Key Terms Flashcards
Cradle of Civilization
A location and culture where a complex Society was developed sans influence of other civilizations.
Key elements
* Seditary non-nomadic population
*agriculture surplus that can sustain the population, government, public works, military
*Written language
*Monumental architecture
What/Who are Israelites?
A Semitic-speaking tribe from the ancient Middle East who settled in Canaan as early as 1200 BCE.
Descending from the Hebrew patriarchal Jacob
- Abraham-Isaac-Jacob - 12 Sons
Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Issachar, Zevulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Joseph, Benjamin.
Where does the term Palestine originate from?
The Greeks began using the term “Palestine” to refer to the whole region between Egypt and Phoenicia.
The term comes directly from Philistine - who were a coastal nation(Eastern Mediterranean) of people from Greece. Often warred with the local inland Israelites.
The Greeks used this name for the region being more familiar with the coastal Philistines as oppose to the inland Israelites.
Egyptian inscriptions call them “Peleset”
Egyptian direct rule ended in the 12th century BCE, when Gaza was settled by the Philistines, a seafaring people with cultural links to the Aegean, following their defeat against Ramesses III. It then became a part of the pentapolis, a league of the Philistines’ five most important city-states.
What is a Vassal State?
A vassal state is a region or country where the ruler owes allegiance to a larger or more powerful state.
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945.
Unilateral
Affecting one side only.
(of an action or decision) performed by or affecting only one person, group, or country involved in a particular situation, without the agreement of another or the others.
Military Occupation
also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is the temporary control exerted by a ruling power’s military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power’s own sovereign territory.[1][2][3][4] The controlled territory is then known as the occupied territory, with the ruling power being the occupant.[5] Occupation is distinguished from annexation and colonialism on the basis that it is a power structure that the ruling power intends to keep in place only temporarily.
What is the Hellenistic age?
4th century BC - 1st century BC
Relating to the the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 BCE.
three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E
During this period Greek culture flourished, spreading through the Mediterranean and into the Near East and Asia and centering on Alexandria in Egypt and Pergamum in Turkey.
What is Passover?
known as Pesach in Hebrew, is one of the Jewish religion’s most sacred holidays. The holiday commemorates the biblical story of the Exodus, which includes God’s plague of the firstborn “passing over” Jewish homes and the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt.
