Chapter 1 Flashcards
(15 cards)
1
The Hittite empire was situated in ___ _____
Asia Minor
2
The arrival of which people in the Near East around 1200BCE led to the destruction of nearly every state in the region.
The Indo Europeans
3
The _______ ____ designates a world that bridges Europe and Western Asia
Greater West
4
Babylon was founded in _____
1950 BCE
5
Scholars have credited _____ as the first great lawgiver in Western history.
Hammurabi
6
Babylonian women did not have the right to divorce their husbands
False
7
The epic of ______ is the tale of ruler of Uruk some 800 years before the Babylonian conquest
Gilgamesh
8
The erosion of the royal authority beginning in the 5th dynasty of the old kingdom empty brough about the ___ _______ ______
1st Intermediate Period
9
Egypt’s capital during the Middle Kingdom was moved to ______
Thebes
10
From 1640 to 1570 BCE Egypt was dominated by _______
Hyksos
11
Who said he had “Pushed the boundaries of Egypt as far as the sun shines” ?
Thutmose I
12
The goal of Egyptianizing the broader near east had to do with aiding the development of civilization.
False
13
Akhenaten is famous for?
Worshiping a single supreme diety
14
Perhaps one half of all surviving Egyptian monuments were built by whom?
Ramses II
15
Indo European is believed to have originated where?
North of the Black Sea
