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History Exam Revieww
For Rutledge
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sky God of the Summerains | Anu |
| Earliest known cities, first city states | Ur |
| Land Between the Rivers. Between Tibus and Euphrades | Mesopotamia |
| Hammurabis big law code that focused on an eye for an eye justice | Code of Hammurabi |
| First Summerian Writing, First Writing | Cuneiform |
| Main Babylonian God | Marduk |
| Babylonian Ruler who builds hanging gardens | Nebuchadnezzar |
| Mountain of the GOds and Summerain Temple | Ziggurat |
| Nebuchadnezzer's wife . Reason for hanging gardens | Amythis |
| Mythic Hero King of Ancient Sumeria | Gilgamesh |
| Wildman character in epic of Gilgamesh | Enkidu |
| One of the only Immortals in the epic of Gilgamesh | Upnapishtim |
| Capital City of Assyrian Empire | Nineveh |
| Main Palace of Nineveh | Dur-Sharkin |
| Main GOd of Assyrians | Ahur |
| Fertility Gof of Assyrians | Ishtar |
| Persian Leader who unites major Persian Tribe | Cyrus |
| Land of Iranians | Iran |
| Best unit in Persain Military | Immortals |
| Capital of Persian Empire | Persepolis |
| Runs Babylons Astronomy program | Nabu-Rimanu |
| Maps Persian empire | Scylax |
| persian man who creates religon of good/evil force at war with one another | Zoroaster |
| Good force in Zoroasters religon | Ahuru Mazda |
| Bad force of Zoroaster's religon | Ahriman |
| First Place where gold coinage is used. Place where Atruscans may have migrated from | Lydia |
| Univeral creative energy that only woman possesed | Shakti |
| Hyms and rituals and chants of Ancient Indian People | Vedas |
| Time Period which Vedas are written | Vedic Age |
| Any dissapproval in government policy | Dissent |
| Indias greatest epic | Mahabharata |
| Chief learning center of Gupta Empire | Nalanda |
| Ancient Aryan war chiefs | Rajahs |
| First written language in India | Sanskrit |
| India's greates playwright | Kalidisa |
| Payment from Brides family to the groom | Dowry |
| Kalidsa's greates work | Shakuntala |
| Hindu god known as the preserver | Vishnu |
| Hindu god known as the destroyer | Shiva |
| Ritual in whihc widow throws herself on husbands funeral fire to wash away sins | Sati |
| FOunder of Jainisim | Mahavira |
| offshoot of Hinduisim focuses of non violences | Jainism |
| Homers epic of the trojan war | Illiad |
| Homers epic that talks about Odysseus return home | Odyssey |
| FOunder of Troy | Heinrich Schliemann |
| Mythic founder of Minoan Civilization | Minos |
| People that blend in with Minoan civilizations | Cyclades |
| Untranslated language of Minoans | Linear A |
| Prince who kills the Minotaur | Theseus |
| 1/2 bull 1/2 man who hides in the labyrinth | Minotaur |
| Greek RUler who starts Trojan War | Agamemnon |
| Best Trojan Warrior | Hector |
| Best Greek Warrior | Achilles |
| Author of Illiad/Odyssey | Homer |
| People who conquer Minoans and Myceneans....Future Spartans | Dorian Greeks |
| Greater Greece | Magna Graecia |
| Greek City State | Polis |
| Fortified center of the polis | Acropolis |
| market place at the bottom of the polis | Agora |
| unit of greek infantry | Hoplites |
| Main battle formation of the Greeks | Phalanx |
| Slave Class in Sparta | Helots |
| Merchants Allowed to do Business in SParta | Perioeci |
| Greek Reformer who fails because his rule is to harsh | Draco |
| takes water from the nile | Shadoof |
| unites upper and lowrr Egypt | Narmer |
| king god ruler of egypt | Pharaoh |
| main sungod of Egypt | Re |
| nile river god of egyptians | Hapi |
| intructions to how to get into Egyptian qfter life | Book of the Dead |
| process of preserving a dead body | Embalming |
| embalmed organs are placed in it | Canopic Jars |
| iron weapon using invaders that took Egypt | Hyskos |
| drives hyksos out of Egypt | Ahmose |
| pharaoh concerned with conquering territory | Thutmose III |
| pharaoh focused on expanding trade for power | Hatshepsut |
| African trade nation that trades with Egypt | Punt |
| capitol of old kingdom Egypt | Memphis |
| capitol of new kingdom Egypt | Thebes |
| closes ahmen Re’s temples and names himself god | amenhotep |
| child pharaoh that re opened ahmen re’s temples | Tutenkhamen (king Tut) |
| ancient Egyptian paper | Papyrus |
| Macedonian leader that conquers Macedonia and unifies Greece | Philip II |
| best unit of army and best calvary | Companion Calvary |
| speaker who warns about phillip the II | Demothoneses |
| battle where phillip conquers Greece | Chaeronea |
| best male fighters (homos) | Sacred Band |
| The most famous Han dynasty leader | Wudi |
| The pesant who leads a revolt to establish the Han Dynasty | Gao Zu |
| When One civilization sets the foundation of future civilizations | Classic Age |
| The right to rule because a god says its ok | Mandate of Heaven |
| The yellow river, river of sorrows, or the orgin of China | Huang He |
| founder of the philosophy of Daiosim | Laozi |
| official who creates modern way to make paper from wood pulp | Cai Lun |
| (Kong Fuzi) founder of confucinisim | Confuscious |
| King of Akkad. Would routinely defeat the Assyrians | Nabopallazer |
| The Babylonian leader who loses Babylon to Persia | Bellchazer |
| Assyrian Ruler responsible for completely destroying babylon | Sennachrib |
| Assyrain ruler who continues construction of one of the world’s first library | Ashur-Benipall |
| raises Assyrian empire to the highest ever | Sargon II |
| Primary source that tells us how important the nile was | Hymn of the nile |
| Buriel of the Pharaohs of the old kingdom | Pyramadic of Giza |
| Time period when all items were made of bronze | Bronze Age |
| Ramzy the second VS the hittites in Syria | Battle of Kadesh |
| The cemetic fertility god usually pictured as a golden calf | Baal |
| what the greeks refer to the Phaneceans | Purple People |
| Greek historian that gives us accounts of Nineveh | Zenefon |
| First Indus civilization | Harrappan |
| Earliest collection of the Vedas | Rig Veda |
| Code of Manu | |
| Chinese bronze image of an animal | Taoti |
| Lower chinese nobility | Shi |
| Ultimate of Virtue of Confucinism | Ren |
| Any political unit used of Clasthones | Deme |
| common dialect of all greek language | Koine |
| Government ruled by a Tyrant | Tyranny |
| Aryan God of war | Indra |
| Aryan god of order and creation | Veruna |
| Indian God of fire and communications to people | Agri |
| Indian ruler who allows for Budhisism to come into India | Asoka |
| Founds Mauryan empire | Chandragupta Maurya |
| Greek reformer who frees the slaves, erases depts., and allows non natives to be citizens | Solon |
| Helps out the poor by giving them land | Peistratus |
| Creates the democratic reform which will last until until the fall of Greece | Clietheneses |
| Egyptian god of harvest and eternal life | Osiris |
| Egyptian Goddess of the underworld | Isis |
| Egytptian God whose eyes represent the Sun and the Moon | Horus |
| Egytpian God of embalming and cemeteries | Anubis |
| considered to be the last great egyptiain pharaoh | Ramsy II |
| A philosophy in which u are only happy if u are in harmony with nature | Stoicisim |
| Ethical behavior is outlined in nature | Natural Law |
| The earth rotates around the Sun | Heliocenetic Theory |
| Philosphy in which you need to live life without fear and suffering | Epicureanisim |
| Sets up the foundation for Hellenistic Medecine | Hippocrates |
| Sumerian civilization | 3500-7500 |
| Vedic Age | 1500-500 |
| Maurya Empire | 321-185 BC |
| Mycenean civilization | 1400-1200 |
| Rule of the Greek Tyrants | 650-550 BC |
| Egypt’s Old Kingdom | 2600-2300 |
| Egyptian Empire | 3100-671 |
| Han Dynasty | 202-220 AD |
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