The Rise of Bronze Age Civilizations
The Years 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE span what age?
The Bronze Age
The Mycenean Empire (Mycenae) was in what region?
Greece/Aegean
What do these names have in common: Ra, Anubis, Horus, Osiris
They are Egyptian gods
Judaism is the first major monotheistic religion in recorded history. What does this mean? How is it different from polytheistic religions?
Jews believe in one god. Prior to Judaism, belief systems/religions believed in many gods.
This and wood were the main 2 exports of Mycenae to the rest of Anatolia.
Olive Oil
Greek Anatolia refers to Greece as well as what region?
Asia Minor / Middle East
This Group of people lived on Crete and flourished around 2700 BC, until a volcanic erruption wiped out their infrastructure. Allowing the Mycenians to become the dominant power in the region.
The Minoans
While Mesopatamia was the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, Egypt settled around which river?
the Nile
This group of people/tribes were for the most part polytheistic, however each would have 1 god they held above the rest. 2 of these tribes included the Israelites and the kingdom of judah, who each had the same major god of Yahweh.
The Canaanites
What substance became extremely rare after almost all of the mines in the known world were depleted, contributing heavy to the bronze age collapse?
Tin
This was the first empire, formed under Sargon of Akkad. It lasted from 2334 BC to 2154 BC, until it eventually became the first of many empires in recorded history, to be sacked by barbarians.
Akkadian Empire
This man came to power in the between 1792 bc and 1750 bc in the mesopatamian region. HE grew the babylonian empire spanning from Elam to Yamhad. He also created the first written law in recorded history (Hint: its known as a code).
Hammurabi
Why is king tut famous?
He is one of the few, and was the first, Pharoah whos tomb was found undisturbed. Offering us new incites into mummification and the egyptian afterlife.
After the Assyrians invaded, the Israelites fled to the kingdom of Judah, the other Canaanite tribe the most similar to them. They eventually would come to only worship Yahweh, becoming the early Jews. However, the Babylonians would later invade, destroying the temple of Yahweh and enslaving the jews. These people later invaded, overthrew babylon, and as a biproduct allowed the Jews to return home, rebuild their temple, and live as they please. At least for some time.
The Persians
As tin mines began running dry in the Greater Greek Anatolian regions, Eastern Asia (mostly unknown at that time) and this place were the only significant Tin mines left. Many Brave traders and sailors took to the sea and sailed all the way to this place to trade for Tin and sell it back home. Those who made it there and back became rich. However many didn't return. What place is this?
England / London / Great Britain
Later becoming part of Babylon and eventually Mesopotamia, This early bronze age civilization faught in the first war, were absorbed by the Akkadiadian empire, were then ruled by the guitians (who over threw the Akkadian empire), and then overthrew the guitians not long after.
Sumer
What is the name of Hammurabi's law system? Known for "And eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
Aside from bronze armor and weapons, the bronze age battlefield is most known for what technology? Often called the bronze age version of a tank, the Egyptians were masters of riding these into battle. Often with both an archer/spear thrower and well as a soldier who would dismount and defend the it.
Hint: The Sea Peoples took away their dominance, by literally just swarming them with a lot of warriors at once.
The Chariot
This man took over after Moses (although the means of this transfer of power are called into question). He was succeeded by King David, the giant slayer.
Joshua
The Sea Peoples
The Neo Sumers grew to be an empire spanning farther than the akkadian empire, based out of their capital UR. They became wary of this barbaric group of mountain people off the southern border of the part of their empire known as "Mari." Their solution? Build a wall! This ultimately failed. What was the name of those barbarians?
The Amorites
Around 1595 BC, these people sacked the assyrians and the Babylonian Empire. They had no interest in land, robbing the regions of so much wealth that after they left, the empires simply collapsed.
The Hatti / Hittites
Before the old kingdom of egypt formed, later becomming the middle and eventually the new egyption kingdom (empire), egypt was split into 2 regions. This was ____ and ____ Egypt
Upper and Lower
What is the term used for the scattering of the Jewish peoples who fled after invasions of the Babylonians? As well as after multiple genocides/ attempts to wipe them out. Leading to the spread of the Jewish religion all over the world quicker than most other religions in history.
The Diaspora
The first war in recorded history was fought between Sumer and this early civilization, which outlived almost every other power in the region, well beyond the bronze age.
Elam