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Exam 1 Flashcards

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Who is Sargon?

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The first ruler of the Akkadian empire

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Menes

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The first pharaoh. (3,100 BCE). On his crown, the cobra was a representation of the lower Egypt in the hawk was the representation of the upper Egypt.

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Merneith

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3000-2890 BCE. Was the daughter and wife of pharaoh and mother to very young heir in the old kingdom

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Hatshepsut

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1473-1458 BCE (new kingdom). The daughter of ThutmoseI and aunt of Thutmose III. Highest priestess of the god Amun.

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David

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1011-971 BCE. David was the second ruler of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah and is considered an important figure in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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Nebuchadnezzar

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The south Kingdom of Judah was forced to be a tributary under neo-Babylonian. The greatest king of Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia

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Cyrus the great

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Allow subject peoples to return to their homeland. He was the founder of Achaemenid empire. Undefeated a median empire

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Osiris

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A major God in ancient Egypt mythology associated with fertility agriculture, the afterlife and resurrection. He was the brother and husband of Isis and the father of Horace. He was the first born son of geb.

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Hammurabi

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Raw Babylon from about 1792 to 1750 BCE, he is noted for surviving his set of laws which were inscribed on a Stella Babylon temple of Marduk and for creating Hammurabi’s code.

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Abraham

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Known for his intense faith in Genesis, God command him to sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith, and Abraham obeys unquestioningly, preparing the sacrifice of Isaac, but God provides him a sacrificial lamb instead at the last minute.

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Solomon

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The king of Israel, who built the first temple in Jerusalem, and is the son of David, he was also the second and last king of a unified Israel, which was at the height of its power during his rain. He was known for his stories about the Bible and his wisdom

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Socrates

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Greek philosopher and scholar from Athens, who is considered the founder of western philosophy he’s known for the Socratic method which involves asking questions to help students reach their own understanding. He states that the unexamined life is not worth living.

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Plato

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Greek philosopher and teacher of Aristotle he is considered the foundation thinker of western philosophy and is known for his dialogues and metaphysical theory forms. His most famous work is the republic.

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Moses

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Moses was a prophet of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible. Moses encounters, Yahweh, and I’m burning bush, which leads him to help the Israelites escape from slavery and Egypt.

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Philip of Macedon

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The king of ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 PC he’s the father of Alexander the great he restored internal peace to his country

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Pericles

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Responsible for the full development in the later fifth century BCE, both the Athenian democracy, and the Athenian empire, making Athens, the political and cultural focus of Greece

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Thucydides

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From Athens and is the first scientific historian who told the history of Peloponnesian wars and believes that history is Philosophia learned from examples

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Herodotus

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The father of history from Ionia that researches the Persian wars

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Josiah

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The 16th king of Judah, he instituted major religious reforms by removing official worship of god other than Yahweh

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Alexander the Great

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Was one of the greatest military strategies and leaders in the world is conquest of Mediterranean states the Persian Empire, and parts of India spread Hellenistic culture across these regions

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Bronze age

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Civilizations discovered bronze, developed advanced writing systems and began large scale, urban development

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Ziggurat

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A sacred place that wasn’t ascending structure built to honor the patron God of each city. It was also used for spiritual connections with gods and gateway from heaven earth.

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Cuneiform

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A writing system that was used in the ancient Middle East and consider one of the oldest writing systems in the world

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Chalcolithic

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Copper stone, gold, and silver were found in the mountains and appeared together with a new ceramic tradition

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Built environment

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Consist of buildings and ancient Egypt, and also different pyramids made for the pharaohs

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Paleolithic era

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Old Stone Age were settled communities began to appear farming replaced hunting and gathering, and there was a domestication of plants and animals

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Neolithic

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New Stone Age, the time in human history with people began to settle down and domesticate animals and plants for food. It was the final stage of the stone age.

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Polytheism

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To believe in or worship of more than one, God

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Minoans

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A bronze age, civilization that thrive on the island of Creek. They were the first major civilization, and the aegean area and has significant impact on the Mycenaean Greeks

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YHWH

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The Hebrew name for God that appears in the Bible and means to be

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Polis

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Can me and the city state, the government, the population the area or the public life

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Philosophia

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Means love of wisdom it is investigation of thoughts and actions of humans, but not the gods

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Hyksos

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The group of people who moved into Egypt from western Asia around 1800 BCE and some historian say they took over northern Egypt by force

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The iron age

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Marked by the widespread use of iron and smaller societies were in powered. There was no great art and it wasn’t a large empire. There were no great cities and no technological innovations.

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Civilization

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Kings world on top prison Nobles are next trader scribes in artesian were next free farmers, and then slaves were at the bottom

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Acropolis

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An ancient set down, located on a rocky outcrop of the city of Athens, Greece, and contains remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, most famous being the Parthenon

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Anthropomorphism

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Visualized in human forms and as the practice of giving human traits of emotions or intentions to non-human things

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Barbarians

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If you couldn’t speak Greek, then you were a barbarian

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Annealing

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The industrial use of fire for metal

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Synagogue

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Synagogue means a place of assembly were Jews gathered for instruction and worship in the New Testament.

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Why were earliest civilizations and river valleys?

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Rivers provided reliable source of water for agriculture, making it possible to grow surplus crops. This allowed for trade construction of cities, all while offering easy transportation routes through waterways

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What unique about the Hebrews?

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They’re known for monotheism, which is worshiping one God Yahweh known for Judaism, which is a root of Christianity and Islam. They’re known for the Hebrew Bible, and also the Hebrew language.

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What unique about the Greeks?

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The Greeks developed a sophisticated philosophical culture and emphasize logic and reason and the idea of observing the natural world develop mathematics astronomy, and a democracy

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What does languages of historical person from a legendary person?

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A historical person is known to having existed in the past while legendary person is a character and a story that may or may not have been based in fact

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What’s the difference between a pyramid and a ziggurat

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Pyramids developed in Egypt while ziggurats we developed a Mesopotamia. Pyramids have flat walls while ziggurats have several levels. Pyramids were built to tombs inside while ziggurats we’re built to be temples at the top

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Why do civilized people live in a built environment?

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Civilized people live in a built environment for the stable climate for agriculture and trade for architecture and social control

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Why is our culture called the western civilization?

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Our cultural traditions, values and idea originated in geographical west of the ancient world primarily in ancient Greece and Rome, and then spread throughout Europe in its colonies this includes elements, democracy, philosophical Christian, religious believes and artistic styles that developed from origins

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