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What was the nomatic group of people that invaded greese called before they were called the Greeks

A

Hellenes

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2
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what was the leading Greek city state

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Ahtens

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3
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What was early greek life like in the homeric Age?

A

Poems of homer that explaine the war against troy

Tribal-like life

Meny were farmers

constaint Warfair

Olimpic Gods

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4
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Who were the the two migrating groups from the furtile cresent?

and where were they going?

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Indo/Eropeans-N. Of Himalayas

Bantu- In Central West Africa

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5
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Name 5 Of The Behaviors of Homoaspiens.

A

Survival, Spread around the world, huning/gathering, settlements, tool sophistication, language, art, and domestication of animals.

Notice not Farming or Agriculture.

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6
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Romans had a (Government)

A

Representative Democracy

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7
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Define Empire

A

Extension of rule over anouther contry

Bringing together of Diverse People Under 1 Rule

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8
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What city state had the strongest military ?

A

Sparta

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9
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which nomads defete the romans

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Celts, Germans, Huns, Goths

(Aleric-gothic king 476 AD)

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10
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What was the name for lower class romens

A

Pleabians

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11
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T or F

CIties Did little to alter human life

A

False, CItes:

  • Altered the enviroment for survival
  • New means of transportation
  • Begins the bronse age
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12
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Xerxes leads what battles?

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Thermopylae (Persia gains advantage), Salamis and Platea (Greese Wins)

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13
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With The Creation of Ciries people had to organize them selfes. In What Ways?

A

DIvide into Social Hierarchies

Develop specific jobs to benifet the whole

Record keeping divelops (Sumer C. 3300 BCE)

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14
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Why Does China never have a Dark age?

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Because it is coinsedently isolated geograficaly and it allways builds on the old

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15
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What are the 5 reasons empires fail?

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  1. Failure Of Leadership
  2. overextenshion of rule
  3. collapse of economy
  4. doubts of the ideology
  5. military defeat
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16
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Ancient Greece was geograficaly a

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Peninula

Meaning

Lots of fishing and deep harbors for trading

Mountains Caused for insuficent Farmland

only Farmland was sparce making national unity difficult thus City States form

17
Q

THe Greeks were: (Religion)

A

Polytheists

Examples:

Pnthenon of Olympic gods

Olympic games to honor the gods evey 4 years

18
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First Chinesse Dynasty

A

Xia

19
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5W Hammurabi

A

A ruler / Lawmaker From Mesopotaimia, the middle east, c. 1500 BCE who created the first human written law.this law stated the first law of fairness that was used for the ruling of mesopotamia for years to come.

20
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Define Hegemony

A

Join your empire because they like you

21
Q

ROme is geograficaly a ______

A

Penninsula

Italy

22
Q

Who won the battle of marathon?

A

Greeks

Then Pheidippides Runs 26 miles to spread good news

23
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Where Were The fisrt Human Villages Found that practiced agriculture?

A

The Furtial Cresent

24
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Which Persian Ruler divided the empire into administrative units(satrapies)Built a road sysetem to span the empire, Standardized the money, paid laborers, and inproved the quality of palaces and tempels

A

Darias I

25
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Who was Darius’s son?

A

Xerxes

26
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Name the 5 Earliest empires

A

From Mesopotamia:

Sargonid

Babolonian

Hittites

Assyrians

From Egyipt:

Middle Kingdom–> New Kingdom

27
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why did the hellenes come to ancient greece?

A

They Were looking for fertial land

28
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Who led the concuests of the Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians?

A

Cyrus The Great (558-529 BCE) Persian Empire

He also made a point to respect the traditions of the people he conqured

29
Q

Define Domenance In terms of Empires

A

An Empire Barges in and Takes over without free will of the concered

30
Q

Which was the shortest dynasty

  • Zhou
  • Xia
  • Qin
  • Han
  • Song
A

Qin

31
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In What ways can historians prove that anchient people needed religon

A

sactified their

  • TIme - Calandars
  • Space - Shrines
  • Literature - books
  • Creativity - ie: Mericales
  • Organisation - Priesly Calsses
32
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WHy when Rome gethered tomuch land it started to collapse?

A

The govenment was designed around small city staes and they were not ready for a growing empire

33
Q

Rome Was (Religon)

A

Polythistic and Made The Emporer a god as well

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