Lesson #6
Nomads often trained to fire bows and arrows on the move from this type of mount.
What is a horse/horseback?
This term means extra food and was critical to the survival of early farmers in winter and times of emergency.
What is surplus?
This god was the favorite and received extra sacrifices in exchange for protecting the community.
What is a patron god?
This is the ability to control the behavior of others.
What is power?
This man was the ill-fated King of Lydia until he lost his power to the King of Persia.
This word means that a group of people moves around all the time, like many hunter-gatherers do.
What is nomadic?
These were the two most common building materials for homes in early villages.
What are mud and wood?
What are artisans?
This term is used for land controlled by a king, consisting of a city and the farmland around the city.
What is a city-state?
This is the name of the temple where people asked the god Apollo for advice, even if the recipients didn't understand the God's predictions.
What is the Oracle at Delphi?
This is the preferred weapon of herders defending their flock of animals from predators and raiders.
What is the sling?
This term means that a family or community was run by men.
What is patriarchal?
This is also known as getting "payback."
What is retaliation?
This is the term for the unofficial leader of a community.
What is a big man?
This man was the King of Media and the grandfather of Cyrus.
a) Alyattes
b) Astyages
c) Cambyses
Who is Astyages?
These are the three types of Farming in the Ancient World.
What are Dryland, Irrigation, and Floodplain?
Spirits of dead ancestors were worshipped and respected because they usually were buried here.
Where is near/under the home?
This term means that people believed in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
This term comes from the Greek word meaning, "power of one" and is the type of government where a king or queen rules.
What is a monarchy?
What is see the Queen without her clothes?
This is a combination of river mud and organic materials brought by a river flood and known to make farms extremely fertile.
What is silt.
This was a gift of wealth from the father of the bride to the new husband to pay for the burden of her expenses.
What is a dowry?
These were the four most common trade goods in the Ancient World.
What are grain, lumber, olive oil, and wine?
This is the term for a person who has a special connection to the spirit world and can speak to dead ancestors.
What is a Shaman?
This man saved Cyrus twice, once as a baby, and once when he was about to attack the Lydians at Sardis.
Who is Harpagus?