Ancient Egypt
The rulers of Ancient Egypt. They were both kings and considered by believers to be demi-gods. Ancient Egypt was both a monarchy and a theocracy.
Pharaohs
Tell me at least two things about the Neo-Assyrian empire:
An Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 609 BC, and became the largest empire of the world up until that time.” They are remembered for having a ruthless army that defeated many other civilizations.
Starting with the _______ __________ Empire in around 550BCE this term refers to the area in and around what is now Iran.
Persian Achaemenid
Who was the next king of kings after Cyrus the Great? What can you tell me about him?
Cambyses:
A son of Cyrus the Great who took the throne after his father’s death and conquered Egypt. He died after ruling for only five years. There are great stories about brutal things he did to the Egyptians… but they might not be true.
What is cuneiform?
Writing technique using wet clay and a "stylus" (type of stick) to make indentations. Created in ancient Sumer and still in use by the Persian Achaemenids around 3,000 years later.
Husband to Nefertiti, he believed in only the sun god. The priests of all the other Egyptian deities were not happy with this.
Akhenaten
...remembered as the last great king of Assyria.” He is remembered for both his brutality and his quest for knowledge. He actually saved many ancient documents from Sumer and Babylon that we still have today because of his efforts.
Ashurbanipal
Starting with the conquests of _____ ___ _____, the Persians conquered many lands ruling over all of The Middle East and parts of Egypt and North Africa… and even sub-Saharan Africa.
Cyrus the Great
Who took over after Cambyses' death?
Darius the Great. . . Or maybe Cambyses' brother (Bardia aka Smerdis)... or maybe a "magi" pertending to be Bardia...
Rule of a place by (a) religious leader/s.
Theocracy
A black granite stone that contains a decree from people supporting a Pharaoh. Because it contains two types of Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Greek it allowed experts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
What is a reason that the Neo Assyrian Empire was so successful at conquering others and keeping them under Assyrian control?
Brutal warfare
strong army
advanced military technology
Slavery (widespread)
Forcing people to leave their homes
Tell me at least two important things about Cyrus:
he first really important ruler of the Persian Achaemenids. He conquered many cities around the middle east and is remembered as being a fair and just ruler.
Tell me about Darius the Great:
Took power from either one of Cyrus’s sons OR an imposter. He then married women from Cyrus’s family and carved a wild story on the side of a mountain in cuneiform about how he became King of Kings. He ruled for around 36 years during which time the Persian empire was very successful. He was known as the "shopkeeper".
Who/what is the greatest TikTok personality/channel and why?
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Became perhaps the most powerful female Pharaoh. When her husband died, she took over instead of her step-son. Many of her statues/carvings were destroyed after her rule.
Hatshepsut
Revolt
Return to their homelands
These were buried around the ancient Persian’s empire and contained cuneiform writing about how Cyrus the Great was an excellent and kind-hearted ruler. Some say it is the first written document that gives people “human rights”.
The Cyrus Cylinder
Son of Darius and the next King of Kings. He is famous for losing during the attempted invasion of Greece. The Persians would never conquer all of Greece.
Xerxes
Who is the greatest Youtuber of all time ... and why?
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Give me at least two reasons for why Ancient Egyptian rule and culture finally collapsed after thousands of years:
It finally collapsed due to invasions, foreign rule, drought, and civil wars. Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and finally Romans (others would follow) all took control of Egypt slowly replacing ancient Egyptian culture and values.
What is at least one major reason that Assyriologists believe the empire collapsed?
Many experts believe that their empire simply became too large to control. While the Assyrian army was probably the fiercest in the world, with weak leadership and fighting more than one war at the same time, Nimrud and Nineveh (their great cities) were conquered and eventually abandoned. It is likely that the slaves eventually revolted.
-much less slavery
-religious freedom
-would eventually become larger
Tell me at least three reasons for why the Persian Achemenid empire was eventually conquered in the year 330 BCE (just around two hundred years after the death of Cyrus)
-Weak leaders
-Empire was too spread out
-Greek invasions
-Revolts around the empire (Syria)
-Alexander the Great (kind of Greek) conquers
Tell me about Alexander the Great (at least three facts)
A Macedonian Greek leader who became one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen. He was able to take over the entire Persian Achaemenid Empire in the 330s BCE. However, when he died the whole empire broke up into many smaller, warring states.