AP World Unit 1 Flashcards

201360938	Sargon of Akkad	World's first emperor of first empire	0
201360939	Hammurabi	Leader of Amorites	1
201360940	Menes	Unifier of upper and lower Egypt	2
201360941	Hatshepsut	woman regent of Egypt - wanted to be remembered as man	3
201360942	Thutmosis III	Who expanded the Egyptian Empire territorially?	4
201360943	Amenhotep IV	Tried to make Egypt monotheistic (sun god only)	5
201360944	Akhenaten	what Amenhotep changed his name to	6
201360945	Tut	Takes over after his father is assassinated (Egypt)	7
201360946	Saul	1st king of Israelites	8
201360947	Solomon	Built temple in Jerusalem	9
201360948	David	Built Jerusalem	10
201360949	Ashurbinapal	Assyrian king	11
201360950	Nebachadnezzar	forced Jews into Babylonian Captivity	12
201360951	Cyrus the Great	creater of the Persion Empire	13
201360952	Darius the Great	Built Persepolis	14
201360953	Darius the Great	Extended Persion Empire to Indus River	15
201360954	Darius the Great	Practiced Zoroastrianism	16
201360955	Hammurabi	Had written code of law (eye for eye...)	17
201360956	Paleolithic Age	remembered for fire, language, division of labor	18
201360957	Neolithic Revolution	domestication of plants and animals, independent development, controlled environment	19
201360958	Catul Huyuk	First modern day city	20
201360959	Anatolia, Turkey	Present day location of Catul Huyuk	21
201360960	Obsidian	What was traded widely in Catul Huyuk	22
201360961	Mesopotamia	Located on Tigris and Euphrates Rivers	23
201360962	Egypt	Located on Nile River	24
201360963	India	Located on Indus River Valley	25
201360964	China	Located on Yellow River	26
201360965	China	Most continuous civilization; 300 BCE - present	27
201360966	Sumer	most populated city-state of Mesopotamia	28
201360967	Epic of Gilgamesh	story from Ur; flood destroys everything (Noah's Ark?)	29
201360968	Ziggurat	Huge temple at center of Ur; pyramid-shaped	30
201360969	Theocracy	Gov't in Sumer	31
201360970	Double Diadem	2 crowns together; Egypt; shows unity	32
201360971	Memphis	capital of Old Kingdom	33
201360972	Books of the Dead	Most famous Heiroglyphics writing; tells path to eternal happiness	34
201360973	Osiris	Egpytian god of the dead	35
201360974	Iris	Wife of Egpytian god of the dead	36
201360975	Ka	soul-spirit, which is to be protected in Egypt	37
201360976	Suez Canal	Present-day name of canal built in Middle Kingdom	38
201360977	Nile River	River that has predictable flooding	39
201360978	Tigris/ Euphrates Rivers	Rivers with unpredictable flooding	40
201360979	Hyksos	Indo-Europeans that control Egypt for 150 years during Middle Kingdom	41
201360980	Thebes	Capital of Egypt in New Kingdom	42
201360981	Egyptians	Who created 365 day calendar	43
201360982	Egyptians	Who classified dieases, medicinal/ poisonous classes in the ancient Middle East?	44
201360983	Hittites	First to have iron weapons	45
201360984	Phoenicians	First maritime-based civilization	46
201360985	Byblos, Tyre, Sidon	Cities of Phoenicians	47
201360986	Carthage	Most important Phoenician colony	48
201360987	Phoenicians	created phonetic alphabet!	49
201360988	Purple	color of dye used by Phoenicians	50
201360989	Hebrews	Monotheistic civilization - Headed by Abraham	51
201360990	Rameses II	Enslaves Hebrews after famine	52
201360991	Assyrians	Overthrow Israelites in 8th century BCE	53
201360992	Assyrians	Brutal military - strategic fighting	54
201360993	Nineveh	Capital for Assyrians	55
201360994	Chaldeans	Semitic-speaking; create 2nd Babylonian Empire	56
201360995	Chaldeans	Overthrown by Persians	57
201360996	Persian Empire	World's first superpower	58
201360997	Susa	Original capital of Persian Empire	59
201360998	Persepolis	Second capital of Persian Empire	60
201360999	Satraps	Names for Persian governors & provinces	61
201361000	Royal Road	Mail system built by Persians to allow info to travel faster	62
201361001	Zoroastrianism	Truly 1st monotheistic religion; biggest in world at one point	63