Foundations Period Flashcards
What was the nomatic group of people that invaded greese called before they were called the Greeks
Hellenes
what was the leading Greek city state
Ahtens
What was early greek life like in the homeric Age?
Poems of homer that explaine the war against troy
Tribal-like life
Meny were farmers
constaint Warfair
Olimpic Gods
Who were the the two migrating groups from the furtile cresent?
and where were they going?
Indo/Eropeans-N. Of Himalayas
Bantu- In Central West Africa
Name 5 Of The Behaviors of Homoaspiens.
Survival, Spread around the world, huning/gathering, settlements, tool sophistication, language, art, and domestication of animals.
Notice not Farming or Agriculture.
Romans had a (Government)
Representative Democracy
Define Empire
Extension of rule over anouther contry
Bringing together of Diverse People Under 1 Rule
What city state had the strongest military ?
Sparta
which nomads defete the romans
Celts, Germans, Huns, Goths
(Aleric-gothic king 476 AD)
What was the name for lower class romens
Pleabians
T or F
CIties Did little to alter human life
False, CItes:
- Altered the enviroment for survival
- New means of transportation
- Begins the bronse age
Xerxes leads what battles?
Thermopylae (Persia gains advantage), Salamis and Platea (Greese Wins)
With The Creation of Ciries people had to organize them selfes. In What Ways?
DIvide into Social Hierarchies
Develop specific jobs to benifet the whole
Record keeping divelops (Sumer C. 3300 BCE)
Why Does China never have a Dark age?
Because it is coinsedently isolated geograficaly and it allways builds on the old
What are the 5 reasons empires fail?
- Failure Of Leadership
- overextenshion of rule
- collapse of economy
- doubts of the ideology
- military defeat
Ancient Greece was geograficaly a
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
THe Greeks were: (Religion)
Polytheists
Examples:
Pnthenon of Olympic gods
Olympic games to honor the gods evey 4 years
First Chinesse Dynasty
Xia
5W Hammurabi
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.
Define Hegemony
Join your empire because they like you
ROme is geograficaly a ______
Penninsula
Italy
Who won the battle of marathon?
Greeks
Then Pheidippides Runs 26 miles to spread good news
Where Were The fisrt Human Villages Found that practiced agriculture?
The Furtial Cresent
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
Darias I
Who was Darius’s son?
Xerxes
Name the 5 Earliest empires
From Mesopotamia:
Sargonid
Babolonian
Hittites
Assyrians
From Egyipt:
Middle Kingdom–> New Kingdom
why did the hellenes come to ancient greece?
They Were looking for fertial land
Who led the concuests of the Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians?
Cyrus The Great (558-529 BCE) Persian Empire
He also made a point to respect the traditions of the people he conqured
Define Domenance In terms of Empires
An Empire Barges in and Takes over without free will of the concered
Which was the shortest dynasty
- Zhou
- Xia
- Qin
- Han
- Song
Qin
In What ways can historians prove that anchient people needed religon
sactified their
- TIme - Calandars
- Space - Shrines
- Literature - books
- Creativity - ie: Mericales
- Organisation - Priesly Calsses
WHy when Rome gethered tomuch land it started to collapse?
The govenment was designed around small city staes and they were not ready for a growing empire
Rome Was (Religon)
Polythistic and Made The Emporer a god as well
