Early Civilizations
This ancient town came into existence 9,000 years ago and is the present day country of Turkey.
What is Çatalhöyük?
In 1900 B.C.E. which nomadic culture had established trade networks that stretched across Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
These enslaved people worked the land that was parceled out to the Spartiates.
Who are the helots?
What period was this archaeological culture established in Mesopotamia/Sumer?
His father grew up as a young boy in Thebes.
____________ is where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers.
The conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans in 431 B.C.E. is known as ____________.
This was driven by the fusion of Greek and Egyptian science, the increased communication and trade afforded by the common Greek language, and the competition among patrons of science.
_________'s book The Anabasis, provided Alexander the Great with information about expeditions to different empires.
Who is Xenophon's?
What early civilization set of laws were engraved in cuneiform inscriptions are on an eight-column made of basalt.
The Athenian historian that wrote his own account of the Peloponnesian War and can be attributed as a father of history.
All Greek temples sought to create a new style of architecture, but the ___________ built in 447 and 438 B.C.E. is considered the finest of the all.
The transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.
Name the three Hellenistic kingdoms.
What is Ptolemaic , Seleucid, Antigonid?
The Greeks referred to this as the land ''between two rivers" and was the civilization settled by the Ubaid peoples.
What is Mesopotamia
During his reign, ___________ changed his name to mean "He Who Is Profitable to the Aten."
Name the two most common philosophers who are said to have been "corrupting the youth" and the father of Western philosophy.
What place rose to power and subdued the Greeks due to the leadership of Philip II (and later Alexander) and the disunity of the Greek poleis.
An epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving work of literature.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
The ruler who declared himself "the Shepard of the people, the capable king."
Greek historian that traveled the Africa coast, Thrace, Macedonia, and marveled at the pyramids of Giza.
Who is Herodotus?
When civilizations first established a far-ranging trade network.
_____________ was characterized by cultural fusion (mingling of Greek and Eastern influences).