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Exam 1 Terms Flashcards

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Homo erectus

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  • Flourished 100,000 to 1.5 million years ago
  • Fossils found in Africa, Asia, & Europe
  • Brain capacity between 900-1,200ml
  • Used fire & made stone tools
  • Looked after old & sick
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Australopithecines

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  • Flourished 2 million to 4 million years ago
  • Used bipedal locomotion
  • Ape sized brain
  • Lived in South & East Africa
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Neanderthals

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  • Flourished between 230,000 & 30,000 years ago
  • Average brain size is slightly larger than that of modern humans, about 1450 cc
  • Buried their dead
  • Lived at the same time as the Homo sapiens sapiens
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Homo sapiens sapiens

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  • Modern forms of Homo sapiens first appeared 120,000 years ago
  • Modern humans brain size of about 1350 cc
  • First appeared in Africa but about 50,000 years ago began to spread across Asia, Europe, Australia, & finally N. and S. America.
  • Hunters & gatherers until 13,000 years ago when farming began.
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Largest cities in Mesopotamian Civilization that was created by the Sumerians were:

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  • Eridu
  • Ur
  • Uruk
  • Umma
  • Lagash
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Theocracy

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-Governments were ruled by divine authority

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Akkadians

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  • Briefly conquered Sumer

- Led by Sargon

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Semitic Languages

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  • Assyrians
  • Babylonians
  • Phoenicians
  • Arabic
  • Hebrews
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Hammurabi

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  • An Amorite
  • Establish Old Babylonia as a seat of power
  • He was brilliant militarily for successfully dividing & conquering his opponents
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Code of Hammurabi

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-Collection of 282 laws with a strict system of justice

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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-One of the oldest & most moving stories rooted in the ancient wisdom/tradition of mankind

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Cuneiform

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-Earliest known form of writing, distinguished by its wedge shaped marks on clay tablets

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Paleolithic Age

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  • (Old Stone Age) 1 million to 10,000 B.C.
  • Invented stone tools
  • People were hunters, fishers, & gatherers
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Neolithic Age

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  • 10,000-5,000 B.C.
  • Discovery of agriculture in Western Asia
  • Invention of pottery
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Manetho

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  • He provided the first study of Egyptian History in the 3rd century B.C.
  • We used his list to divide Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
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Old Kingdom

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  • Menes

- Pyramids built

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Requirements to be a civilization:

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  • Must have cities
  • Distinct Religious Structures
  • Military & Political Structures
  • Social Economic Classes
  • Writing
  • Must have significant artistic & intellectual improvements
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Menes

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  • United Upper & Lower Egypt
  • Double Royal Diadem adopted as crown
  • Founded the city of Memphis
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Middle Kingdom

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  • Amenemhet I (Name of Pharaoh first used)

- Golden age for Egypt

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Heliopolis

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Sun cult

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Atum

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Human form

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Re

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Human body with falcon head

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Book of the Dead

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An ancient Egyptian funerary text

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Ka

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Spirit

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Imhotep

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-Famous writer, doctor, & architect who lived & worked in Egypt

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King Khufu

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  • Father of pyramid building
  • Also known by Cheops
  • Ruled from 2551-2528 B.C.
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Second Intermediate Period

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  • Between 1652 B.C. - 1567 B.C.
  • Hyksos, a Semitic people from the Arabian peninsula, invaded Egypt
  • Bronze Age Technology: New warfare such as the chariot, a heavier sword, & the compound bow
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Hieroglyphics

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-Ancient Egyptian formal writing system using pictures

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Ahmose I-18th Dynasty

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  • Overthrew the Hyksos. Reunited Egypt & formed the New Kingdom
  • Launched Egypt on a militaristic/imperialistic path, & employed a professional army
  • Vizers were chosen from military to be in charge of state bureaucracy
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Tutankhamon 1347-1338 B.C.

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  • Became Pharaoh when he was 14
  • Reigned for 8-9 years
  • Only one wife, Ankhesenamun, his half sister
  • Died when he was 25 from an unknown death
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“Sea Peoples”

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-Destroyed Egyptian power in Palestine and drove the Egyptians back to their old frontier borders

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Hatshepsut

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-Only women Pharaoh

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Herodotus

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-Wrote of specializations

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Fringes of Civilization

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  • Neolithic people of Europe also domesticated animals & farmed
  • Megalithic structures: Earliest in Europe 4,000 B.C. (Stonehenge- Best known 2,100 B.C.)
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Abraham

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  • First patriarch, brought Hebrews to Canaan from Northern Mesopotamia
  • Monotheism
  • Yahweh
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Moses

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  • Mt. Sinai
  • Ten Commandments
  • Exodus
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Phoenicians

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-Western Asian society created by trade, not war

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Carthage

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Planted colonies in the Mediterranean

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Assyrians

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  • Homeland: Northern Iraq
  • Spoke Semitic language
  • Army between 100,000 & 200,000 strong
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Royal Road of Persia

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Susa (capital) to Sardis

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Ten Thousand Immortals

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-The King’s personal body guards

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King Cyrus

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-Persian King that conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia within a 20 year period

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Ahura-Mazda

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-god of truth & light

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Ahriman

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-god of evil & darkness

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Polis

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City-states

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Olympic Games

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Began in 776 B.C.

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Sparta

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  • No colonization
  • Constitution of Lycurgus
  • Perpetual military state
  • All citizens are subordinated to the state
  • No private property
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Athens

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  • Evolution from Monarchy to Democracy

- Aristocracy with elected rulers

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Solon

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-Reform & timocracy

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Cleisthenes

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-Rise of Democracy

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Persian Wars 490-479 B.C.

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  • Ionian Revolt
  • Invasion of Greece
  • Marathon
  • defining moment for Western culture
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Tyranny

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Extra-legal rule by one man

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Socrates

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Executed by Athens in 399

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Plato

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Was taught by Socrates

  • Taught in the dialogue form
  • Concerned with how one acquires knowledge
  • Chief concern: ethics
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Aristotle

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Was taught by Plato

  • Primary concern: everything
  • Organization of human knowledge
  • Division of learning into fields & subfields
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Alexander the Great (336-323)

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  • Conquered most of known world
  • Great military leader & ruler
  • Educated student of Aristotle
  • Reorganized governments of conquered areas
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Crete

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Location of Europe’s first civilization…Around 2000 B.C.

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King Minos

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-Ruled a great sea empire from his palace at Knossos

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Hoplites

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-(Infantrymen) Amateur soldiers

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Spartan Government

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Two hereditary kings, a council of elders (gerousia), and an assembly of all equals over 30 (apella)

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Thucydides

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Wrote about war between Athens & Sparta

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Helot

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A member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between salves & citizens

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Messenia

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Regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese

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Pentathlon

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Contest featuring five events

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Plebeian

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Free people. Most were ordinary people, though some were wealthy

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Patricians

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Monopolized the senate & priesthoods, and they did not intermarry with plebeians

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Phalanx

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A body of troops, standing or moving in close formation

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