Midterm 2016 Flashcards
(110 cards)
1
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Means division
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Peleg
2
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Site of first postdiluvian civilization
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Sumer
3
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History’s second great empire builder
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Sargon of Akkad
4
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Developed world’s most ancient law code
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Ur-Nammu
5
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World’s oldest work of literature outside of bible
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Epic of Gilgamesh
6
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First empire to rule Middle East
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Babylon
7
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Built world’s first great library at Nineveh
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Ashurbanipal
8
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Cyrus the great
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New Babylonian empire
9
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World’s first postal service
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Darius 1
10
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Queen Esther’s husband
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Xerxes I
11
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Ahasuerus
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Xerxes I
12
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First true alphabet
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Sinai script
13
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When was Israel the greatest nation under rule of david and Solomon
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1000 BC
14
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When did northern kingdom of Israel fall to assyrians
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721 BC
15
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When did southern kingdom of Israel fall to babylonians
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586 BC
16
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Destruction of Jerusalem
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AD 70
17
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Hegira
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“Flight”
18
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Asia’s 3 great fertile river valleys
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Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, Huang He
19
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Where are Himalayan mountains
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India
20
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Pariah
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Bottom of caste system, untouchable
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Siddhartha Guatama
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Buddhism
22
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Guptas
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AD 320-535
23
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India’s golden age
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Guptas (AD 320-535)
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World’s oldest living civilization
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China
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China's 2 great river systems
Huang He &a Yangtze
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China's Sorrow
Huang He river
27
Shang dynasty
1525-1028 BC
28
Chou dynasty
1122-256 BC
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Dynasty Developed writing
Shang
30
China's longest ruling dynasty
Chou
31
First emperor of united china
Shin Huang Ti
32
Great Wall of China
Ch'in Dynasty
33
Which dynasty: great Silk Road
Han dynasty
34
Largest continental empire in history
Genghis Khan
35
Nippon
Source of the sun
36
Ainu
Original inhabitants of Japan
37
Shinto
Oldest surviving religion in Japan
38
Mikado
Emperor
39
First Pharaoh of all Egypt
Memes
40
Father of history
Herodotus
41
Female pharaoh
Hatshepsut
42
Extended boarders to farthest extent
Thutmose III
43
Founded new kingdom in Egypt
Ahmose I
44
Pharaoh during Hebrew exodus
Amenhotep II
45
Established a Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty
Ptolemy
46
World's largest desert
Kalahari desert
47
Africas tallest mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro
48
Africas largest lake, source of Nile
Lake Victoria
49
Greatest ancient civilization in africas interior
Kingdom of Cush
50
First African on record to become Christian
Ethiopian Eunich
51
Aegean civilization
Minoans, Mycenaeans, Trojans
52
First important European civilization after flood
Minoans
53
Emerged the hellenes
Mycenaeans
54
Hellenes
1100-800 BC / Mycenaeans
55
Homer wrote
Iliad & Odyssey
56
Persian king, crushed Ionian revolt
Darius I
57
490 BC / Darius (Persians vs Greece)
Greco-Persian wars
58
Narrow mountain pass in central Greece near Aegean Sea
Thermopylae
59
Athenian who tricked Xerxes
Themistocles
60
Pelopponesian League
Sparta
61
Draco's Code
Every offense punishable by death
62
Brought Athenian democracy to fullest measure
Pericles
63
Golden age of Greece
Age of pericles
64
Pelopponesian war
431-404 BC / Sparta vs Athens
65
King of Macedonia/ wanted to capture all of Greece
Philip II
66
Famous Athenian orator and statesman
Demosthenes
67
Greek city-states
Hellenic League
68
700-338 BC / classical age of Greece - when Greece flourished
Hellenic age
69
Said, "man is the measure of all things"
Protagoras
70
Parthenon
Athens
71
Father of history
Herodotus
72
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
73
Asked, "what is the best way to live?"
Socrates
74
Crossed Hellespont in 334 BC / Philip II son
Alexander the Great
75
Inspired by Socrates / wrote The Republic
Plato
76
Student of Plato / concluded that order of universe must have come from God
Aristotle
77
323-30 BC
Hellenistic Age
78
Pietas
Gravitas
Dignitas
Piety- sense of duty
Gravity- seriousness of purpose
Dignity- sense of personal worth
79
Founding of Rome
753 BC
80
Upper class "insiders"
Patricians
81
Lower class "outsiders"
Plebeians
82
Pantheon
Rome
83
Roman republic
509 BC
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509 BC
Roman republic
85
Hannibal
2nd Punic war
86
Tiberius Gracchus
Roman tribune
87
Sulla
Champion of senate
88
Marius
Idol of Masses
89
Massage disobeyed and crossed
Rubicon river
90
Caesar stabbed to death
March 15, 44 BC
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Pax Romana
30BC- AD180
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Claudia emperors
Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero
93
Buried Pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius
94
Stone wall built in Britain
Hadrian's wall
95
Rules empire after Pax Romana
Barracks emperors
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Edict of Milan
Constantine (legalized Christianity)
97
Divided Rome into East and West in AD 395
Theodosius I
98
Tiber river
Rome
99
700-338 BC
Hellenic
100
323-30 BC
Hellenistic
101
Rome's 1st civil war
Marius vs. Sulla
102
Marius supported by...
| Sulla supported by...
Masses
| Senate
103
Second civil war
Julius Caesar vs. Pompey
104
Caesar supported by...
| Pompey supported by...
Masses
| Senate
105
Third civil war
Octavian vs. Mark Antony
106
Octavian supported by...
| Mark Antony supported by...
Masses
| Sent
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Rome's sewage system
Claudius
108
Aegean civilization
Minoans- 2000 BC
Mycenaeans- 1900 BC
Dorians- 1100-800 BC
109
Division of new Greek Empire
Ptolemies...
Seleucids...
Antigonids...
Egypt (Cleopatra part of)
Syria, Mesopotamia
Macedonia, Greece
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Builder of first world empire
Nimrod
