MIDTERM TWO!!!! - PLACES Flashcards
Qin
Chinese dynasty in 200s BCE. Lasted 15 years.
Unified Chinese kingdoms, built the Great Wall and its emperor was the legalistic Shi Huangdi.
Narmer
also known as Menes, responsible for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt
Hierakonopolis
Along with Abydos, one of the two centers of Egypt during the late Predynastic and the First Dynasty
Egypt
Ur
- Found at Sumerian Royal Cemetery of Ur -Dates to ca. 2,500 BCE
- Farmers producing food, and consumed by the elite.
- Example of M. Mann’s economic power
- Iraq
Giza
An ancient Egyptian city; the site of the Great Pyramid
-Egypt
Harappa
Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C.E.
It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation, and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials.
-Pakistan
Sardis
Turkey
Mycenae
Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer’s epic poems _____ was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.
Contemporary archaeologists call the complex Greek society of the second millennium B.C.E. “Mycenaean.”
-Greece
Anyang
Ancient city in northern China built during the Shang dynasty, it was China’s first capital.
China
Knossos
Minoan, Greece, Crete
Rapa Nui
Easter Island, Chile
Nineveh
Capital of the Assyrian Empire, Iraq
Angkor
World’s Largest religious building, it was built in the Khmer Empire and dedicated to the Hindu God, Vishnu. It is Sanskrit for “Holy city” and is the modern name for a large complex of monuments, temples, reservoirs, and walls that was the political and ceremonial center of Khmer civilization. (Cambodia)
Mohenjo-Daro
Largest city of the Indus Valely civilization. It was centrally located in the extensive floodplain of Indus River
-Pakistan
