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History 1
History 1, Pierce College, Professor Walsh, Western Civ 1 (1st test)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ice age (Date) | Paleolithic (Old stone age)- 2.6mya-10,00BC |
| Paleolithic culture | Wandering tribes of 20-30 people |
| Land bridge crossed (Date) | 40,000~12,000BC (Paleolithic) |
| Neolithic period (dates) | 8000-4000 BC |
| Neolithic Revolution | domestication of plants and animals |
| Major developments of the Neolithic | agriculture, domestication->permanent settlements->social stratification, kings +priests, epidemics |
| What is important about the gender division of labor in the Neolithic period? | Women may have been more powerful than men b/c they began agriculture |
| Why weren’t the Americas as advanced as the West? | 1)Time (Nomadic longer) 2)Geography (lots of latitudes->Varied climate->less cultural exchange) |
| Hydraulic civilization | Great flood-management programs- > government/cooperation |
| Civilization began (date)... (xw) | 7800 BC Neolithic Jericho (x?- That’s what walsh said) |
| What are the two earliest great civilizations | Egypt and Mesopotamia |
| Settlement of Sumer beings (Date) | c 5500 BC |
| First city-states in Mesopotamia (Date) | c 4000 BC |
| Civilization and intercity wars in Mesopotamia (Date) | 4000-2350 |
| First Dynasty of Ur (Royal Tombs) (dates) | 2600-2500 |
| Ebla | Culturally Mesopotamian independent city-state |
| Height of Ebla (dates) | 2400-2250 |
| Sargon’s grandson burns Ebla (date) | 2250 |
| Akkadian Empire (Sargon) | 2370-2215 |
| Sumerian Empire (date) | 2100-2000 |
| Old Baylonian Empire (Amorites)(Date) | 2000-1530 |
| Kassites dominate Mesopotamia (date) | 1530-1100 |
| Epic of Gilgamesh (date) | 2000 BC |
| Mesopotamia (Geography) | Between Tigris and Euphrates |
| Mesopotamia (Political) | Independent city states w/ Oligarchies ( appointed kings in crises)+ Warring factions (Akkadians, Eblas, Babylonians) -> hereditary monarchies, empires |
| Mesopotamia (Legal) | Hammurabi’s code, slaves + classes |
| What was the first writing? | inventory by Mesopotamian priests at Sumer ("History begins at Sumer.") |
| Name some imporatant legacies (discoveries, etc.) left by Mesopotamia. | Math (+,-, fractions, base 60), Calendar, Weights and measure, Epic of gilgamesh , Hammurabi’s Code |
| Hammurabi’s code (Date) | 1700 BC |
| Why was Hammurabi’s code written? (Historical forces and acccording to the document iteself) | To keep order because of lawlessness and factional warfare. According to document: 1)Justice, 2)Destroy wicked and evil, 3)So that the strong may not oppress the weak |
| Mesopotamia (environment) | hot, earthquakes, storms, unpredictable floods |
| Mesopotamia (Religion) | People are servants of the Gods, fatalism (<- environment), Ziggurats, Rituals-1)King’s confession and humiliation, 2)King’s intercourse w/ fertility priestess 3)Recital of creation myth |
| Sargon | Akkadian conqueror of Mesopotamia |
| Old Babylon-- aka ___ | Amorites, Hammurabi |
| Kassites | Conquered Mesopotamia c1530 with chariots |
| Egypt (geography) | Built around the Nile, 90% desert ->protected from invasion |
| Egypt (legal) | pharaoh decides (“The law is in the pharaoh’s mouth”) |
| Egypt (Political) | Unified under pharaoh, not fractious (until later) |
| How was Egypt formed? | Many "nomes"> 2 major kingdoms (Upper and Lower)>Namer conquered and united c3100 |
| Early Dynastic Period (Date and basic description) | 3150-2700, growth and invention |
| Old Kingdom (Date and basic description) | 2700-2200, absolute monarchy, classical age |
| First Intermediate Period (Date and basic description) | 2200-2040, disintegration of royal power |
| Middle Kingdom (Date and basic description) | 2040-1785, renaissance |
| Second Intermediate Period (Date and basic description) | 1785-1560, Hykos rule Egypt |
| Hykos overthrown (date) | 1560 |
| New Kingdom (Date and basic description) | 1560-1070, Imperialism, Akhenaten, Tutankamen, and Ramses II |
| Akhenaten | weirdly monotheistic pharaoh, New Kingdom |
| Tutankamen | pharaoh, only important because of his tomb, New Kingdom |
| Ramses II | Last great pharaoh, New Kingdom |
| Egypt (religion) | God-King, developed from a crude idea of afterlife as a continuation to a pre-Christian idea of individual salvation through works. And wierdo Akhenaten. |
| Hittites (dates) | Feudal society, height 1400-1200, colonized Egypt-1265 |
| Canaanite alphabet appears (date) | 1700 |
| Iron age begins (date) | 1200 |
| Hittites empire collapse (dates and why) | 1200-1180, sea people |
| Sea people invasions (dates) | c1300-1000 |
| Philistines | sea people who settled in Canaan c1175 |
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