World History: 1st Nine Weeks Flashcards by Lauren Lightfoot | Brainscape

Q

What are 7 things that civilizations have in common?

A

Mastery over food supply
Specialized division of labor
Written language
Written law code
Civil government
Arts and sciences
Formal education

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What are the 4 earliest civilizations and what rivers are they on?

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Indus River valley- Indus River
China- Hwang ho and Yangtze
Egypt-Nile
Mesopotamia-Tigris and Euphrates

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What does Mesopotamia mean?

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“Land between rivers”

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What’s Sumerians writing

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Cuneiform

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Definition of ziggurats

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Sumerian temples

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Is one of our oldest literatures

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Believes in many gods

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Polytheism

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1st Great Mesopotamian empire and leader

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Akkadian

Sargon

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2nd great Mesopotamian empire and leader

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3rd dynasty of Ur

Ur-Nammu

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Finds the 1st law code

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Ur-Nammu

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3rd great Mesopotamian empire and leader

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Old Babylonian empire

Hammurabi

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Finds the 1st comprehensive law code

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Hammurabi

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4th great Mesopotamian empire and founder

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Hittite

Labarna I

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Put an end to the Egyptian empire and the Hittite empire

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Sea people’s

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The 5th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

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Assyrian

Tiglath-pileser

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Last king of Assyria and built the library at Nineveh

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Ashurbanipal

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Was responsible for the Babylonian captivity

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Nebuchadnezzar

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6th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

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New Babylonian empire

Naboplaser

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Another name for new Babylonian empire

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Chaldean

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Built a great temple for his wife

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Nebuchadnezzar

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7th Great Mesopotamian empire and founder

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Persian

Cyrus the Great

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Another name for Persia

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Iran

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Next Persian king who builds the royal road

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Darius

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States

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Saptraps

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Used as a trading post

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Royal road

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Persian’s religion

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Zoroastrianism

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Added Persia to his empire in 330 B.C

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Alexander the Great

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Longest river in the world

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Nile

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1st person to unite Egypt

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Menes

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Capital in the old kingdom

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Memphis

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The god in the old kingdom

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Ra

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What are pharaohs?

A

Kings or gods

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Where were the Great pyramid

A

Giza

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Largest tomb

A

Khufu, Cheops

Q

Body of a lion, head of a human

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The Great Sphinx

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How they preserved the dead

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Mummification

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Book of prayers and enchantments

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Book of the dead

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Egyptian writing

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Hieroglyphics

Q

Translated the Rosetta Stone

A

Champollion

Q

The capital in the Middle Kingdom

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Thebes

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False god in the Middle Kingdom

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Amon-ra

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Took over Egypt

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Hyksos

Q

Who drove out Hyksos

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Ahmose I

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Only female pharaoh

A

Hatshepsut

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Ruled during fight with Hittites

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Ramses II

Q

Makes new god

A

Amenhotep IV

Q

What’s the false god that amenhotep makes

A

Aton

Q

Amenhotep’s wife

A

Nefertiti

Q

Where they buried the tombs

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Valley of the kings

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Only complete tomb we have

A

Tutankhamon

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Ended the Egyptian empire

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Sea people’s

Q

Seized Egypt and took the title of pharaoh

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Ptolemy

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Last ruler, queen of Egypt, ancestor of Ptolemy

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Cleopatra

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A major religious and cultural tradition

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Hinduism

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Division of social classes in India

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Caste system

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First Buddha “Middle way”

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Siddhartha Gautama

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Gained India’s independence

A

Gandhi

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Taught to respect religion

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Confucius

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1st to unite China; Great Wall of China

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Shih Huang (emperor chin)

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Largest empire in China

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Genghis khan

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Led revolt; last emperor

A

Sun Yat-sen

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Shek v. Mao

A

Chiang Kai shek

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Made China communist

A

Mao Tse-Tung