Myc/Min
When did the Mycenaean's begin to collapse?
13th Century BCE
12 th Century BCE
11th Century BCE
13th Century BCE
The Kassites were people from the ________ Mountains who took over Babylonia.
Alps
Zagros
Hindu Kush
Zagros
The Persians defeated their neighbors -- the Kingdom of ______.
Elam
Lydia
Syria
Lydia
By 1900 BCE the Assyrians began to organize an extensive trade network between Mesopotamia and ________________.
Babylonia
Akkad
Anatolia
Anatolia
What year did the Hittites settle in Anatolia?
2000 BCE
1900 BCE
1800 BCE
2000 BCE
What triggered the Myc. Collapse? ( list one)
natural disaster
famine
drought
disease
social unrest
Spoke a Semitic Akkadian Language
Kassites or Mittani
Kassites
Who was the first King of Persia that overthrew the Medes?
Cyrus
Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus
First to use _____ weapons
Iron
Hattusilius was the founder of the Hittite Old Kingdom.
T of F
True
The Minonian Civilization is sometimes referred as " The Palace Age"
T or F
True
List on thing the Mittani introduced into Near Eastern Warfare?
Lighter horse-drawn chariots
spokedwheels
Cavalry
What Persian attempted to conquer Greece after his father was unable to do it and was forced to retreat?
Xerxes
Cyrus
Xerxes
Assyrias supreme god was Assur although they were polytheistic.
True
What gave the Hittites speed and striking power on the battlefield?
Chariots
What did the Minonians depend on?
Overseas trade
The Mittani were people of the Lower Euphrates who established themselves as a ruling class.
T or F
False, Upper
The Persian Empire was enormous - spanning from modern day Iran to Egypt and parts of Greece
T or F
T
The Assyrian Kings had ______ to collect taxes, etc.
Governors
Attacks by outside groups did not lead to the decline of the Hittite Empire.
False
Linear B was deciphered in the 1950s. T or F
True
In what century did the Mittani Collapse?
14th C BCE
12th C BCE
10th C BCE
14th C BCE
The Persians practiced;
Buddhism
Hinduism
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism
The Assyrians lived in _______ Mesopotamia.
Northern
Hittites spoke what language.
Canannite
Semitic
Indo-European
Indo- European