Agriculture
This is the term for the “Old Stone Age.”
Paleolithic
From around 900-600 BCE this civilization dominated Mesopotamia and beyond through the use of its military and terror tactics.
The Assyrians
What are the three main periods of Egyptian history?
Old, Middle, New
Starting with the Zhou, this concept was used to explain the rise and fall of dynasties.
The Mandate of Heaven
Following the death of King Solomon, the ancient Hebrew kingdom of Israel split in two; the southern kingdom was called this.
Judah
The adoption of agriculture and domestication of animals is sometimes referred to as _________Revolution, named after the time period in which it first happened.
Neolithic
Politically, the Sumerians were organized into these, which constantly competed with each other.
city-states
______ was the pharaoh that attempted to convert Egypt to monotheism.
Akhenaten
These two philosophies emerged from the chaos and destruction of the Eastern Zhou period.
Confucianism and Taoism
Homer’s “Akhaians,” or Greeks in the Iliad may have been a reinterpretation of this civilization.
The Mycenaeans
This is the term for nomads who domesticated herd animals and moved from place to place.
Pastoralists
This king of Babylon is famous for having created a code of laws meant to be universally followed in his kingdom.
Hammurabi
New Kingdom Egypt was much more aggressive and expansionist than it had been in the past, conquering these two neighboring areas.
Nubia and Syria-Palestine
(the Levant)
The Zhou ruled in a relatively decentralized political style known as _____.
Feudalism
What caused the bronze age collapse?
It is unknown. It could have been an economic collapse or invaders
What was one negative aspect of the agricultural revolution?
gender roles, disease, social classes....
What strategy did the Assyrians use to maintain control of their empire?
Terror, deportation, ect..
This is the Egyptian term for the divine order of the universe, which the king was supposed to maintain.
ma'at
How did the knowledge of chariots reach China?
nomadic travelers
What was Carthage's empire based on?
Trade
Controlling the flow of water was critical to raising crops, and so the development of this type of technology became important to early civilizations.
Irrigation
What does this quote reveal about ancient Mesopotamian culture?
"198. If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina.
199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. [ A tooth for a tooth ]
201. If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.
202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
203. If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina.
204. If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money."
That social class determined punishment
This is the name of the capital city of the later Nubian kingdom, which eventually fell in the 4th century CE.
Meroë
The Qin king eventually conquered all his rivals, ending the Warring States Period; he then changed his name to this, meaning “First Emperor.”
Shi Huangdi
Carthage, which became a powerful empire in the
Western Mediterranean, was originally founded
by colonists from this Phoenician city.
Tyre