Exam Review: 600BCE

Question 1

neolithic

Answer 1

new stone age

Question 2

Lascaux Cave

Answer 2

cave w/ cabe paintings, lets us know foragers have time for art

Question 3

Effects of Neolithic Revolution

Answer 3

agriculture/domestication of animals

Question 4

Catalhuyuk

Answer 4

earliest city ever found, in turkey, entered thru roof

Question 5

beginning of bronze age and iron age

Answer 5

4000 BC for bronze

1000 BC for iron

Question 6

civilization

Answer 6

pirates chart

Question 7

sumaria

Answer 7

one of the first mesoamerican civilizations, was polytheistic, had ziggurats(step temples), and cuneiform(wedge writing)

Question 8

Akkadia

Answer 8

was the first empire, king was king SARGON

Question 9

babylon

Answer 9

had king hammurabi, hammurabi code: eye for eye, was patriarchal

Question 10

Hittites

Answer 10

nomads from asia minor, indo european language, used iron, captured babylon

Question 11

phoenicians

Answer 11

or canaanites, ship builders, sea ppl, started Carthage, alphabet

Question 12

Israel

Answer 12

semitic language, had abraham=father of religion, jerusalem, monotheistic, women had some rights but couldn’t own property, solomon was the leader for the golden age

Question 13

Assyria

Answer 13

iron, military terrorized, took Israel, used horse relay for communication, Semitic speaking, called “wrath of god” Nineva= capital, skinned alive, cut off noses

Question 14

Persians

Answer 14

nomads, indo european, cyrus the great was the first king and was good to conquered ppl, son darius invaded greece but defeated at battle of marathon, created satraps(regions/states)

Question 15

Egypt

Answer 15

red land=dry, black land=rich, fertile soil, upper/lower nile switched, king menes, hieratic script, child marriages, 365 day calendar

Question 16

Old Egypt

Answer 16

bureaucracy(appointed officials), pyramids by Khufu, mummification, Ka(a person’s spirit)

Question 17

Middle Egypt

Answer 17

golden age, pharaohs to provide for ppl, canal from nile to red sea, Hyksos invaded

Question 18

Hyksos

Answer 18

had horse drawn chariots composite bot, expelled by egyptians Kamose and Ahmose

Question 19

New Egypt

Answer 19

brone, HatSHEpsut was the woman pharaoh, Akhenaton made monotheistic, Tutankhamen made polytheistic again, Held Israelites captive

Question 20

Ramses 2

Answer 20

monumental building projects, had a room for all over 80 of his kids in his temple.

Question 21

Paleolithic

Answer 21

Means- old stone age

Question 22

Minoan Crete

Answer 22

King was Minos, story of the minotaur/labrynth derived from him, had navy, pottery, and a fertility goddess, was surrounded by water “wall of water”

Question 23

Mycenaean Greece

Answer 23

Homer’s Iliad/Odyssey is about, attack of troy, towns on hills w/fortifications

Question 24

Shaft Graves

Answer 24

mycenaean Greece, rectangular burial w/ floor of pebbles, walls of rubble, and roof of wooden planks

Question 25

carthage

Answer 25

navy controlled med trade, elite sacrificed children, ethnically diverse, phoneicans state

Question 26

Neo-Babylonia

Answer 26

metropolis, Nebuchadnezzar, hanging gardens, “new babylon”

Question 27

India

Answer 27

Himalaya mtns, indus river, monsoons harappa, mohenjo daro, indo europeans brought sanskrit, rajas(king like), patriarchal, sutee(throw the women on fire), varnas(caste system), had civilizations on the river

Question 28

Hinduism

Answer 28

Braham an, reincarnation, karma, darma(incarnation) reinforced caste system

Question 29

Buddhism

Answer 29

Siddhartha Gautama, letting go of physical to reach enlightenment

Question 30

Vedas

Answer 30

Mahabrata, Bhagavad Gita(die is good for honour), stupa(buddhist temple), algebra, 0, vedic age before organized gvt in india

Question 31

China

Answer 31

Huang He & Yangtze rivers, dynastic cycle

Question 32

Shang

Answer 32

capital at Anyang, oracle bones, ancestor worship, bronze casting

Question 33

Zhou

Answer 33

Mandate of Heaven(permission by god to rule) filial piety(responsibility to family), iron weapons& plows, pictographs, ideographs.