PHOENICIANS
VOCAB
ASSYRIANS
PERSIANS
VOCAB
100
TRADE GOOD THE PHOENICIANS WERE MOST KNOWN FOR
A. Vases
B. Purple Dye
C. Spears
D. Calvary
What is Purple Dye?
100
*****What was tribute?
A. an offering made to the gods
B. a payment made from the government to a fallen soldier's family
C. a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power
D. an allowance from the government to farmers
C. a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power
100
Greatest achievement of the Assyrian Empire?
A. Giant Library
B. Invention of math
C. Fire
D. Wheel
What is the 20,000 tablet Library of Nineveh?
100
Modern day country where the Persian Empire was founded
What is Iran?
100
***The goods made and shipped by Phoenicians to other lands are called ?
A. tribute
B. resources
C. exports
D. imports
C. exports
200
Trade colony of the Phoneticians that eventually dominated trade in the Mediterranean Sea
A. Carthage
B. Rome
C. Greece
D. India
What is Carthage?
200
****Who were the Immortals?
A. a group of gods worshiped by the Assyrians
B. a group of gods worshiped by the Persians
C. Assyrian soldiers who died in battle
D. an elite group of the Persian standing army
D. an elite group of the Persian standing army
200
Name ONE of the military advances the Assyrians utilized
What is
1. copper helmets
2. metal armor,
3. leather protection
4. iron weapons
5. Calvary
200
Founder of the Persian Empire
A. Cyrus The Great
B. King Tut
C. Virgil
D. Hammurabi
Who is Cyrus the Great?
200
***An area ruled by a distant country is called
A. an ally
B. a city-state
C. a colony
D. an empire.
C. a colony
300
Region of the world where the Phoenicians first appeared. (Modern Name)
A. Iraq
B. Lebanon
C. India
D. East Africa
What is Canaan or Lebanon?
300
***A cavalry is made up of
A. professional soldiers.
B. soldiers who use iron weapons.
C. soldiers who march on foot.
D. soldiers who ride horses.
D. soldiers who ride horses.
300
Capital of Assyrian empire
What is Nineveh?
300
Person who overthrew the Persian emperor to restore order and stability to the empire
Who is Darius?
300
Why were the Phoenicians able to spread their culture over a wide area?
A. Phoenician armies imposed Phoenician culture throughout the region.
B. Phoenicia had many natural resources that were desirable to other countries.
C. The Phoenician cavalry could cover more ground faster than foot soldiers.
D. Phoenician sailors traded with other cities in the Mediterranean region.
D. Phoenician sailors traded with other cities in the Mediterranean region.
400
Reason the Phoenicians became sea traders ?
1. Too much land to farm
2. Not enough land to farm
3. They were gatherers
4. The Priests told them to
What is lack of farmland / availability of nearby cedar forests?
400
****How did Darius govern over the vast Persian Empire?
A. He divided the empire into provinces and appointed a leader for each province.
B. He banned local customs and imposed Persian ways on all people
C. He created a uniform set of laws that applied to each of his territories.
D. He traveled from province to province to oversee government personally.
A. He divided the empire into provinces and appointed a leader for each province.
400
What is money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins.
Currency
400
A permanent army of professional soldiers is called
a S________ A____ ?
Standing Army
400
In the Phoenician alphabet, symbols were used to represent?
A. sounds
B. syllables
C. ideas
D. pictographs.
A. sounds
500
Greatest legacy of the Phoenician civilization ?
1. Camel Domestication
2. Alphabet
3. Wheel
4. Fire
What is the alphabet?
500
What is a stele?
****A. a cylinder seal
B. a colorful decorative tile
C. a carved stone slab or pillar
D. a temple on top of a ziggurat
A. a cylinder seal
500
To make better, improve (Vocab)
A. Inform
B. Reform
C. Misinform
D. Retribution
B. Reform
500
Very, very good, representing the best of the best
(Vocab Word)
Elite
500
Which city was originally a Phoenician colony?
A. Rome
B. Ur
C. Carthage
D. Sumer
C. Carthage