Characteristics of a civilization
List 5 characteristics of a civilization
What is Advanced Cities, Organized Central Government, Complex Religion, Job specialization, Social Classes, System of Writing, Art and Architecture, and Public Works.
Why did the Egyptians call the Nile, "the gift of the Nile."
What is that they were dependent on the river for agriculture and trade. It placed Egypt at the center for World Trade
Who was the Trojan war fought by?
What is the Mycenean Greeks and Trojans.
What were the social groups in the Roman Republic?
What is the Patricians and Plebeians
T or F
The Sumerian Cities were walled.
True
What's a political civilization?
What is when there is one ruler and one government.
What were the Egyptians religiously? (Monotheistic, etc)
What is Polytheistic.
Who reforms Athens and what did he do?
What is Cleisthenes and he changed social classes into districts
What were the 12 tables and why was it made?
T or F
Sumerian Religion was monotheistic
False
What is a Cultural Civilization?
What is that it has many different independent city states and only shares the culture.
What was the middle kingdom considered?
What is "the golden age of stability"
Who led Athens during most of its Golden Age?
What is Pericles
How many consuls were there?
What is 2 consuls.
T or F
Sumerian cities were composed of city states
True
List 3 impacts of a civilization.
What is Environmental, spread of peoples and ideas, expansion and warfare, inequality and hierarchy become normalized, Emergence of coercive state.
What brought the middle kingdom to an end?
What is the invasion of the Hyksos.
What does Diaspora mean?
What is a dispersion of people into a place.
Ex: Jews into Israel.
What caused the fall of the republic?
What is the gap between the rich and the poor.
How did Sumer fall apart?
The city states were at war with each other.
Before civilizations emerged, what did they grow from?
What is nomadic bands.
What did the Egyptians gain when the new kingdom was created?
What is new war tactics. (Ex: war chariots)
What does it mean when a place a hellenistic and how was Greece?
What is a blending of cultures and it became when Alexander the Great took over a lot of places and different cultures came into contact.
What was the Roman culture derived from?
What is the greeks and the hellenistic culture. This provided Greco-Roman cultures.
What was Hammurabi's code?
A written code of laws placed all around Sumer. It was very harsh with its laws and example of this is, "an eye for an eye."