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dexter history final
dexter sophomore history final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who preserved Minoan culture | mycenaeans |
| how did Macedonia conquer Greece | Greece didn't prepare for war |
| people who dominated Greece | king of Macedonia, Alexander the Great |
| why was Greece hard to unify | no way of communication, geography |
| who ruled Greece for 400 years but were illiterate | Dorians |
| Greek fighting formation | phalanx |
| how did Athens form a democracy | making timely reforms |
| emphasis of Sparta | military strength |
| what major event happened before the golden age | Persian war |
| who was Demonsthenes | philosopher, warned Greeks about Macedon |
| art formed during the age of Pericles | sculptures and buildings |
| democracy under Pericles | direct democracy |
| who fought in the Peloponnesian war? | Sparta & Athens |
| built the largest empire known to man at the time | Alexander the Great |
| which regions did Alexander conquer | Persia, Anatolia, India, Greece |
| what part of the Persia did Alexander conquer first | Anatolia |
| culture of the Hellenistic age | foremost center of commerce & Hellenistic civilization |
| importance of Alexandria Egypt | famous museums & libraries |
| wrote Elements | Euclid |
| largest Hellenistic statue | Colossus of Rhodes |
| difference between Hellenistic sculpture and classical | Hellenistic=realism; classical=value & beauty |
| Arab nomads | Bedouin |
| submission to the will of Allah | Islam |
| "one who has submitted" | Muslim |
| the concept of belief in one god, Arabic | Allah |
| migration to Yithrab from Mecca by Mohamed | Hijrah |
| once known as Yithrab, town | Medina |
| fiath prayer alms fasting pilgramage | 5 pillars |
| islamic house of worship | mosque |
| mohemad's birthplace | Mecca |
| pilgramage to Mecca | Hajj |
| holy book for Muslims | Koran |
| jewish book of God | Torah |
| mohamed's example | sunna |
| body of law | sharia'a |
| business woman, Mohamed's wife | Khadijah |
| succesor or deputy | caliph |
| use of Koran and Mohamed's actions as guides to leadership | "rightly guided" |
| powerful family | umayyad |
| rejected umayyad's | sufi |
| followers of Mohamed's example | sunni |
| "party of ari" | shi'a |
| took control of the empire | abbasid |
| muslim state in Spain | al-andalus |
| along with Damascus & Cairo, a cultural blending of people | Baghdad & Cordoba |
| Muslims at birth converts to Islam "protected people" Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, slaves | Muslim class system |
| letters of credit | sakk |
| third class of Muslim, christians, jews, zoroastrians | "protected people" |
| library, academy, translation center | house of wisdom |
| art of beautiful handwriting | calligraphy |
| mathematician born in Baghdad | Al-Khqarizmi |
| advancement in sciences | preferred method of Muslim learning |
| everyone comes together | how Muslims scholars help preserve European culture |
| artwork, architecture, medical advances | advances in the Muslim empire |
| came from the latins who were the first settlers of Rome | Latin language |
| three groups who settled on the Italian peninsula | Latins, Etruscans, Greeks |
| classical culture | art, sculptures |
| wealthy landowners held most of the power | patricians |
| common farmers artisans and merchants made up majority of population | plebians |
| written law code | twleve tables |
| Rome and Carthage war over a series of battles 264 BC | Punic wars |
| right to vote | rights of Roman citizens |
| two officials for Rome | consuls |
| 60 BC military leader | Julius Caesar |
| a group of three rulers | Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey is the first triumvirate |
| Octavian Marc Antony Lepidus | second triumvirate |
| Roman soldiers organized into large military units | legions |
| "exalted one", Octavian | Augusta |
| "Roman peace", period of peace and prosperity | pax romana |
| agriculture | what led the Roman economy |
| structures to bring water into cities and towns | aqueducts |
| first four of the New testament | gospels |
| dispersal of the Jews | Jewish diaspora |
| Jesus growing popularity | reasons why roman rulers opposed Christianity |
| apostles | reasons why Christianity spread throughout the roman empire |
| enormous influence on Christianity | Paul |
| first bishop | peter |
| weak economy military/political turmoil | reasons for the decline of the roman empire |
| AD 284 a strong willed army leader | Diocletian |
| big population | why Diocletian divided the empire |
| man who saved Christianity | Constantine |
| fleeing from the Huns | why Germanic peoples invaded the roman empire |
| presences of Rome is still felt daily in languages, institutions, throughout the western world | legacy of the Roman empire |
| western world | who is influenced by the achievements of Rome |
| asiatic invaders, ruled egypt from 1640-1570 BC, chariots | Hyksos |
| army included archers, charioteers, and infantry, hatshepsut pharoah around 1472 BC | New Kingdom of egypt |
| 2000-1000 BC | Kush |
| were forced to retreat south to nile | what Kushites did after losing Egypt to the Assyrians |
| lay closer to the red sea than napata, active in the flourishing trade among africa, arabia, and india | Moroe |
| rose in the north same time kushite pharoah sat on egyptian throne, had a strong army due to the highly advanced military organization | Assyria |
| 600 BC, center of a new empire, nebuchadnezzar restored the city, it fell shortly after his death | Babylon |
| nebuchadnezzar had this built for his wife because she missed the flowering shrubs of her homeland | hanging gardens of babylon |
| highest building in babylon, more than 300ft high, visible for miles | 7-tiered ziggurat |
| a military genius, lead army to many victories, controlled and empire that spanned over 2000 miles, own method of governing, honored local customs and reliigons | Cyrus |
| taught that the earth was a battleground where a great struggle is fought between the spirit of good and the spirit of evil, belief in one god, Ahura Mazda, lived around 600 BC, persian prophet | Zoroaster |
| ran from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia, distance of 1677 miles | royal road |
| belief that social order, harmony, and good government could be restored in china if society were organized around 5 basic relationships between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend | confucianism |
| respect for a child's parent, and ancestor, devoting oneself to one's parents during their lifetime, honoring their memories after death through the performance of certain rituals | filial piety |
| belief that a highly efficient and powerful government was the key to restoring order in society | legalism |
| unified China at the expense of human freedom | Shi Huangdi |
| a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner | autocracy |
| poor people were forced to work on this huge defensive wall, arose on the backs of hundreds of thousands of peasants, from the yellow sea to the gobi desert | great wall of china |
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