Exam 1 Flashcards by Brennan Rials

Records made during the time being studied

Primary sources

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Records made to explain primary sources

Secondary sources

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The idea that God has planned all of human history

Divine Province

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Be fruitful and replenish the earth

Creation Mandate

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What is the goal of human history

Redemption in Christ

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Earliest form of writing

Cuneiform

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Land between 2 rivers

Mesopotamia

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Belief in one god

Monotheism

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What are the Egyptian kingdoms

Old, middle, and new

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Which kingdom is known as the age of pharaohs

Old kingdom

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Under whose rule did Babylon reach its peak

Nebuchadnezzar

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Jewish dispersion

Diaspora

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First woman ruler of Egypt

Hatshepsut

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Poet of the Greek dark ages/ wrote Iliad and Oddysey

Homer

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What island was the center of Minoan civilization

Crete

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What four forms of government were adopted by the Greeks

Monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy

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Father of History

Herodotus

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Basic political unit of Greece

Polis

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A fortified hill

Acropolis

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League of Greek city-states led by Sparta

Peloponnesian league

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Who fought in the peloponnesian war

Athens and Sparta

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Which emperor conquered the near east and spread Greek culture

Alexander

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Formal study of human thought and culture

Humanities

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“Know thyself”

Socrates

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“Our sea” referring to the Mediterranean

Mare Nostrum

What year was Rome founded

509 BC

2 forms of Roman government

Monarchy and republic

Roman social classes

Patricians and plebeians

3 rulers of triumvirate

Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar

Caesar’s assasination

“Ides” of March

Where did Rome begin

Tiber River and Apennine Mts.

What does crossing the rubicon mean

Making a fateful decision in which there is no turning back

North African city that rivaled Rome for trade

Carthage

What happened at the Battle of Zama

Scipio defeated Hannibal

Who established a calendar that our own is based on

Julius Caesar

Fall of Rome

476 AD

First official Christian persecution

Nero

Last and most widespread persecution

Diocletian

Made Christianity official religion of Rome

Theodosius

Capital of East Roman Empire/ Byzantine

Constantinople

Octavian

Julius Caesar

Destroyed Jerusalem

Titus

Roman peace- period under Octavian with peace and prosperity

Pax Romana

Made Christianity legal

Edict of Milan

Be happy

Epicureanism

Goal of Justinian’s reign

Restore Roman Empire’s greatness

Justinian’s wife

Theodora

Constantinople’s biggest commercial rival

Venice

Center of Russian state

Kiev

“The wise”

Yaroslav

Largest group in Russia; ancestors played a major role in establishing the Russian state

Slavs

Central discipline taught by Koran

Belief in one god

Pillars of Islam

Shahada, salat, zakat, sawm, hajj

Last and greatest of Allahs prophets

Muhammad

Arab nomads

Bedouins

God of Islam

Allah

Tower in mosque in which muezzin calls Muslims to prayer

Minaret

Person who calls Muslims to prayer

Muezzin

Submission to Allah

Islam

Submitter to Allah

Muslims

Stopped Muslim advance into Europe

Battle of Tours

Poet of Augustan Age

Horace

First Caliph

Abu Bakr

Josephus

Jewish historian

Prince of Moscow

Ivan III

First shogun

Yoritomo

According to legend he is the first emperor of Japan

Jimmu Tenno

Spread Buddhism- Indian ruler

Asoka

Most successful Mughal ruler

Akbar

Chinese emperor who conquered Russia and moved into Hungary and Poland- “Golden Horde”

Batu Khan

Completed conquests of China; established yuan dynasty

Kublai Khan

Mongolian leader who destroyed Deli

Tamerlane

Founder of mauryan empire

Chandragupta

Made Buddhism the favored religion in China

Prince Shotoku

Lasted from 322 BC to 185 BC and was ruled by Chandragupta- militaristic empire

Mauryan

4th century Indian empire under which India had perhaps its greatest era of prosperity and achievements

Gupta

“Do unto others as you would want others to do to you”

Confucianism

harmony with nature- “the weak will overcome the strong and the soft will overcome the hard

Taoism

Built on works and moral behavior; founded by siddharth Gautama- 4 noble truths

Buddhism

Brahman- Indian religion with a unifying influence

Hinduism

Originally a form of nature worship that focuses on the way of the gods

Shintoism

Conduct and code of samurai; the way of the warrior

Bushido