Exam One Study Guide Flashcards
Female pharaoh who had herself portrayed as a man in statues. Promoted trade with the kingdom of Punt, to the South.
Hatshepsut
Indo-European people who established a capital at Hattusas in modern-day Turkey about 1500 bce. A military power in their day, they had a king whose power was limited by a council of nobles.
Hittites
Babylonian ruler who had the Ishtar gate built and who deported the people of Jerusalem to begin the Babylonian Captivity.
Nebuchadnezzar
Merchant people who lived along the sea coast of Palestine and were important as merchants in the Mediterranean. They set up many colonies, including Carthage.
Phoenicians
High god of the Persians; Zoroaster promoted him as the one true god, the protector of goodness and light; he was opposed by Ahiram, the chief force of evil.
Ahura Mazda
Neolithic city that was an exception to the norm that Neolithic settlements were small; it was a small city with walls that was inhabited perhaps as early as 8,000 BCE and was surrounded by walls.
Jericho
Father of the Cyclops
Poseidon
Mesopotamian myth that describes the quest for immortality by an ancient Sumerian king who hears of another man who survived a great flood.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The typical way that a people in a given culture depict the same thing.
artistic convention
“Excellence” and also the name of the queen of the Phaiacians.
Arête
Akkadian ruler who, in about 2350 BCE, established the first empire in world history.
Sargon
Which elements combine to make “ma’at”?
truth, justice, order and integrity
The great palace of the kings in Knossos on Crete was known as what?
the labyrinth
Ruler of Pylos; Telemachus looked to him as a father figure and come to him to ask about where his actual father was.
Nestor
Ring-leader of the suitors.
Antinous
