Ancient stuff Flashcards

316192773	Queen Hatshepsut	The fist female ruler,ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom.
316192774	Mandate of Heaven	Meaning that heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely
316192775	Tikal	The most important Mayan political cente, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people.
316242122	Lydians	They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system.
316242123	Phoenicians	They established a powerful naval city-stated all along the Mediterranean and they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system.
316242124	Egyptian	A civilization developed along the Nile River, where the soil was rich and the agricultural opportunities were plentiful.
316242125	Athens	A political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization.
316242126	Sparta	An agricultural and highly militaristic region.
316242127	Caesar	Was given powers over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe.
316242128	Neolithic Revolution	In a span of several thousands years from about 8000 B.C.E to 3000 B.C.E , groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town and city life.
316242129	Hittites	By 1500 B.C.E, the Hittites dominated the region, especially because they learned how to use iron in their weapons.
316242130	Ziggurats	Are Sumerians built temples, which were kind of like pyramids, to appease their gods.
316242131	Polytheistic	Meaning that they worshiped more than one god.
317903951	Code of Hammurabi	Is often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes.
317903952	Nebuchadnezzar	Rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture.
317903953	Indus Valley	A civilization was built along the banks of a river system.
317903954	Jenne-Jeno	Believed to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa.
317903955	Olmec	What we know today as Mexico, from 1200 to 1400 B.C.E and the Chavin in the Andes from 900 to 300 B.C.E
317903956	Mauryan Empire	Was found by Chandragupta maurya who unified the smaller Aryan kingdoms into a civilization.
318199669	Gupta Empire	Was more decentralized and smaller than its predecessor, but it is often referred to as a golden age because it enjoyed relative peace and saw significant advances in art and sciences.