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STUPID AH RETEST Flashcards

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Ruler of Assyrian Empire at its Peak

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Assurbanipal

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“the first astronomers”

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chaldeans

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rule by god (or his representatives)

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theocracy

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Another name for land inbetween the rivers

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Fertile Crescent

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another man like “Noah” found in the epic of GILGAMESH

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Utnapishtun

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first great lawgiver

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hammurabi

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first man to unite all of mesopotamia under one empire

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Sargon I

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Step / terraced pyramid with god’s residence at top

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ziggurat

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first ancestor of all the tribes of israel who came from ur

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Abraham

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The last great sumerian city

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Ur

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1.

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Ubadians

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2.

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Sumerians

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3.

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Akkadians

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4.

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Babylonians

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5.

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Assyrians

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6.

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Chaldeans

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Aside from BAbylonians & Sumerians (they had mixed semitic associations) which groups were semitic

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Assyrians & Akkadians (2 A’s)

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Neo-Bablylonians

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Chaldeans

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It has been said that mesopotamia has been built on

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clay

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mesopotamia (which means land _______ the rivers in Greek) lies between these two rivers ______ & _________

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Inbetween, Tigris, Euphrates

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The _____ people developed the writing system which is called _______, and later Mesopotamian peoples adapted it for use with their own different languages

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Sumerian, cuneiform

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The name for their writing system comes from “cuneus,” a word that means _______ in the _____ language

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wedge, latin

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the ________ people, led by Sargon I, developed an empire near present day Baghdad

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Akkadian

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The main god of the babylonians was Marduk, their god of _______

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Justice

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On the stele that proclaimed their famous law code, who is shown handing the laws to the king?

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Shamash

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Although the idea of an eye for an eye sounds harsj to us, it was deisigned to prevent the chaos by replacing cycles of blood vengeance with a sever but measured brand of ________

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justice

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what 2 great mesopotamian civilizations both used babylon as their capital

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babylonians and chaldeans

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which mesopotamian civilization, had their first capital at assur

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assyrians

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which mesopotamian civilization was not only known for their merciless military power, but also for their effective way of ruling a large empire with regional governors, a network of roads, a postal system, and forced movements of peoples to reduce resistance

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addyrians

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The “Samaritans” were descendants of colonists who were forced bu the _____s to relocate in Samaria (To supress rebellions elsewhere in their empire), and who later intermarried with the local jewish population,

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assyrian(s)

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the lost tribed of ______ were also victims of the same forced colonization policy

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israel

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the second assyrian capital was the city of Nineveh, where a great royal library was later built by king _________

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assurbanipal

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which asyrian king destroyed babylon? _______ which one rebuilt it

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Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar II

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The “Neo babylonians” needed the help of outsiders (Medes and _________)to defeat the assyrians

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Persian

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Nebuchadnezzar built one of the wonders of the ancient world for his wife. Which one wonder was it

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the hanging gardens of babylon

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what civilization did nebuchadnezzar rule

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chaldeans

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the babylonian captivity was a period of more than 70 years when thousands oh the _______ people were held captive in babylon after resisting the power of the chaldeans

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hebrew

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the persian ruler ____managed to get help from the priests of Marduk to overthrow the neo babylonians and is praised in the bible for letting the captive jews return home

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Cyrus

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Our seven day week was first established by the chaldeans because they would worship different gids every day, represented by the ___, ____ and the five ____ closest to earth.

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sun, moon, planets

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AFter the assyrians forced jews from samaria into another part of their empire they came to be reffered as the ________ _________ of israel

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lost tribes

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give the exact year that the chaldeans, persians & medes overthrew the assyrians

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612 bc

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the most famous work of sumerian lit. is the epic of

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gilgamesh

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