Mid Term EXAM - 2022 Flashcards
What is the term for the study of society’s interaction with the past?
History
What is the term for “land between the rivers” in Greek?
Mesopotamia
What is the term for the systems that use canals and dams to bring water from rivers to the fields?
irrigation
What is the term for the belief in only one god?
Monotheism
What is the term for “great house?’
Pharaoh
What is the term for a tablet that enabled the French to decipher hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
What is the term for the nomads who used chariots to conquer Egypt around 1660 BC?
Hyksos
What is the term for a wind pattern that brings heavy rainfall to India during the summer?
Monsoons
What is the term for a pass that provides access to India through the Hindu Kush Mountains?
Khyber
What is the term for a title which means “Enlightened One?”
Buddha
What is the term for an escape from self, suffering and reincarnation in Buddhism?
Nirvana
What is the term for the Greek city and the surrounding countryside?
Polis
What is the term for slaves who are owned by Spartan citizens?
Helots
What is the term for a Roman army unit with approximately 5000 men?
Legion
What is the term for a victory parade held in honor of a victorious Roman commander?
Triumph
Who was defeated by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus?
Pompey
Where were the first races of human activity found?
Great Rift Valley
What did the Assyrians use to increase their power and territory?
Iron weapons
Battering rams
Fear
Which innovation developed in Sumer?
The wheel
Which of the following was the largest settlement during the Neolithic Revolution?
Catalhuyuk
Which development defined the Neolithic Revolution?
Agriculture
The term prehistorical refer to what time period?
Before the development of writing
What city served as the final Assyrian capital and home to a great library?
Nineveh
Who ruled as the first female pharaoh in Egyptian history?
Hatshepsut
What was the most important responsibility of an Egyptian pharaoh?
Preserve maat
Who united the northern and southern Egyptian kingdom’s around 3100 BC?
Menes
What civilization was the first to develop an alphabet?
Phoenicia
Who built the first temple in Jerusalem to honor Yahweh?
Solomon
What occurred after the collapse of the New Kingdom?
Assyrians conquered Egypt
Kingdom of Israel emerged in Canaan
Phoenician city states flourished in the Levant
Why di the Harappan civilization decline around 1700 BC?
Indus River gradually changed its course
What river served as the center of the Harappan civilization?
Indus River
What pharaoh brought the Egyptian Empire to its largest size ever?
Thutmose III
Who led the Egyptian army during the Battle of Kadesh?
Ramses II
Where did the Hittites form a powerful kingdom?
Anatolia
Who became known as the Buddha by meditating under a tree to find enlightenment?
Siddhartha Gautama
What group was excluded from the caste system?
Pariahs
What empire united the small kingdoms in northern India for the first time?
Mauryan Empire
What group enjoyed the highest level of respect in the caste system?
Brahmins
What is Hinduism’s one true being which is manifested in many gods and living things?
Brahman
What were religious myths written in Sanskrit by the Aryans?
Vedas
Where did the Romans finally defeat Hannibal?
Zama
What city was destroyed during the Third Punic War?
Carthage
What island did Romans and Carthaginians want to control during the First Punic War?
Sicily
What region rebelled against Persian rule in 499 BC?
Ionia
Who created the council of Five Hundred in Athens?
Cleisthenes
Who established the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes around 550 BC?
Cyrus the Great
Who was assassinated by a group of senators after her was declared dictator for life?
Julius Caesar
Are primary sources first hand accounts?
YES
Does AD stand for After Death?
NO
Is disease a risk associated with agriculture?
YES
Was King David the first king to unite the Hebrews against the Philistines?
NO
Did Hatshepsut fight many wars to expand the Egyptian Empire?
NO
Did the Hittites speak a Semitic language?
NO
Are clay trade seals the only remnants of Harappan writing?
YES
Are the Upanishads the written interpretations of the Vedas?
YES
Did Chandragupta become the first Indian emperor by conquering rival kingdoms?
YES
Did Asoka turn away from warfare when he converted to Buddhism?
YES
Did the Olympic Games allow MALE athletes to demonstrate military skills?
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Is a patriarchal society controlled by women?
NO
Were strong women valued in Sparta?
YES
Did the Persians build roads to transport messages, taxes and soldiers?
YES
Did Themistocles defeat the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis?
YES
Did Pericles lead Sparta during the Peloponnesian War?
NO
Did Athens win the Peloponnesian War?
NO
Did Alexander the Great conquer Greece at the Battle of Plataea?
NO
Did the Greek Empire collapse after Alexander the Great was assassinated?
NO
Were dishonored Roman Legions punished with decimation?
YES
Did Xerxes march an army through the Alps to invade Roman Territory?
NO
Did the Romans behead 6,000 slaves after Spartacus was defeated?
NO
Did Julius Caesar become a victorious military commander in Gaul?
YES
Who was the Gladiator who escaped and led a slave revolt?
Spartacus
What was the Athenian victory over the Persians that was led by Darius?
Marathon
What was Alexander’s greatest victory?
Gaugumela
What were Sun Tzu’s military treatise’s that are still studied today?
Art of War
Who were the mysterious raiders who were defeated by Ramses III?
Sea People
What is the name of the famous last stand that ended in defeat for the Greeks?
Thermopylae
What was a victory for Hannibal and a military disaster for Rome?
Cannae
What was a stalemate between Ramses II and the Hittites?
Kadesh
What is the rebirth of a soul in a new form?
Reincarnation
Who was the Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens?
Nebuchadnezzar
