Writing
A script in which the letters represent each sound in a spoken word.
What is an alphabet?
A series of wars spanning 431 BCE to 404 BCE in which Athens and Sparta fought one another for control over all of Greece.
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
The urban center of an ancient Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
The famous Minoan fresco which was excavated at the ruined palace complex of Knossos, Crete.
A form of writing in which each letter stands for a consonant and not a vowel.
What is an abjad script?
A block of spearmen standing shoulder to shoulder in lines that are several ranks deep.
What is a Hoplite Phalanx?
A subsistence livelihood in which nomadic societies graze livestock on poor rangeland.
What is pastoralism?
The Egyptian relief art which depicts the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3,200 BCE.
What is the Narmer Palette?
A system of writing in which symbols are used to represent the syllables of words.
What is syllabic script?
The founder of the Persian Empire, who ended the Babylonian Exile by conquering Mesopotamia.
Cyrus the Great
A situation in which a person is subjected to slavery to pay off a debt.
What is debt bondage?
The first known city on Earth.
What is Jericho?
A system of logographic writing which was invented in Mesopotamia around 3,500 BCE.
What is cuneiform?
A confederacy of naval invaders who attacked coastal towns and cities throughout the eastern Mediterranean Sea from 1,267 BCE to 1,178 BCE.
What are the Sea Peoples?
A political institution that successfully claims a monopoly on violence within a given territory?
What is the state?
The world's first religious site which was built in Turkey around 9,000 BCE.
What is Gobekli Tepe?
A system of writing in which symbols represent entire words without relating to pronunciation.
What is logographic speech?
A class of people who made their living by hiring themselves out for various services, usually as mercenaries, during the late Bronze Age.
What were the Habiru?
The process by which large numbers of people become concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is urbanization?
The medium on which Hammurabi's Code was inscribed.
What is a stele?