World History Semester 1 Final Flashcards
What year was the Trojan War?
Between 3000 and 1000 BC
Who fought in the Trojan War?
Troy and Greece
Who won the Trojan War
The Greeks
What was the Trojan war fought over?
The Trojan king, Paris, kidnapped a Greek Kings wife.
What was won in the Trojan war?
The kidnapped wife
When was the Peloponnesian war fought?
431 bc
Who fought in the Peloponnesian war?
Athens and Sparta?
Who won the Peloponnesian war?
Sparta
What was fought over in the Peloponnesian war?
Athenian control over the Delian League.
What was won in the Peloponnesian war?
Sparta became the most powerful City-State.
When were the Punic wars fought?
264-146 bc
Who fought in the Punic wars?
Rome and Carthage
Who won the Punic wars?
Rome
What were the Punic Wars fought over?
Control over islands like Cyprus
What was won in the Punic wars?
Rome gained much of the Western Mediterranean.
What is Monotheism?
Belief in only one god
What is a Polis
A Greek City-state
What is cultural diffusion?
The spreading or merging of different cultural ideas.
What is a Dictatorship?
Someone ruling with absolute power.
What is a Phalanx?
An Ancient Greek fighting formation.
What is a Republic?
Supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.
Who was Paul?
An apostle who spread Christianity through the Roman Empire.
Who is the Pope?
The father or leader of the Christian Church.
What was the importance of Byzantium?
Where the Roman Capitol was moved to, renamed to Constantinople.
What is a Monarchy?
Kings or monarch ruled in government.
What is an aristocracy?
A government ruled by a small group of Noble, wealthy, land-owning families. (“Ruled by the best”)
What is an Oligarchy?
A government ruled by a few powerful people. (“Ruled by a <privileged> few”)</privileged>
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The birth of Agriculture.
What is an Artifact?
Remains like tools jewelry and other human made objects.
What does prehistoric mean?
Before written records.
What was Domestication?
Taming of animals.
What is a Nomad?
Someone who wanders from place to place; no permeant settlement.
Agricultural?
Growing crops and rearing animals for food.
What is papyrus?
Egyptian invented paper.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
A bend in the River Nile where the Egyptians grew things.
What was the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley?
Where Mesopotamia was located.
What is the Torah?
The first five books of the Hebrew scripture.
Egyptian Civilization?
An ancient civilization in modern day Egypt. Worshipped ancient Egyptian gods and wrote with Hieroglyphics.
The Nile River?
A river that ran through Egypt and was used by Egyptians for many things.
What is a City State?
Each city and the surrounding land it controlled.
What is Sumer?
A City-State in Mesopotamia.
What is Theocracy?
When priests rule in the name of god.
What are Pyramids?
Big, triangular, tombs, Egyptians built for their kings.
What is a Dynasty?
Series of rulers from the same family.
What was mummification?
How Egyptians readied their dead for the after life.
What was the code of Hammurabi?
An eye for and eye.
What is the importance of the Rosetta Stone?
It was how we deciphered the ancient Egyptian language.
Sparta?
A military centered City-State in Greece. Lived a very harsh military style life.
Athens
A city-state in Greece, named after the Greek Godess Athena.
What was the Colosseum?
Roman arena. Gladiators fought here. Made to distract Roman’s from their bad living conditions.
