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WH Midterm6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What circles the middle of the Earth like a belt? | the Equator |
| What is a globe? | a new model for the Earth that was developed after geographers realized that the Earth was not flat |
| the Prime Meridian | imaginary vertical line that circles the globe |
| special purpose map | a map that shows themes or patterns |
| physical map | a map that shows land and water features |
| political map | a map that shows the names and borders of countries |
| the law of demand | the lower the price of a good or service, the more of it people will want to buy |
| the law of supply | the higher the price of a good or service, the more of it people will want to sell |
| the process of globalization | ties among the world's economies |
| migration | Populations moving from one place to settle in another place |
| labor | the ability of people to do work |
| What is a resource | something that is useful |
| What contributed to the success of the Assyrian army? | iron weapons |
| cuneiform | an ancient writing system that involves cutting wedge-shaped marks into clay |
| artisans | skilled workers who make metal products, cloth, and pottery |
| Sumerian kings received power from? | the city's god |
| Mesopotamia is located in this present-day country | Iraq |
| Akkadian king who conquered all of Mesopotamia | Sargon |
| capital of the Chaldean empire | Babylon |
| Chaldean Empire is sometimes also called this | New Babylonian Empire |
| created and ruled the Babylonian Empire | Hammurabi |
| Mixture of copper and tin is called this | Bronze |
| dynasty | a line of rulers that passes power from father to son |
| length of the Nile River | 4,000 miles |
| upper class in Egypt | priests and noble |
| Egyptian invention created to prevent the pharaoh's body from decomposing | embalming |
| the diagram of Egypt's social classes has the shape of a ____________? | pyramid |
| The chief Egyptian god during the New Kingdom | Aton |
| Chief Egyptian god during the Old Kingdom | Re |
| tributes | forced payments from conquered people to the pharaoh |
| the type of land that borders the Nile River in Egypt | deserts |
| What did farmers have to use to recreate their boundary markers after the Nile's predictable flooding? | geometry |
| Egyptian king who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt | Ahmose |
| Egyptian pharaoh who tried to give the Egyptians a new religion | Amenhotep |
| Which Egyptian leader caused Egypt to lose most of its lands in western Asia to outside invaders? | Akhenaton |
| How did the Hyksos manage to defeat the Egyptians? | horse-drawn chariots and had iron weapons |
| he Valley of Kings | the limestone cliffs of the Middle Kingdom where Pharaohs had their tombs |
| How were Kushite pyramids different from Egyptian pyramids? | they were smaller and more steeply sloped |
| Which Egyptian social class is made up of traders, artisans, and scribes | the middle class |
| the Kushite king who invaded Egypt in 750 B.C. | Kashta |
| Why did the Kushite capital move to Meroe? | to be near iron ore deposits |
| Ancient Egyptians called present day Sudan by what name? | Nubia |
| When the capital of Kush was located on a trade route, what was it called? | Napata |
| What was Sparta's economy based on? | agriculture |
| Who were the Spartans descended from? | Dorians |
| Sparta's government was a(n) _________ | oligarchy |
| Greece's mainland was a _________________________. | peninsula |
| Greece established colonies around 700 B.C. for what reason? | their population was increasing and they could not grow enough food to feed all of their people |
| Why did tyrants come to power in Greece after 650 B.C.? | the unrest of merchants, artisans, and farmers towards the land-owning merchant |
| Why did Greek communities develop such independent city-states? | geography caused independent city-states, separated by mountains and valleys |
| Why did Sparta have such a strict government? | to discourage free thinking and new ideas which they felt would lead to revolt |
| Who encouraged worship of the goddess Athena? | Peisistratus |
| What dominated the geography of Greece? | mountains and seas |
| speech that reinforced the benefits of democracy | Funeral Oration |
| threatened Greece after the Peloponnesian Wars? | Macedonia |
| citizen soldier | hoplite |
| Delian League | formed to defend its members from the Persians |
| direct democracy | citizens participating in government |
| representative democracy | citizens electing officials to govern on their behalf |
| provided Sparta with gold to build ships | Persians |
| encouraged women to participate in government | Aspasia |
| thinkers who reflected on the meaning of life | philosophers |
| were always under the care of a male family member | Athenian women |
| had more freedom than most Greek women because they lived without men most of the time | Spartan women |
| the "first citizen" of Athens who encouraged the arts and learning | Pericles |
| a Greek military formation of citizen soldiers | phalanx |
| the ancient Olympic games were held in honor of whom? | Zeus |
| Under what conditions could Athenian upper class women leave home? | only when accompanied by a man |
| King Darius' power rested on the success of which of his officials? | his satraps |
| Greek naval forces were directed by this military leader during the war between Greece and Persia | Themistocles |
| Name the major difference between the Persian and Greek armies. | Greeks had small armies of hoplites, citizen soldiers, and the Persians had professional, paid soldiers. |
| What did the Persians do to the Greeks after the defeat at the Strait of Salamis? | the Persian foot soldiers set fire to Athens |
| What did Athens do after the Persian Wars ended? | became the most important city-state in Greece, the economic and cultural center |
| What happened to the Greek city-states after the Peloponnesian War? | they were divided and weakened |
| How did Athenian men spend their afternoons? | exercising at the gymnasium |
| Today, where is Persia located? | Iran |
| What did Leonidas do when his troops were surrounded at Thermopylae? | dismissed most of them and stayed with 300 to fight to the death |
| Who was the king of Persia? | Xerxes |
| Name the battle the Greeks lost that they celebrated despite losing. | Gold so that Sparta could build its own navy |
| Even though Athens was a democracy, what was very common in this society? | slavery |
| At the Straits of Salamis, why were the Greeks ships able to defeat the Persians? | the Greek ships were smaller and faster and could better maneuver around the Persian |
| What conquest did Cyrus make that gave the Persians control of Greek territory even before the Greek and Persian Wars? | Anatolia |
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