Mid Term Review

Question 1

Why has climate changed?

Answer 1

Unknown

Question 2

Mesopotamian’s felt man was in gods image or god was in mans image?

Answer 2

They felt that god was conceived in mans image.

Question 3

What number did the Mesopotamian’s use as a base?

Answer 3

60

Question 4

What was Mesopotamian religion like?

Answer 4

Dark and pessimistic

Question 5

What people ruled the kingdom rose around Babylon after 2000 BC?

Answer 5

Amorites

Question 6

Who was the greatest Babylon king?

Answer 6

Hammurabi

Question 7

When did Hammurabi rule?

Answer 7

1792-1750 BC

Question 8

What is the oldest law code?

Answer 8

Hammurabi’s

Question 9

What was the Egyptian writing system called?

Answer 9

Hieroglyphics

Question 10

When were the pyramids built?

Answer 10

2700-2500 BC; during the Old Kingdom

Question 11

What does the concept of Ma’at say?

Answer 11

a kind of cosmic harmony existed and there was a proper relationship for all things within that harmony

Question 12

When was the Egyptian New Kingdom formed?

Answer 12

After the Egyptians expelled the Hyksos

Question 13

Who was the battle of Qadesh between and when was it?

Answer 13

Egyptians and Hittites; 13th century BC

Question 14

What is is it called when you believe there are many gods but choose to worship one?

Answer 14

Henotheism

Question 15

What religions are the earliest examples of henotheism?

Answer 15

Akhenaten & Atenism

Question 16

Why was the Old Testament written?

Answer 16

To trace the development of a covenant between God and the Hebrews

Question 17

Who was Cryrus the Great?

Answer 17

He was a Persian emperor in mid 6th century BC

Question 18

What did Cyrus the Great do?

Answer 18

He unified the Persians and conquered the Neo-Babylonians

Question 19

What was the first indisputably monotheistic religion?

Answer 19

The religion of the Hebrews

Question 20

Who was part of the book of Psalms written by?

Answer 20

King David

Question 21

What does Moses’ Law emphasize?

Answer 21

Moral purity and holiness

Question 22

When did the Hebrews become known as the Jews?

Answer 22

During the Babylon captivity

Question 23

Who defeated the Hebrew Kingdom of Judah?

Answer 23

Neo-Babylonians

Question 24

When was Judah defeated?

Answer 24

Between 598 & 586 BC

Question 25

What are the Assyrians famous for?

Answer 25

Using deliberate cruelty, including impalement, flaying, and mass deportation

Question 26

Why did the Assyrians use deliberate cruelty?

Answer 26

To assemble their empire

Question 27

What people are linked the legend of Atlantis?

Answer 27

Minoan civilization

Question 28

What legend also comes from Minoan civilization?

Answer 28

The Minotaur

Question 29

Where did Mycenaean's build their cities?

Answer 29

Hilltops

Question 30

When was Mycenaean Greece destroyed; by who?

Answer 30

1200 BC, possibly by Dorians

Question 31

When was the Greek Dark Age?

Answer 31

Approximately 1200-800 BC

Question 32

What is the word for city state?

Answer 32

Polis

Question 33

What influenced the development of the Greek polis?

Answer 33

Geography

Question 34

When did the Polis emerge?

Answer 34

800 BC

Question 35

What war was homers epics based on?

Answer 35

The Trojan War

Question 36

What books did Homer write?

Answer 36

The Iliad and Odyssey

Question 37

Who provided the basis for most Greek Culture?

Answer 37

Homer

Question 38

Spartan culture was based on?

Answer 38

Military state

Question 39

Who are the founders of the discipline of history?

Answer 39

Herodotus and Thucydides

Question 40

Who were two of the most important figures of Athenian democracy?

Answer 40

Cleisthenes and Pericles

Question 41

Who were the Olympic games in honor of?

Answer 41

Zeus

Question 42

What do Draco, Solon, Peisistratus, and Cleisthenes have in common?

Answer 42

Their activity in politics and law

Question 43

Why did the Persian King Darius decide to invade Greece in 490 BC?

Answer 43

Athens had aided the Greek cities in Asia MMinor in a revolt against Persian rule

Question 44

What battle was fought in 490 BC?

Answer 44

The Battle of Thermoylae

Question 45

What was age saw a flowering of democracy an artistic and literary genius?

Answer 45

The age of Pericles; a Golden Age

Question 46

What did Leonidas' self-sacrifice at Thermopylae do?

Answer 46

Set a moral example for the rest of the Greeks and probably saved Western civilization

Question 47

What did the Greeks victory in the Persian Wars mean?

Answer 47

It ensured that the Greek states could remain free

Question 48

What was in the Greeks diet?

Answer 48

Wine, olives, and bread

Question 49

What were Greeks heavy infantrymen called?

Answer 49

Hoplites

Question 50

What is a Greek military formation?

Answer 50

A phalanx

Question 51

What was ancient religion primarily about?

Answer 51

Pleasing the gods and keeping them from harming people

Question 52

What was the Greek alphabet and the modern alphabet derived from?

Answer 52

The alphabet used by the Phoenicians

Question 53

What is a "satrap"?

Answer 53

A Persian provincial govenor

Question 54

What is zorastrianism?

Answer 54

A form of ethical dualism

Question 55

What three woman were important in the Hebrew Bible?

Answer 55

Deborah, Esther, Ruth

Question 56

What was the writing system used by the Minoans?

Answer 56

Linear B

Question 57

What is the government run by the best?

Answer 57

Aristocracy

Question 58

Who united the Persians and when?

Answer 58

Cyrus II; 6th c. BC

Question 59

When was the Little Ice Age?

Answer 59

AD 1550-1850

Question 60

Why were the Ionians important?

Answer 60

They invented rational philosophy

Question 61

Who were the first three Hebrew Patriarchs?

Answer 61

Abraham, Issac, and Jacob

Question 62

What is the government by the few (rich)?

Answer 62

Oligarchy

Question 63

When were the first Olympic games held?

Answer 63

776 BC

Question 64

When was the Peloponnesian War fought?

Answer 64

Between 431 and 404 BC

Question 65

What was the principle city of Mycenaean Civilization?

Answer 65

Mycenae

Question 66

What was Thera?

Answer 66

A volcanic island in the Aegean that exploded in the 17th c. BC and caused massive damage and loss of life