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| 11608431547 | what was nubia's nick name & why? | "land of the bow" because they had good archery & good bows | 0 | |
| 11608440735 | describe the aegean landscape, crops, and animals | the landscape was rocky and arid with plains, hills, and mountains. the crops were grains, olives, and grapes. animals were sheep and goats | 1 | |
| 11608450257 | the first european civilization was? where? | the Minoan, that was located on the island of crete | 2 | |
| 11608497228 | what were the economic and political nature of the Minoans? | they were a centralized government (ruled by a king). they traded, fished, and grew stuff | 3 | |
| 11608517814 | Minoan art? topics? | made frescoes (paintings on moist plaster). They reflected respect for nature. their common subjects were women, athletics (jumping over charging bulls) and animals (they were into dolphins) | 4 | |
| 11608544866 | Who took over the Minoans? | Mycenaeans | 5 | |
| 11608550607 | Mycenaean economics and politics? | they were a decentralized government. they traded to get resources (became wealthy through trade) lived on the aegean - which was very rocky, mountainous, and was a peninsula (which has water on three sides of it) | 6 | |
| 11608601274 | Mycenaean Weapons? | they used spears, swords, boats, and iron | 7 | |
| 11608605974 | Mycenaean Architecture | they had palaces and a central hall on top of a hill, shaft graves, etc | 8 | |
| 11608627871 | Mycenaean written language? | linear b - we are unable to read and understand | 9 | |
| 11608650530 | what were shaft graves (Mycenaean) | they were a circle of graves at the base of deep rectangular shafts that contained bodies. the land is hilly and rocky so they dig through the rocks dumping bodies into them | 10 | |
| 11608663342 | describe the dark ages | a period of isolation and loss of knowledge for centuries, caused by external violence and interval weakness. the population goes down (due to people moving) and wealthy lose power | 11 | |
| 11608683694 | describe the iron age | iron is more superior to bronze because its harder and sharper, its a single metal, simple to obtain, and more durable | 12 | |
| 11608741682 | why did assyria have an empire? | they expanded and took over areas that were not controlled before, and took over land. the religion and culture of all the people in these areas were brought into their group | 13 | |
| 11608758522 | what was assyria know for | they were the largest empire that the world had seen until that point. they were also known for deportation (which was moving people to a place they've never been to before) | 14 | |
| 11608775608 | assryia trade? | their trade expanded to the mediterreran sea area, armenia, and babylon-iran | 15 | |
| 11608795604 | what did ashur do? | holy city | 16 | |
| 11608816120 | was the assyria empire too big? why? | yes, because army and resources were spread too thin (decentralized) | 17 | |
| 11608833443 | why did assyria practice deportation? | it destroyed the morale of the conquered and broke their spirits | 18 | |
| 11608849537 | what did assryia use for their exchange system? | used silver as their exchange unit | 19 | |
| 11608860240 | egypt - new kingdom! who took over to make it new? | the hyskos | 20 | |
| 11608869225 | what did the pharaohs (male and female) do? build? | ~queen hepasheut (the first female pharaoh) - she produced riches for egypt and enabled her to maintain control ~Akhenaton (religious revolution- some say it was monotheistic) ~aten (built a new capitail between thebes and memphis) ~tutankhamen (boy king and only remembered because his tomb had not be pillaged) | 21 | |
| 11608874502 | why did trade increase in egypt - new kingdom? | because they made trips out of egypt ( before they didn't because they had to get back before the sun set, and if they didn't, then they wouldn't go to the after life). | 22 | |
| 11608892887 | Describe the Hebrew religion | monotheistic, main belief was one god (yahwen) | 23 | |
| 11609042715 | list the founder and kings and what they did (egypt - new kingdom) | early leaders Abraham (started the religion), Issac, and Jacob, Joseph (sold as a slave and became influential in egypt) salomen - built the first temple | 24 | |
| 11609131986 | what was the hebrew social system like? | herders, caravan drivers, and nomads (had huge gaps between the rich and the poor) | 25 | |
| 11609149717 | famous buildings? (egypt - new kingdom) | synagogue | 26 | |
| 11609161631 | who led the exodus? where they leave from? how many years? | Moses led the exodus. they left from egypt and it took them 40 years | 27 | |
| 11609269470 | what were assyrians and babylonians religious beliefs | dietary restrictions, only ate chrosture, cannot marry non-jews | 28 | |
| 11609674899 | Diaspora? who? why? | "dispersal of jews" // because they took over isarel (maintained religion and cukture) | 29 | |
| 11611109027 | where can you find historic evidence of the hebrews? | old testament | 30 | |
| 11611122317 | what was the nickname of the Phoenicians? | carriers of civilization | 31 | |
| 11611158217 | what did the nickname of the Phoenicians have to do with trade? | because they were colonizers and traded a lot (cultural division) | 32 | |
| 11611169291 | what were the Phoenicians famous color? | purple | 33 | |
| 11611172503 | where were the Phoenicians originally found? | north of isarel | 34 | |
| 11611176975 | what is the name of the Phoenician's large colony? | carthage | 35 | |
| 11611179779 | where was carthage located? | North Africa (near tunis) | 36 | |
| 11611191189 | what was the foreign policy of carthage? | commercial empire kept people happy | 37 | |
| 11611195972 | what was the economy of carthage based on? | trade | 38 | |
| 11611204441 | describe carthage's main harbor | shape of a circle (it was to get many ships in) | 39 | |
| 11611207664 | what was carthage's triangle? | Phoenician triangle | 40 | |
| 11611218563 | what body of water did the Phoenician triangle dominate? | mediterranean | 41 | |
| 11611226528 | how did carthage dominate this body of water? | they had a very large navy (people did the rowing on the ships to the beat of the drum) | 42 | |
| 11611239374 | what was a tophet? | a shrine area where sacrifices are made. said that babies were sacrificed but the problem is that this was said by the romans (since they wrote the documents) and they won so its unsure if their telling the truth | 43 |
