Ancient Stuff Flashcards

318666334	Mandate of Heaven	Meaning that heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely	0
318666335	Ziggurats	Are Sumerians built temples, which were kind of like pyramids, to appease their gods.	1
318666336	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.	2
318666337	Mauryan Empire	Was found by Chandragupta maurya who unified the smaller Aryan kingdoms into a civilization.	3
318666338	Code of Hammurabi	Is often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes.	4
318666339	Polytheistic	Meaning that they worshiped more than one god.	5
318666340	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	6
318666341	Caesar	Was given powers over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe.	7
318666342	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.	8
318666343	Lydians	They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system.	9
318666344	Egyptian	A civilization developed along the Nile River, where the soil was rich and the agricultural opportunities were plentiful.	10
318666345	Athens	A political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization.	11
318666346	Hittites	By 1500 B.C.E, the Hittites dominated the region, especially because they learned how to use iron in their weapons.	12
318666347	Nebuchadnezzar	Rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture.	13
318666348	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	14
318666349	Jenne-Jeno	Believed to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa.	15
318666350	Sparta	An agricultural and highly militaristic region.	16
318666351	Tikal	The most important Mayan political cente, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people.	17
318666352	Indus Valley	A civilization was built along the banks of a river system.	18
318666353	Five Pillars Of Islam	1) confessions of faith 2) Prayer five times per day 3) Charity to the needy 4) Fasting During the month-long Ramadan 5) Pilgramige to Mecca at least once during one's lifetime	19