Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
Floods twice a year predictably
What is the Nile?
These people colonized from North Africa to Spain with Carthage being the most powerful city state later
Who is the Phoenicians?
These people wrote in Linear A and lived on Crete. These people had citadels and were Proto-Greek.
Who were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
Identify the source, author, and author's background
"A fisherman was gathering his net, and it happened that it was full of a diversity of fish. Although the small fish escaped from the porous bottom of the net, the large fish were brought into the floating boat. By all means to be small is both a saving and a badness, but whosoever you perceive with a great reputation seldom escapes danger."
What is Aesop's Fables by Aesop who was a slave watching rich families kids?
Flooded unpredictably, one flooeded fast while the other was slow and wide
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
The pharaoh's one job, means "cosmic order"
What is Ma'at?
Derogatory Egyptian term, means "wanderers"
What is Hapiru?
This event starts the Archaic Period for Greece, all were welcomed besides women
What is the Olympics?
Identify the source, author, and author's background
"Thy words are naught to me. Cease not to call Jason basest of men; but for those words thou hast spoken against our rulers, count it all gain that exile is thy only punishment. I ever tried to check the outbursts of the angry monarch, and would have had thee stay, but thou wouldst not forego thy silly rage, always reviling our rulers, and so thou wilt be banished. Yet even after all this I weary not of my goodwill, but am come with thus much forethought, lady, that thou mayst not be destitute nor want for aught, when, with thy sons, thou art cast out. Many an evil doth exile bring in its train with it; for even though thou hatest me, never will I harbour hard thoughts of thee."
What is the Medea by Euripides who was not a popular writer in Athens?
These people were Indo-European and kept their technology secret for 100 years
Who were the Hittites?
These two reunite Egypt in 1532 BCE, second half of name means "who is beneficial to god"
Who is Kamose and Ahmose?
In 539 BCE, gets listed as Messiah and rebuilds the Temple
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This event ended the Archaic period and lead the Greeks to their Classical period, allowed for Athens to become a world power
What is the Persian Wars?
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'"Then, again, our military training is in many respects superior to that of our adversaries. Our city is thrown open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner or prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face. And here is the proof...'
What is Pericles' Funeral Oration by Thucydides who was an Athenian general ostracized from Athens living in Sparta?
Means "head man," warrior elite class
What is a Lugal?
This Pharaoh created the first diplomatic treaty with the Hitties after a battle at Gadesh
Who is Ramses II?
This was adpoted by the Greeks and later the Etruscans to the Romans and then to us
What is the phonetic alphabet?
What is re-organzing the demos into 10 trubes, Attica into 3 geographical locations, and creating the council of 500?
Identify the source, author, and author's background
"We lit a fire, killed a beast and made offerings, took some cheeses just for ourselves, and when we had eaten, sat down in the cave to await his arrival. At last he came up, shepherding his flocks and carrying a huge bundle of dry wood to burn at supper-time. With a great din he cast this down inside the cavern, giving us such a fright that we hastily retreated to an inner recess."
What is the Odyssey by Homer who was writing after a dark age fell?
Wrtings from Uruk that gives us insight into the afterlife
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Who are the Hyksos?
Built the first Temple, made it so only God will listen in the Temple
Who is Solomon?
After Alexander's death, three kingdoms took his lands. List the kingdoms and a fact about them.
What is the Antigonid (small), the Selucid (largest but shrinking constantly), and Ptolemaic Egypt (longest lasting)?
Identify the source, author, author's background, and purpose
"Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few..."
What is Pericles' Funeral Oration by Thucydides who was an Athenian general ostracized from Athens living in Sparta? What is the purpose of continuing to fight Sparta?