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Test 1 Flashcards

0
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Who built the Parthenon?

A

Phidias

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What was the Hammurabi law code?

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Rich people got a break from the law or a less severe punishment

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What is the Torah?

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The first 5 books of the bible

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What is ostracism?

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Exclusion from society

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What did the apostle Paul do?

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He spread Christianity and wrote most of the New Testament

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Nebuchadnezuar-

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Babylonian leader also mentioned in The Bible

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Satrapy-

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Title of government in the Persian empire

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Hittites

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Best known for their use with iron, the first ones

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How did the Egyptians view pharaoh?

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As a god, one of many

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Which civilization provides us with the conception of monotheism?

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The Hebrews

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How did Egypts environment favor Egypt?

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  • the Nile only flooded once a year so you could predict it
  • surrounded by dessert do it protected them from enemies
  • climate was favorable
  • access to Mediterranean
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What was the purpose of the Delian league?

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Athens joined as a defense system against the Persians

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What began the greek civil war?

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Sparta creating the pelapanesian league

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Who was the warrior poet of Israel?

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David

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Poet and builder of the temple

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Solomon

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1st king of Israel

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Saul

16
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Compare and contrast Sparta and Athens.

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Both have an assembly, both are popular and powerful city states and they both had alliances

Spartans had mandatory military service about 8000 free and the rest were slaves dependent on agriculture, culture was laid back oligarch( rules by a few ) two kings, five overseers, counsel, assembly. Women were more independent. Slaves were constantly rebelling

Athens not as military based, military service was optional, more than 100,000 slaves dependent on agriculture and trade, democracy, free men; all male citizens aristocrats at top, farmers in middle, rank and thetes (urban craftsman)
Delian league, girls received a little formal education, in the Delian league and strong navy

17
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Who predicted the first eclipse.

A

Thales

18
Q

How do you describe cuneiform?

A

Wedge shaped writing on clay tablets

19
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Babylonian empire

A

Hammurabi- chief judge

People were idolaters, had Jewish slaves

Hammurabi law code

20
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Egypt

A

Thutmose III, king Tutankhamen, Ramses II

Polytheistic, viewed pharaoh as god, trinity of gods, believed in afterlife, built pyramids, mummified dead, used papyrus for paper

Contributed geometry (I think)

21
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Hittites

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Had lions on gates for defense, fought with chariots

Contributed iron

22
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Phoenicians

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Carthage was mightiest colony

Contributed alphabet

23
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Assyrians

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Nubuchadnezuar II

a military power, created hanging gardens

24
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Hebrews

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Saul, David, Solomon

Monotheistic, held captive in Egypt, kingdoms of Israel and Judah

25
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Persian

A

Cyrus the great, xerses, Darius the great

Satraps, royal road, built canal in Egypt

Tax collecting system and royal road system

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Greece

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Alexander the Great, Phillip II

polytheistic, Persian wars, Thermopylae- 300 Spartans lost bravely, Socrates, Aristotle Plato, cleistens- created first democracy, helots (slaves)

Socratic method, hippocratic method, democracy, 2nd actor in plays, greek ideal, pully, geometry, heliocentric theory

27
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Who used cuneiform?

A

Mesopotamians

28
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What did Egyptians use to make paper?

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Papyrus

29
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What is the importance of mount Olympus to the greeks?

A

Home of the gods

30
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What did Socrates say was the central concern of an individual.

A

The concern of moral charachter

31
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Who was the great greek poet that we still study today?

A

Homer

32
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What are the characteristics of a Greek hero?

A

Strong moral character, not afraid of death, challenged the gods, not pawns of the gods always got the girl, greeks were challenged by the gods

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