The two technologies used by the Hittites to dominate Anatolia.
What is chariot warfare and iron metallurgy?
100
These three civilizations were the major influences on the Aegean World, 2000-1100 BCE.
What is Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Egypt?
100
Mass deportation, fear tactics/state terrorism, propaganda.
What are tactics to Assyrian rulers used to intimidate their subjects?
100
The area in which the Jews attacked a few towns and settled after being led there by Joshua.
What is Canaan?
100
The reason why Carthage ruled its empire indirectly.
What is to protect trade interests/relationships?
200
During this period, trade of this item energized the long distance international trade.
What is metal?
200
Deep, rectangular Mycenaean graves that were evidence of wealthy people in power.
What are shaft graves?
200
A large Assyrian collection of writings drawn from ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia.
What is the Library of Ashurbanipal?
200
A monumental sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon to be the religious center for Yahweh.
What is the First Temple?
200
The string of settlements in the Western Mediterranean: the North African coast from Libya to Morocco, the south and southeast coast of Spain, and the islands of Sardinia, Sicily, and Malta.
What is the Phoenician triangle?
300
The immigrant groups that came to power in Babylonia and Egypt respectively and assimilated to the native language and culture.
Who are the Kassites and the Hyksos?
300
This organization exercised a high degree of control over their economy, keeping detailed records in Linear B.
What is the Mycenaean government?
300
Where the wealth and resources of Assyrian subjects were funneled.
What is the center of the empire (so the king and elite grew rich)?
300
The first three kings of Israel, in chronological order 1st - 3rd.
Who are Saul, David, and Solomon?
300
3 Important Phoenician city states that had particular trding significance (staring with before 1000 BCE)
What are Byblos, Tyre and Carthage?
400
Two untraditional rulers of New Kingdom Egypt (and what made them untraditional).
Who are Hatshepsut (a woman pharaoh) and Akhenaten (who changed the supreme deity to Aten and invented a new, unconventional art style)?
400
Archaeological evidence that the Minoans were not warlike.
What is the absence of fortifications at palace sites and non-grandiose depictions of kings?
400
These hardy people, accustomed to dealing with raiders from the mountains, provided the foot-soldiers for the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Who are peasant farmers?
400
What the word 'Diaspora' means in Greek.
What is dispersion or scattering?
400
Urns for sacrificed children.
What are tophets?
500
The two distinct political zones of Mesopotamia by 1500 BCE.
What is Babylonia (in the south) and Assyria (in the North)?
500
What shared factor among the Late Bronze Age states of the Mediterranean and Middle East increased their vulnerability to attacks by migrating peoples, leading to a descent of the region into a Dark Age?
What is economic interdependence?
500
The Assyrians never discovered an effective method of governing such a varied and vast empire, so they frequently had to do this.
What is reconquering territory?
500
The first empire conquered Israel, and the second empire succeeded Judah. Both deported many of the subjects.
What are the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
500
Carthaginian leaders.
What is a merchant aristocracy or the Senate (which elected two yearly judges)?