Final Exam 2024 Flashcards
(93 cards)
What is the study of society’s interaction with the past?
History
What was a victory parade held in honor of a victorious Roman commander?
Triumph
What means “land between the rivers? in Greek?
Mesopotamia
This is a Roman army unit with approximately 4800 men.
Legion
What systems use canals and dams to bring water from rivers to fields?
Irrigation
What is the belief in only one god?
Monotheism
What title means “great house”?
Pharaoh
Name the tablet that enabled the French to decipher hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
Who were the nomads who used chariots to conquer Egypt around 1660 B.C.?
Hyksos
What was the trade route called that brought Chinese goods as far west as Rome?
Silk Road
Wind patterns that bring heavy rainfall to India during the summer are called what?
Monsoons
An escape from self, suffering, and reincarnation in Buddhism is called what?
Nirvana
What is the pass that provides access to India through the Hindu Kush Mountains called?
Khyber
What is the title that means “Enlightened One”?
Buddha
The first traces of human activity were found where?
The Great Rift Valley
Who was the king that built the first temple in Jerusalem to honor Yahweh?
Solomon
“prehistoric” refers to the period before the development of what?
Writing
What was the development that defined the Neolithic Revolution?
Agriculture
What innovation was developed in Sumer?
The wheel
What civilization first developed an alphabet?
Phoenicia
Who was the pharaoh that brought the Egyptian Empire to its largest size ever?
Thutmose III
Who was the ruler that united the northern and southern Egyptian kingdoms around 3100 B.C.?
Menes
The first female pharaoh in Egyptian history to rule was who?
Hatshepsut
Each Egyptian pharaoh’s most important responsibility was what?
To preserve maat