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Question 1

The code of Hammurabi identified three distinct classes in Mesopotamia

Answer 1

The free land owning class - royal family . Priests. Warriors. High gov officials . Merchants

A class of dependent farmers and craftsmen worked for the free land owning class

Slaves, who do domestic work and less desirable jobs outside the homes

Question 2

Earliest civilization

Answer 2

Mesopotamia
Two rivers the Tigris and Euphrates

Crossroads for diverse groups

Question 3

Many early settlers were members of which language family

Answer 3

Semitic language family

Question 4

Who are the non-Semitic group called that came into a lower Mesopotamia about 5000 BCE

Answer 4

Sumerians

Question 5

Sumerians created competing

Answer 5

City states

Centered in a large town that governed countryside around it

Question 6

The Sumerian city states were not politically unified until 23000 when an invading Semitic group led by Who conquered the area

Answer 6

Sargon the great

Question 7

Sargon the great founded the

Answer 7

Akkadian empire

Question 8

As a result of the political conquest of the Akkadian empire

Answer 8

Cultural diffusion of Sumerian ways spread which influenced Mesopotamia to Egypt which became the Fertile Crescent

Question 9

What city state replaced the Akkad in power

Answer 9

Ur rose

Gov bureaucracy grew
SYS of messengers and road stations sped up communication in area

Question 10

In 1700’s Hammurabi led who do conquer Mesopotamia

Answer 10

Babylonians

Over the centuries Hittites in 1500s BCE Assyrians and new Babylonians also came through

Question 11

Common characteristics were both in

Egypt was ….for much time

Answer 11

River valleys

Isolated

Question 12

Egypt was protected by cataracts

Answer 12

Areas where the water was too swift and Rocky to allowed boats to pass

Question 13

What marker event occurred under the Babylonians

Answer 13

The first written law code called HAMMUrabis code

Shows beliefs and customs of the Mesopotamia people

Question 14

Flooding in Egypt was

Answer 14

Regular and predictable

Could take preventative measures

Flooding in Mesopotamia was unpredictable
They were gloomy and resigned to fate

Egypt ppl more optimistic to control their destinies

Question 15

Who created bronze

And did Egyptians use it

Answer 15

3000 BCE Mesopotamia metal workers invented bronze

Egyptians didn’t use this until after 17th century when attacked and defeated by HYKSOS (turkey) Egypt didn’t have any cuz their natural environment

Question 16

Egypts political system reflected importance of

Answer 16

Reflected the importance of religious beliefs

Pharaoh

Question 17

Ancient Egypts political history often divided into three eras

Answer 17

The old kingdom

The Middle Kingdom

The new kingdom

Question 18

The major cities of INDUS River valley

What did they speak

Answer 18

Mohenjo- Daro

Harappa

Dravidian language

Question 19

Who were the Indus River valley ppl conquered by

Answer 19

The Aryans invaders from the northwest

Question 20

Egyptian religion was ….

Answer 20

Polytheistic

Strongly associated w agriculture

Question 21

Amon re

Isis

Osiris

Answer 21

God of sun

Goddess of the Nile and fertility

Ruler of the afterlife

Question 22

System failure

Answer 22

A breakdown of the political social and economic systems supported it

Question 23

East Asia developed ?

Answer 23

Independently

Question 24

Analects

Answer 24

A collection of Confucianism

Question 25

Cosmopolitanism

Answer 25

The shares cultures and lifestyles that result when diff groups are in regular contact

Question 26

Egypt - the new kingdom of Egypt began after the defeat of hyksos

It..

Answer 26

Egypt no longer isolated civilization got ties w Western Asia and got large army

Question 27

Ppl who lived in Crete

Answer 27

Minoans

Question 28

Minoan civilization replaced by who?

Answer 28

Mycenae

Were at war w city of Troy

Lots of invasions to Crete so the Mycenaeans abandoned and Aegean area turned into dark age

Question 29

After fall of Mycenae civilization Greek cities emerged they were isolated until

Answer 29

The Phoenicians visited the Aegean reestablishing trade Middle East and Greece

Question 30

Spartan women

Vs

Athens

Answer 30

Sparta women were free and equal w men were physically fit
Sparta run by women cuz men at war

Athens gender inequality defined confined to the home DIDNT HAVE POLITICAL RIGHTS NOR COULD THEY OWN PROPERTY OR BUISNESSES were citizens tho

Question 31

Indus River valley construction suggests

Answer 31

Well organized gov plan and fortifications

Question 32

Zhou overthrew who?

And claimed could rule bc of what

Answer 32

Shang

Mandate of Heaven

Question 33

Polis were

Grew up how

Answer 33

City state

Cooperated together in inter city organization aka leagues

Independently

Question 34

Solon

Answer 34

Most important oligarch of Athens set up laws that can be re written and revised

Question 35

Rebellion put who In control and what did he do

Answer 35

Cleisthenes

Experimented w democracy

Question 36

Who was the council of 500

Answer 36

Citizens chose and they were responsible for implementing policy

Question 37

Mecca was founded by who

Answer 37

Umayyad clan of Quraysh Bedouin tribe

Question 38

The most revered shrine

And the sacred rock is held

Answer 38

The Ka’ba and the black stone

Question 39

Why was is impossible to unite the bedouins

Answer 39

Wars between rival clans

Question 40

Animism

Answer 40

Spirits residing in ordinary objects and polytheism

Bedouin

Question 41

Who did the Umayyad political leaders feel threatened by

And why

Answer 41

Muhammad

Saw new faith as danger to Mecca status as a pilgrimage destination for those that traveled to Ka’ba

Question 42

Islam became universalizing religion bc

Answer 42

Adherents spread the new faith

It’s principles appeared broadly to people of many different cultural backgrounds

Question 43

Muhammad fateful flight to medina aka

Answer 43

HijrAh marks date of new religion