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Test 1 Flashcards

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Lugal

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“King”- these were families that dominated certain regions in Sumer.

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Summations

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Southern Mesopotamia, oldest civilization, technology breakthroughs, contained UR, one of the oldest and most important city-states

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Akkad

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North of Sumer, came from Arabian peninsula, adopted a lot of Sumerian culture

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Sargon the Great

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Akkadian king who conquered Sumer and built the first known empire from the Persian gulf almost to he Mediterranean (preserved Sumerian culture)

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Assyria

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Huge, militaristic culture, biggest army of the time, not good people, wanted to make an impression on their subjects (mutilation)

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Ammorites

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Came out of the Arabian desert, warrior tradition, had the horse and chariot

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Hammurabi

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King of the region (dominated by Amorites), best known for his code, which was the first set of written law, based on retaliation.

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Kassites

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Conquered Mesopotamia, their invasion began the dark ages, they didn’t come to preserve culture, they just came to destroy.

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Hittites

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Modern central turkey, able to smelt medals, confiscate a lot of Mesopotamian things (after mes. Has recovered from dark ages)

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Behistun rock

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Where information was recorded from their time…

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Babylon

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Largest, most important and beautiful city of the ancient world. It’s start goes back to Sargon, most important king was Nebuchadnezzar

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Sumerian achievements

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The wheel
The calendar
Cuneiform
Math-multiplication, circle = 360, the minute, square roots
Domesticated animals, crop rotation, the plow- all these allowed them to stay put
Irrigation systems
Commerce
Theology- polytheistic religion (first)
Literature- Gilgamesh
Legal code- based on retaliation
Women's rights
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Assyrian kings in order

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Shalmanezar III
Tiglith-Pilesar III
Sargon II
Sennecherib
Esar-Hadon
Ashurbanipal
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Shalmanzar III

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Defeated smaller kingdoms at the battle of quarquar, one of the first great successful Assyrian commanders, conquered mes. And turkey, died at the border of Israel

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Tiglith-Pilesar III

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Created the first modern army that was ahead in everything, reconquered most of Shalmanzar’s empire from 75 yrs earlier.

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Sargon II

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Conquered Sumaria and northern parts of Israel, dies early

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Sennecherib

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Height of Assyrian power, known for building Nineveh, tried to take Jerusalem, assassinated by sons

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Esar-Hadon

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Known for conquering invading Egypt, their long enemy

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Ashurbanipal

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Known for interest in literature, had over 60,000 texts, most of what we know comes from him and his extensive records, he was a strong and capable ruler

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Scythians

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Part of the downfall of Assyria, they don’t invade, but they move in in mass migrations and the land can’t produce enough good for everyone. Sumerians will fight them and win, but it bleeds them dry

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Downfall of Assyria

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1) poor leadership
2) scythians
3) outbreak of disease in Nineveh, whiles out 20-30 percent of population
4) no one wants to help them because they are bad people

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Military genius, king of Babylon, mean dude, legend says he built the hanging gardens of Babylon, known as a builder, but also reconquered everything that Assyria had once controlled

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Nabonidas

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After Nebuchadnezzar, son in law, becomes king, hates babylon and it’s people, doesn’t love them, left government to incompetent people, then invaded and conquered by Persians

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Cyrus the great

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Founder of the Persian empire, conquered Babylonian empire, united Iranians, largest land empire in history, open and accepting of diversity, didn’t want rebellion

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Darius the great

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Administration genius, developed beauracracy that worked for them, stimulated trade, known for jealousy and beginning Greek wars

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Zorastorism

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Persian religion, focused on the eternal destiny of the universe, twin brothers represented good and evil (ahura Mazda and Ahriman), mans actions could help either side

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Arameans

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West of Mesopotamia, built Damascus, major contribution to history was their common language of Aramaic that comman man spoke

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Phoenicians

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Very wealthy, shipbuilding, commerce, natural dye, glass, cedar of Lebanon, gave us our modern alphabet

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Solomon

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Important Hebrew king, copper on his highway, charged tolls for travel on the roads that went through their region, massive literature and religious contributions. (Christianity begins to sweep throughout area)

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Hurrians

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North of Mesopotamia, eastern turkey, kind of overlooked because of other larger cities

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Egyptian culture

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Stable society, isolated because of uninhabitable surrounding regions, preoccupied with death,

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Rosetta Stone

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Helped us unlock hieroglyphics, guy translated them by languages he knew that were side by side of this writing

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Menes

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First pharaoh, scorpion king, united 2 regions and Egypt behins

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Zoser

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First to build pyramids

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Cheops (Khufu)

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Commissioned the building of the great pyramid

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Hatshepsut

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First woman pharaoh, prosperous reign, tension between her and son,

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Thutmose III

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Takes over after hat. Tries to obliterate Hatshepsut and her memory, conquered a lot of surrounding regions,

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Ramases III

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Most of reign spent fighting the deal peoples who have had a population explosion, stopped a huge outside invasion, but used a lot of money doing so, last great pharaoh

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Ramases II

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Recreates Egyptian empire, thutmose’s competition for best pharaoh.

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Hyksos

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Invade and conquer Egypt for about 150 yrs, Egyptians are embarrassed and try and write them out of their history

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Dravidians

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Indus River valley, with Mojenjo Dari and Harappa, cultural developments

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Arayans

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Came from the black and Caspian seas, mass numbers, conquer, push Dravidians into southern india, introduce hinduism,

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Caste system

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Social system of stratification in India, hard to move from class to class,

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Reincarnation

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If you were a good person you could get into a higher class in the next life by doing good works

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Maurayan dynasty

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Founder- chadragupta I (conquered Hindustan and northern India)
Trade routes started, bribes to get people to join his army

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