Exam 1 Flashcards
Neolithic Revolution
Located in the Mesopotamia area and was known for leading to food surplus and creating more inventions because of them not migrating to other areas to find food. THe fertile crescent has good soil and weather and wild animals so it gave them a comfortable life.
Mesopotamia
who - a collection of different societies
what - land between two rivers
where - modern-day Iraq
why- high advanced in writing, math, astrology
What is history
why - came from Herodotus the display of the inquiry - write it down so nothing will be forgotten and understand what caused wars.
when - during the Stone Age
who - hunter-gathers
hunters-gathers
who - people in civilizations
what - made durable tool from stones
Known for - cave paintings and figurines
social hierarchy developed
Sumerians
who - first civilization
what - first established civilization in Mesopotamia
where - Mesopotamia
when - bronze age
inventions - wheels and plows - farming
cuneiform
who - the sumerians
what- developed the first writing
during the bronze age
hieroglyphs
who - Egyptians
what - sacred writings that is a written language that uses syllables
when - Egyptian time
why - needed a language
Hammurabi code
who - Hammurabi
what - first written law code
where- Mesopotamia
when - bronze code
why - first written law code - rules that everyone can refer to
Assyrians
who - descendants of the summer Akkadians
what - spoke the Semitic language in Mesopotamia
where - Mesopotamia
why - known for them fileting other people’s skin off while they where alive.
Persian empire
who - unique empire - Cyrus the Great was the only non-Jewish person who conquered - pretty nice conqueror.
what - founder of Achaemenid empire
where - modern-day Egypt
when - Persian empire
why - innovative conquerors
Hebrews
ancestors of the Jewish people come from the sacred writings of scripture.
Egypt
runs along the nile river
known for their good agriculture
hatshepsut
who - one of the first great women who has been in history
what - a phero who opened trade rights - building projects
where - Egypt
was the first woman to hold a political standpoint in Egyptian history
Rosetta Stone
what - is a stone in London - was able to learn hydraulics because it had 3 languages on it so people were able to translate it from the Greek language on the stone
Enheduanna
who - surgeon’s daughter
what - wrote short poems
where - Mesopotamia
where - bronze era
why - world’s first female writer
Minoan
who - a little island
what - there is a written language that there is no way to translate - only rely on architecture.
where - in the Mediterranean
hieroglyphs have 2 types linear a and linear b
tsunami was connected to the fall of the civilization
got all their money from purple dye
linear B
what - a writing language used in the early greek society
fall of society was because of the
sea peoples
who - we don’t know
what - people sailing the sea
all we know is that they would conquer all over and then they got crushed when they went to Rameses 111 place
ilad, odyssey
book about a war - about achilles being a warrior in the war
Minoan and Mycenaean influences
Linear a and linear b writing, architecture, art.
Homer
wrote the book and There might have been multiple authors. He was blind so he uses oral composition to then tell the stories of Iliad and odyssey. He was from Greece and write the book in Greece.
Myth
this guy got rich from the califiornia goldrush and then tried to find the lost cities from ilian and odyssey
Oral Composition
Homes used oral composition because he was blind so he wrote while talking. It is a way of creating a book or poem without writing
Odysseus
The book as about odysey returning from the same war as Iliad and it was a 10 year journey
