Exam Review: 600BCE Flashcards
neolithic
new stone age
Lascaux Cave
cave w/ cabe paintings, lets us know foragers have time for art
Effects of Neolithic Revolution
agriculture/domestication of animals
Catalhuyuk
earliest city ever found, in turkey, entered thru roof
beginning of bronze age and iron age
4000 BC for bronze
1000 BC for iron
civilization
pirates chart
sumaria
one of the first mesoamerican civilizations, was polytheistic, had ziggurats(step temples), and cuneiform(wedge writing)
Akkadia
was the first empire, king was king SARGON
babylon
had king hammurabi, hammurabi code: eye for eye, was patriarchal
Hittites
nomads from asia minor, indo european language, used iron, captured babylon
phoenicians
or canaanites, ship builders, sea ppl, started Carthage, alphabet
Israel
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
Assyria
iron, military terrorized, took Israel, used horse relay for communication, Semitic speaking, called “wrath of god” Nineva= capital, skinned alive, cut off noses
Persians
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)
Egypt
red land=dry, black land=rich, fertile soil, upper/lower nile switched, king menes, hieratic script, child marriages, 365 day calendar
Old Egypt
bureaucracy(appointed officials), pyramids by Khufu, mummification, Ka(a person’s spirit)
Middle Egypt
golden age, pharaohs to provide for ppl, canal from nile to red sea, Hyksos invaded
Hyksos
had horse drawn chariots composite bot, expelled by egyptians Kamose and Ahmose
New Egypt
brone, HatSHEpsut was the woman pharaoh, Akhenaton made monotheistic, Tutankhamen made polytheistic again, Held Israelites captive
Ramses 2
monumental building projects, had a room for all over 80 of his kids in his temple.
Paleolithic
Means- old stone age
Minoan Crete
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”
Mycenaean Greece
Homer’s Iliad/Odyssey is about, attack of troy, towns on hills w/fortifications
Shaft Graves
mycenaean Greece, rectangular burial w/ floor of pebbles, walls of rubble, and roof of wooden planks
carthage
navy controlled med trade, elite sacrificed children, ethnically diverse, phoneicans state
Neo-Babylonia
metropolis, Nebuchadnezzar, hanging gardens, “new babylon”
India
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
Hinduism
Braham an, reincarnation, karma, darma(incarnation) reinforced caste system
Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama, letting go of physical to reach enlightenment
Vedas
Mahabrata, Bhagavad Gita(die is good for honour), stupa(buddhist temple), algebra, 0, vedic age before organized gvt in india
China
Huang He & Yangtze rivers, dynastic cycle
Shang
capital at Anyang, oracle bones, ancestor worship, bronze casting
Zhou
Mandate of Heaven(permission by god to rule) filial piety(responsibility to family), iron weapons& plows, pictographs, ideographs.
