Fertile Crescent Flashcards
How did Hebrews differ from other ancient people?
Were monotheistic not polytheistic (monotheistic:believed in only 1 god.)
What does polytheistic mean?
Believed in Amy gods and goddesses.
What was the most important religious duty of ancient citizens?
To make their gods happy.
What were temples in the Fertile Crescent called?
Ziggurats.
What stood at the top of each the ziggurat?
A shrine to the chief God or goddesses of the city.
What does it mean when we say that rulers in the ancient world were hereditary leaders?
Leadership was passed from father to son.
What caused conflicts among the first civilization?
The centralized governments.
What developed as a result of the need to control the rivers collect taxes and build public works?
The first centralized government in history.
Why did ancient rulers build large palaces and temples?
To make citizens believe in the power and strength in their rulers or gods.
What did ancient rulers claim to justify authority?
The will of gods.
Before the rise of civilization were nomadic. What does this mean?
They traveled from place to place hunting and gathering food.
How was the behavior of the nomadic people regulated?
Through unwritten customs.
How did ancient people progress in their social organization?
Nomadic clans
To villages
To city states
To empires
These two civilizations developed near these two rivers?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What was the first civilization of the ancient world?
Sumer.
What do all civilizations need to survive?
Resources.
Who developed 3 civilizations?
Medes Hittites Akkadians.
What tasks did the first organization perform?
Write laws,collect taxes,food supply and maintain defense.
Why were the first laws written?
To regulate the behavior of people who were stranger in other cities.
In the ancient world who was specially trained well?
A scribe.
Why did ancient people invent to record grain harvests and keep accurate records of seasons?
Writing.
How did ancient ruler use public works projectsTo ensure the cities food supplies?
Built irrigation systems,roads,bridges and kept record of harvests.
How did ancient rulers use public work projects to provide for the defense of the city?
Built walls around city to protect it from attack.
How did cities change the way people worked?
People specialized for the first time.
Why were people able to specialize in jobs in early civilizations?
Surpluses in food meant people did not have to search for food.
Ranking people according to their jobs led to?
The development of the first social class.
