Lectures 1 - 4

Question 1

Date Israel was conquered by the Assyrians

Answer 1

ca. 722 b.c.e

Question 2

Moses

Answer 2

Hebrew leader, fl. 12th-century b.c.e

Question 3

Phoenicians

Answer 3

(1500-300 b.c.e)

A Semitic-speaking Canaanite people who inhabited roughly what is now Lebanon and who plated trading colonies in the western Mediterranean.

Question 4

The word civilization is derived from . . .

Answer 4

Latin, Civ

Question 5

Neolithic Developments

Answer 5

• Agriculture and the domestication of animals
• Irrigation
• Specialization of Labor
• Political differentiation
• Arts and Crafts
• Writing

Question 6

Date Judah was conquered by the Neo-Babylonians

Answer 6

ca. 586 b.c.e

Question 7

Badarian Period

Answer 7

Egyptian

5000-4000 b.c.e

Small communities up and down the Nile

• Drain marshes
• Irrigate
• Plant regular crops, mainly cereal grains

Question 8

Sargon

Answer 8

(fl. 23rd-century b.c.e.): Ruled over the Akkadians. Built first known imperial state.
- has a story similar to Moses, found floating in a river as a baby and was taken in by the king’s family.

Question 9

Philistines

Answer 9

(12th-century b.c.e)

Sea peoples, raided and invaded all along the eastern and southern coast of the Mediterranean; left no durable impact, made no long-term contributions

Question 10

Enkheduana

Answer 10

Daughter of Sargon, First Known Woman Poet (23rd century b.c.e)

Question 11

Menes (Narmer) contribution

Answer 11

Unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, ca. 3100 b.c.e

Question 12

The Torah (Books of Moses)

Answer 12

First five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy – “the teaching” (generally ascribed to Moses)

Question 13

Egyptian: Ma’at

Answer 13

Truth, justice, balance, order, harmony

Question 14

Egyptian: Ka

Answer 14

Soul

Question 15

Nomarch

Answer 15

Ruler of a nome

Question 16

The Uruk Period

Answer 16

Mesopotamia

• 4000-3200 (4th millennium) b.c.e.
• The development of metal casting
• Cuneiform writing
• Cities (small independent city-states)

Question 17

Neolithic Revolution

Answer 17

approx: (11,000 b.c.e. - 5,000 b.c.e.)

A set of processes that began about 10,000 years ago leading to the rise of agriculture and the domestication of animals.

Question 18

Hyksos

Answer 18

Semitic-speaking peoples from Palestine (Western Asia) who settled in the eastern Nile Delta, some time before 1650 BC. The arrival of the Hyksos led to the end of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt and initiated the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt.

Question 19

Hittites

Answer 19

Indo-European–speaking and institutionally precocious people who rose in Anatolia in the third millennium B.C., expanded south into Syria and Palestine, and fought debilitating wars with the Egyptians after about 1400 B.C.

Question 20

henotheism

Answer 20

Belief by some group or people in one god without denying the existence of other gods. (Sometimes called monolatry.)

Question 21

cuneiform

Answer 21

Literally “wedge shaped”; customary name for the writing used in Mesopotamia.

Question 22

ziggurat

Answer 22

Temples built in Mesopotamia of mud brick and timber and having the form of a trapezoid.

Question 23

theocratic kingship

Answer 23

Form of royal rule that emerged in Mesopotamia, then appeared in many Western societies. Kings claimed to be the representatives of the gods and to rule by the favor of the gods.

Question 24

Abraham

Answer 24

fl. 2000-1550 b.c.e

Hebrew patriarch who, in the early second millennium B.C., moved from Ur to Palestine.

Question 25

Hammurabi

Answer 25

(r. 1792–1750)

Ruler over the Old Babylonians (or Amorites). Issued a famous and influential law code.

Question 26

lugals

Answer 26

mesopotamian kings - “local strongmen”

Question 27

syncretistic

Answer 27

The amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.

Question 28

animism

Answer 28

a habit of mind that sees nothing as wholly lifeless.

Question 29

nomes

Answer 29

law district; law territory. In Egypt

Question 30

List the main Egyptian historical periods

Answer 30

• Predynastic Period
• Old Kingdom
• First Intermediate Period
• Middle Kingdom
• Second Intermediate Period
• New Kingdom

Question 31

Battle at Qadesh

Answer 31

ca. 1274 in northern Syria, Egyptians and Hittites fought a battle that left them both crippled and declining.