Final World Civlizations Flashcards
What is the geographical feature that allowed the Egyptian Civilization to arise?
Nile river
Why were scribes highly valued in Egypt?
Read and write
What is the process by which Egyptians preserved bodies?
Mummification
What it the object that allowed archeologists to decipher hieroglyphics?
Rosetta stone
Who was the famous Egyptian “boy king”? (He restored polytheism to Egypt. His tomb is the only Ancient Egyptian tomb found intact.)
King tut
Who was the first female pharaoh?
Hatshepsut
What were the large Egyptian structures that were built to serve as tombs?(King Khufu’s was the largest)
Pyramids
Who led the enslaved Hebrew people out of Egypt?
Moses
The first recorded law was based on the idea of an “eye for an eye”, what is the name of this law code?
Hammurabi code
What were the names of the two poems written by Homer?
Iliad, odyssey
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
Who was the blind poet who wrote two epic Greek poems?
Homer
Who was the leader of the second Babylonian or Chaldean empire?
Nebasiosnezzar
What is the title of the ancient Assyrian tale of the friendship between a man and a beast?
The epic of Gilgamesh
What city is important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Jerusalem
What is monotheism?
Belief in one god
Who was the Mycenaean king that led the attack against Troy?
Agamemnon
Which empire of the Fertile Crescent used military prowess and use of terror? (They were known as the cruel empire)
Assyrians
Who was the son of Cyrus that extended the Persian Empire to India and Europe?
Darius
Who was the Greek hero that was full of anger in the lliad?
Achilles
Who is the Greek hero who is the subject of the Oddyssey?
Odysseus
What is a polis?
A city-state
Who was the major Greek god?
Zues
List the three major Greek philosophers.
Socrates, Pluto, Aristotle
