History test

Question 1

What prompted people to work together in early Sumer?

Answer 1

People were prompted to work together to increase their chances of survival.

Question 2

What might one learn by reading gilgamesh?

Answer 2

The bible was not just made up, the stories existed before the bible and have historical accuracy.

Question 3

What was the role of the king in the Sumerian society?

Answer 3

The king governed the people and kept order, he was the military leader, and religious leader.

Question 4

List the social classes

Answer 4

Upper Class- Priests, Kings, Scribes.
Middle Class- Commoners, Merchants, Artisans.
Lower Class- Slaves, peasant farmers.

Question 5

How did Cuneiform come about?

Answer 5

The Sumerians created cuneiform from a system of pictographs to a system of symbols to represent a single letter or sound.

Question 6

How did Sumerian civilization influence later civilizations?

Answer 6

Newcomers adopted many Sumerian ideas, such as, cuneiform, agricultural based economies, government structures, mathematical ideas, technological ideas, and the beginning of a trade base.

Question 7

What were the sumerian mathematical ideas

Answer 7

rules of 60, 60 sec-one minute, 60 min-one hour, 360 circle, calendars, sorting of the year which later became the zodiac signs.

Question 8

Who is Saragon?

Answer 8

Saragon created and ruled the first empire in southern mesopotamia.

Question 9

When did Saragon rule?

Answer 9

2300 BC

Question 10

Who is Hammurabi?

Answer 10

Hammurabi was a Babylonian king famous for his laws.

Question 11

When Did Hammurabi rule?

Answer 11

2000 BC

Question 12

Why was Hammurabi’s code a great achivement?

Answer 12

It was the first major collection of laws in history

Question 13

who were the Babylonians?

Answer 13

The babylonians had a strong government, Babylon was a major trade center, their society was similar to that of ancient Egypt. Ends with the advancement of the hittites. 2000-1600

Question 14

Who were the Hittites?

Answer 14

Asia minor, well organized kingdom, regional “super power.” clay tablets, first iron wepons, three man chariots, less harsh legal system. 1600-1180 BC

Question 15

What was the Hittite’s capitol?

Answer 15

Hattusas

Question 16

Who were the Assyrians?

Answer 16

mentioned in the bible, agressive warriors, nothern mesopotamia, foot soilders, chariots, invented calavry. Harsh overloards, well organized empire, clay tablet library. Road networks. Beoucractic goverment. 900BC

Question 17

What was the Assyrian Capitol?

Answer 17

Nineveh

Question 18

who were the neo-babylonians?

Answer 18

The Chaldeans, king Nebuchadnezzar, Babylonian exile when they capture the jews, fall to the persians in 539BC.

Question 19

Who was Cyrus II?

Answer 19

Cyrus II was the persian leader who allowed the jews to go back to their home, the bible says good things about him. Cyrus the great, build huge empire, took the most advanced technology from the places they conquered and made it better/their own.

Question 20

Who was the Persian leader after Cyrus?

Answer 20

Cryrus II’s cousin, Darius I becomes the leader after his death. Darius was intellegent, no slaves, master builder.

Question 21

Persian Dispatch riders

Answer 21

Kind of like the pony express, they used the royal road to get things to people as fast as possible. They could cover the entire royal road in 11 days.

Question 22

What was the dispatch riders saying?

Answer 22

Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stays these couriers from their appointed rounds.

Question 23

What was the capitol of Persia?

Answer 23

Persepolis

Question 24

Who sucseeds Darius?

Answer 24

His son, Xerxes.

Question 25

who were the immortals?

Answer 25

Persian figures who were qickly replaced every time one of them died so it seemd like they were immortal.

Question 26

What was the persian religion?

Answer 26

Zoroasternism, good vs evil, final judgement.

Question 27

Who were the Arameans?

Answer 27

Damascus, Syria. Their langauge, Aremeian became the langauge of diplomacy, replaced in modern day by Arabic.

Question 28

Who were the Pheonicians?

Answer 28

Merchants of the Medeteranian, Cannanites of the bible, they adapted cuneiform to be closer to the alphabet we have today. colonies, loose confederation of city states that spread through trade. exellent sailors.

Question 29

Who were the Lydians?

Answer 29

Modern Turkey, powerful and rich from natural resciurces of gold, wood, ect. Develope a regional trade center where they tax people and become very rich. They intoduce the oncept of coins and money.

Question 30

Who was Croesus?

Answer 30

king of lydia taken over by cyrus.

Question 31

What was the land of the Isralites?

Answer 31

Abraham was the father, they belived in one god, yahweh, judaism. settle in the land of Cannan and fight against the Cannanites (David and Goliath) for control of the land. before they migrate to Egypt. They have 12 tribes, and judges.

Question 32

Who was the most influential Isralite judge?

Answer 32

Deborah

Question 33

Who was Saul?

Answer 33

Unites Isreal

Question 34

Who was David?

Answer 34

King of Jeruselum

Question 35

Who was Solomon?

Answer 35

David’s son, builds temple.

Question 36

The 12 tribes

Answer 36

10 nothern tribes in Isreal and the 2 southern ones in Judah.

Question 37

Why was the Torah created?

Answer 37

To preserve juish culture when they were captured by the babylonians.

Question 38

Why did the Isrealites go to Egypt, and what happened there?

Answer 38

Joseph interperted a famine in the pharophs dream, and moved his family to Egypt. The Pharoph at the time welcomed them but when a new one came to power he enslaved them.

Question 39

What did Nebuchadnezzer do when he captured the Isrealites?

Answer 39

He destroyed their temple and forced them into exile in babylon.