AP World History First Civilizations Flashcards
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| 10654519666 | What was the first civilization to emerge? | Mesopotamia | 0 | |
| 10654519667 | Where is Mesopotamia located? | Fertile Crescent | 1 | |
| 10654519668 | Where is Mesopotamia located in present day? | Iraq | 2 | |
| 10654519669 | What are some features that civilizations created? | •inequality •new forms of government •writing •development of urban centers | 3 | |
| 10654519670 | What were some things the Mesopotamians developed? | The wheel, use of copper, and bronze tools | 4 | |
| 10654519671 | The Sumerians soon took over Mesopotamia | Yeah idk I just put that in there | 5 | |
| 10654519672 | Why were the Sumerians important? | •cuneiform •epic of Gilgamesh •invention of the wheel | 6 | |
| 10654519673 | What is the first form of writing? | Cuneiform | 7 | |
| 10654519674 | What were the believes of the Sumerians? | They were polytheistic and believed the gods were anthropomorphic. | 8 | |
| 10654519675 | What religious buildings did the Sumerians build? | Ziggurats | 9 | |
| 10654519676 | Akkadians | "Semitic people" north of the Sumerian city-state. Lasted only 200 years and was the first instance of dynastic rule | 10 | |
| 10654519677 | Assyrians | Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire | 11 | |
| 10654519678 | Something the Assyrians were known for | The capital of asur | 12 | |
| 10654519679 | The dankest civilization that went by the name of Babylon | They created the beautiful Hammurabi and Hammurabi's code | 13 | |
| 10654519680 | The political structure of the Sumerians | •Stressed city-states ruled by a king who claimed divined authority •regulated religion and enforced duties •began a tradition of slavery | 14 | |
| 10654519681 | Social structure of the Sumerians | They were a patriarchal society they did not allow women to work and women had few legal protections | 15 | |
| 10654519682 | Facts about cuneiform | Rather than letters cuneiform was consisted of shapes and symbols in often written on clay tablets | 16 | |
| 10654519683 | Epic of Gilgamesh | The most famous extant literary work from ancient Mesopotamia, it tells the story of one man's quest for immortality. | 17 | |
| 10654519684 | Hammurabi | He was the sixth king of Babylon | 18 | |
| 10654519685 | Hammurabi's code | Had a laws that were based off of an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth ideology | 19 | |
| 10654519686 | Where were the Phoenicians located? | present day Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan | 20 | |
| 10654519687 | Phoenicians created Carthage | Carthage was a primary trading post in north Africa | 21 | |
| 10654519688 | Why were the Phoenicians important? | They came up with an alphabetic script consisted of 22 letters | 22 | |
| 10654519689 | Where were the Hebrews located? | Palestine, Israel, Lebanon | 23 | |
| 10654519690 | The Hebrews were founded by? | Abraham | 24 | |
| 10654519691 | Where did the Hebrews go? | They left Mesopotamia to establish Canaan (promised land) | 25 | |
| 10654519692 | Why did the Hebrews leave Canaan to go to Egypt? | Drought | 26 | |
| 10654519693 | What happened to the Hebrews in Egypt | They became slaves | 27 | |
| 10654519694 | What did Moses receive on Mt. Sinai? | 10 commandments | 28 | |
| 10654519695 | When Moses took them back to Canaan what happened? | They fought the Philistines and defeated them | 29 | |
| 10654519696 | Things that happen under King David's rule | They establish Jerusalem and expanded borders and believed in the prosperity to the holy land | 30 | |
| 10654519697 | Things that king Solomon did | What is real and Judah we can eventually exel the Babylon also persons allowed Hebrews to return home | 31 |