Phoenicians

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Where is the Kush

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Located in Africa along upper (southern) portion of the Nile river. Became a trading partner with Egypt

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What was the earliest form of writing

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Pictograms

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What was the first monotheistic religion?

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Judaism

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What was the first River Valley civilization

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Mesopotamia

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Why was Phoenicia so easily conquered

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There was no unity they were just rich city states that traded they had no land armies and only traded but did not war

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Who united Egypt

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The pharaoh Menes

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What civilization had a city state name tyre?

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Phoenicia

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The success of the rulers of the Kushite kingdom of Meroe when was largely based on what?

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Their wealth from trade

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What is a covenant

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A promise between a person and God

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Which Chinese dyn established feudalism?

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Zhou

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