Western Civilization Flashcards
Civilization is the term used to describe a society differentiated by levels of ___________ and________________ and in military, religious, economic, and political control are based in cities.
Wealth, Power
The paleolithic age, witnessed the development of cave _________?
Cave paintings
The diviion of labor between __________ and _________ and discovery of _________.
Men, Women, Fire
The neolithic Revolution was the move from hunting and gathering toward the systematic growing of what__________?
Food/ Crops
One of th ancient civilization in ______________ began in an Re known as Sumer around 3000 B.C.
Mesopotamia
Sargon the Great was the founder of the _________________ empire and esatblished the first empire in Mesopotamia.
Akkadian
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a great literary epic of the ancient________.
Sumerians
What was Mesopotamian known as Cuneiform?
Eye for an eye
What was Hammurabi most famous for ____________________ kings of Babylonian Empire who developed a significant set of laws.
Retaliation
What was the most important river to help develope the Egyptian civilization?
Nile
Ancient ___________ history was dicived into three major periods. The New Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, and The Old Kingdom
Egyptian
The egyptians were polytheistic during what kingdom- their cheif god was calld Re-the sub god of?
Old Kingdom
Osiris was an Egyptian god associated with what?
Mumification
In the New Kingdom of Egyptians history rulers took on the title of what?
Pharaoh
Hieroglyphics was the primary writing system in ___________ it included symobols and represented sounds and objects.
Ancient Egyptain
Egyptian number system what based of what number?
10
The Greek, Latin, Persian and other languages belonged t what group?
European
Minoan Civilization was located on what island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Crete
Linear was a primary script used to place religious writing if ________ Civilization?
Minoan
What language group did Myceneaans belong to?
German
The virtue of being a skilled warrior was considered most important to what?
Trojan War
The earliest written for of __________ used by the Mycenaeans was known ad Linear B.
Greek
In religious tradition Abraham is considered the patriarch of what people?
Penataleuch
King David is credited with the founder of ___________ and is consideded th greatest King of Isreal
Jerusalem
What occuued at hands of the Hewbrews Chaldeans?
Babylonian Captivity
________________ Religious Tradition contained three important aspects- The Covenant, The Law, and Prophets.
Jewish
What simplified alphabet and writting system was contributed near ancient East?
Pheonicains alphabet
Assyrians were warlike conquerors?
Mesopatamia
The _________ millitary used terror tactics, had a well trained and diciplined army the used iron weapons, used horse drawn war chariots.
Assyriam
The Hanging Garden of Babylon was on the the architectural achievments during what reign?
Nebuchadnezzar II
In the Greek Archaic age the Greek adopted _________ form the Phoenicians?
Alphabet
The Iliad was work of ___________ to tell a story of the Trojan War, with the wrath of a Greek hero named Achilles
Homer
The ________ was a Greek millitary formation where soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in ranks ofter eight men deep.
Phalanx
The Greek ______ was an independent slef-governing city state.
Polis
Democracy involves rule by ___________________ and is not determined by birth or wealth.
Political Reforms
Cleithenes began a major reform that would create Athenians what?
Democracy
The __________ faced problems caused by family sold into slavey , as of result they turned power over to solon to save Athens.
Areopagus
Cyrus was the Great founder of _________?
Persian Empire
_____________ led Athenians to their allies to victory at the Battlw of Marathon.
Miltiades
Xerxes was the Persian ruler who led ___________ Invasion of Greece, with the force og 150,000 to 200,000 men.
Persians
Greek unity was destroyed as a result of the ___________ War?
Peloponnesian War
The Battle of Thermopylae was a heroic delaying action led by Kind Leonidas and his 300 ___________ to buy time for Athens to prepare for the Persian invasion.
Spartans
Herodotus wrote the “ Persian War” known of “ the Father of ___________?
History
Spartans’ famous Greek philosopher who was forced commit suicide by drinking hemlock for corrupting the youth of___________?
Athens
Hellenistic is the word used to describe the civilization based on _______________?
Greece
Philip II defeating an alliance of Thebans the Athenians at the Battle of _____________?
Chaeronea
Alexander the Great largest empire the world had ever known diffused_________?
Greek
The Battle of Granicus River, The Battle of Issus, and Gaugamela was most famous of who?
Alexander
The epic poem of The Argonautica was.
Apollonius Rhodes
Doctrine of Pleasure Founded by Epicurus
Epicurus
________ founded Zeno?
Stoicism
Groundbreaking astronomical theory of the Heliocentric view of the universe?
Aristarchus
_______ is best known for determining the circumference of the Earth?
Eratosthenes
_______ was most famous contribution of Elements, textbook on geometry
Euclid
