Quarter 2 Exam 1 | River Civilizations

Question 1

INDUS RIVER VALLEY

Answer 1

-CARVED SEALS
-CITY STATES W/ PLANNING
-GRID SYSTEM
HARAPPA & MOHENJO DARO
*FALL OF EMPIRE BC OF A SYSTEM FAIL FOLLOWED BY ARYAN INVASION

Question 2

MESOPOTAMIA RIVER VALLEY

Answer 2

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: BASIC PROPERTY RIGHTS NO POLITICAL ROLE

• UNPREDICATBLE FLOOD
• CITY STATES
• ZIGGURATS
• CUNIEFORM
• GILGAMESH
• COH

*FALL OF EMPIRE BC OF CONSTANT INVASION -> PERSIAN ABORBS EMPIRE

Question 3

EGYPT RIVER VALLEY

Answer 3

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: BEST TO WOMEN; MARRIAGE, PROPERTY AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

-DELTA
-MENES (NARMER)
-MA’AT
-PHAROAH (DIVINE)
LUXURY GOODS

Question 4

CHINA (HUANG HE, YELLOW RIVER VALLEY)

Answer 4

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: WORST TO WOMEN; ONLY PURPOSE IS TO REPRODUCE, EVERYTHING FEMININE IS NEGATIVE

• MANDATE OF HEAVEN
• SEMI DIVINE KINGS
• WARRING STATES , THREE PHILOSOPHIES
• ORACLE BONES
• DYNASTIC CYCLE

Question 5

ARYANS (FORMELEY INDUS)

Answer 5

• CASTE SYSTEM
• HINUDISM
• VEDAS

Question 6

MINOAN CIVILIZATION

Answer 6

• KNOSSOS CAPITAL
• CRETE
• SEA TRADE
• BIREME (SHIP)

Question 7

MYCENAEN CVIVLIZATION

Answer 7

• GREEK MAINLAND
• SEA TRADE
• MORE WEAPONS= UNKNOWN THREAT?

Question 8

OLMEC CIVILIZATION

Answer 8

• MESOAMERICA (CENTRAL / LATIN AMERICA)
• STONEHEADS
• SQUASH,RICE,BEANS

Question 9

CHAVIN CIVILIAZATION

Answer 9

• MESOAMERICA (CENTRAL / LATIN AMERICA)
• SEAFOOD
• ANDES MOUNTAIN = TERRACING

Question 10

ATHENS

Answer 10

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: NO PUBLIC / POLITICAL ROLE

• DEMOCRACY
• PERICLES ^
• DELAIN LEAGUE
• SOLON

Question 11

SPARTA

Answer 11

WOMEN’S RIGHTS: WOMEN WERE RESPECTED, BUT HAD NO POLITICAL ROLE

• NO DEMOCRACY
• MILLITARISTIC
• PELOPONNESIAN LEAGUE

Question 12

HELLENISITC EMPIRE

Answer 12

• ALEXANDER THE GREAT
• CULTRAL DIFFUSION
• SPREAD FROM GREECE- INDIA (INDUS)
• PARTITION BC ALEX DIED LEAD TO FALL OF EMPIRE

Question 13

FALL OF ANCIENT GREECE?

Answer 13

PELOPONNESIAN WAR FOLLOWED BY THE ERA OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Question 14

CODE OF HAMMURABI

Answer 14

(BABYLONIAN) MESOPOTAMIA’S STRICT CODE OF LAWS THAT WAS BASED ON PUNISHMENT AND SHOWED BIAS SOCIAL CLASSES

Question 15

CONFUCIANISM

Answer 15

• *PHILOSPHY NOT RELIGION**
• 5 BASIC RELATIONSHIPS
• GOVT. SHOULD ACT MORALLY
• ANALECTS
• FOUNDATION FRO ALL CHINESE CULTURE
• CREATED TO STOP WARRING STATES

Question 16

DELIAN LEAGUE

Answer 16

ECONOMIC & MILITARISTIC ALLIANCE OF THE ATHENIANS

Question 17

GREEK GEOGRAPHY

Answer 17

MOUNTAINOUS TERRIAN AND PLETHORA OF ISLANDS LEADS TO CITY-STATE DEVELOPMENT

Question 18

HERODOTUS

Answer 18

GREEK WRITER AND HISTORIAN, MOST KNOWN FOR “THE HISTORIES”

SECONDARY SOURCE, SO HIS WRITING MIGHT NOT BE RELIABLE

Question 19

HITITTES

Answer 19

ORIGINATED IRON WEAPON USE

Question 20

JUDIASM

Answer 20

FISRT MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION FOUNDED BY ABRAHAM

Question 21

KNOSSOS

Answer 21

MINAON CAPTIAL

Question 22

MA’AT

Answer 22

OVERALL BALANCE, PEACE AND ORDER IN EGYPT. NO CHAOS

Question 23

MIDDLE KINGDOM IN EGYPT

Answer 23

“BORING PERIOD”

- LITERATURE AND ART

Question 24

INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Answer 24

PERIOD OF TIME IN BETWEEN KINGDOMS IN EGYPT THAT ARE TIMES OF WAR, CHAOS, AND OVERALL INSTABILITY

Question 25

MIGRATION

Answer 25

WHEN PEOPLE MOVE FORM PLACE TO PLACE (NOMADIC)

-MIRGATE FOR MANY REASONS
FOLLOW FOOD, ESCAPE NATURAL DISASTER
**BUT NOT RELIGION**

Question 26

PERICLES

Answer 26

ATHENIAN LEADER

• ENOCUAGRED DEMOCRACY
• REBULIT PARTHENOEN (NO ONE LIKED IT)
• FUNERAL ORATION
• CREATED DELIAN LEAGUE TO SPREAD DEMO.

-HE DID NOT DEFEAT SPARTA

Question 27

RIG VEDA / VEDAS

Answer 27

“VEDA” - KNOWLEDGE

ARYAN CULTURE

Question 28

TEN COMMADMENTS

Answer 28

JUDAISM, ENFORCED ETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Question 29

ZOROASTRISM

Answer 29

MONO+POLY =PERSIA RELIGION

Question 30

WHY DID GREECE FIGHT IN THE PERSIAN AND PELOPONNESIAN WAR?

Answer 30

PERISAN: KEEP ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
PELO: ECOMONIC RIVALRY WITH SPARTA

Question 31

HOW WAS ALEX THE GREAT ABLE TO CONQUER GREECE?

Answer 31

THE GREECE CITY STATES WERE WEAK BC OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

Question 32

HOW WERE ATHENS AND SPARTA DIFFERENT?

Answer 32

SIMILARITES :

• CITY STATES
• PATRIARCHAL (MEN RUN SOCIETY)
• ENTROCENTRIC

DIFFERENCES:

• EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION
• WAY GOVERNMENT RUNS
• LEVEL OF MILITARISM

Question 33

ARYAN INVASION?

Answer 33

WHY: FOR RESOURCES
HOW: KYHBER PASS
WHEN: 1500 B.C.E

Question 34

WHAT PLACES WAS ALEXANDER THE GREAT NOT ABLE TO CONQUER?

Answer 34

INDIA AND MONGOLIA (ANYTHING EAST OF INDIA)

Question 35

PHARAOHS LOSING POWER?

Answer 35

WHY: LUXURY GOOD AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE
HOW:PRIESTS TOOK OVER
WHEN: NEW KINGDOM

Question 36

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HELLENISTIC EMPIRE WHEN ALEX THE GREAT DIED?

Answer 36

A PARTITION DIVIDED THE EMPIRE INTO 3 TO SHARE WITH 3 GENERALS, WHICH LEAD TO A FALL OF THE EMPIRE.

Question 37

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

Answer 37

1. TRUTH OF SUFFERING
2. TRUTH OF CAUSE OF SUFFERING
3. TRUTH OF FREEDOM OF SUFFERING
4. “EIGHTFOLD PATH” WAY TO ELIMINATE SUFFERING

Question 38

MOKSHA

Answer 38

THE RELEASE FROM THE CYCLE OF DEATH AND REBIRTH

ACHIEVED WHEN YOU ARE FINALLY ONE WITHT THE UNIVERSE

Question 39

ZEND AVESTA

Answer 39

SCARED TEXT OF ZOROASTRIANISM

Question 40

LAO TZU

Answer 40

FOUNDER OF DAOISM