World History Chapter 2 Flashcards
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What geographic feature had the largest impact on Egyptian culture and prosperity?
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Nile River
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Settled agriculture developed first in Sumeria because of what particular natural feature?
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Rivers that brought new soil with floods
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The Sumerian mathematical system was based on units of 60,10, and 6 and survives in what modern system?
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Time Measurement
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The most important source of our knowledge of ancient Jews has been?
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The Hebrew Bible
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Hammurabi's code was designed to
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Regulate the relationships among his people and promote their welfare
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Who worked the land owned by the king, nobles, or temples in ancient Sumeria?
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Client Farmers and slaves
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In 1300 BCE the Hitites and Egypitans formed an alliance that promoted trade and was joined by what other state?
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Babylonia
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Which of the following best describes a ziggurat-style temple?
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Stepped pyramid
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Two characteristics that made Cyrus a remarkable warrior-king were his concept of empire and his
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benevolence and humanity as a ruler
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The pharaoh was responsible for integrating
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gods and humans
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In addition to papyrus, Egyptian heiroglyphs were
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written on walls
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In general, how did residents of ancient cities tend to view residents of rural areas?
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City dwellers viewed themselves as more sophisticated
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Taxation in Sumeria probably began as a system for supporting what feature?
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Temples
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One of the earliest gods worshipped by the Egyptians was Amon, god of
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the sky
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At what point did slavery become widespread in Egypt?
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New Kingdom
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Ancient Egyptians believed that which pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom?
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Menes
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The Hebrew leader who captured the city of Jerusalem was
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David
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One of Cyrus the Great's goals in forming the Persian Empire was to protect eastern Iran from
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nomadic invaders
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Where in the city did Sumeria build their large ziggurat temples?
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In the center of the city
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The Hebrews created a monarchy with Saul by fighting what other Palestinian people in the eleventh century BCE?
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Philistines
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Egyptians believed that what, or who, controlled the rise and fall of the Nile?
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Pharaoh
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What city became the capital of Sargon's empire?
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Akkad
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The destruction of the Assyrian Empire paved the way for the emergence of...
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The Persian Empire
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In the Egyptian religious system, who killed the god Osiris?
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Seth, His brother
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The term "history" comes from what early writer?
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Herodotus
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During the babylonian Captivity, the hebrew religion...
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was redefined
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Early states used what method to control their populace?
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Threats of violence
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In Sumeria the people who were "clients" were
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free people who were dependent on nobles
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How did Herodotus share his written history of the Greek-Persian wars?
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It was recited orally
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The Assyrians
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were one of the most warlike people in history
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In ancient Israel, the education of children
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was the responsibility of both mothers and fathers
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Ahuramazda and Angra Mainyu
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represented good and evil
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Hammurabi secured Babylon's cultural power through
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his success in making Marduk, the god of Babylon, sovereign to all other gods
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In mespotamia, what material was used for writing?
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Soft Clay
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The frist states that historians know of were developed in what region?
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Mesopotamia
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In hammurabi's law code, who controlled a woman's dowry when she married?
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She did
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The new kingdom was maredly different from the previous Middle and Old kingdoms by focusing more attention on
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conquest
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To rival the power of the temples, miltary leaders who became kings began to build what kinds of structures?
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palaces
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The phoenician's greatest cultural achievement was the
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created of a phonetic alphabet
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Afer Solomon's death, the Hebrew kingdom
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was largely destroyed by an internal power struggle
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Zoroaster taught that
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people possessed free will and were accountable for their own actions
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A contribution of the Hyksos to Egyptian society was through
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the making of bronze
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The earliest Sumerian writings
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were pictographs in which each sign pictured an object
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Hittites were different from the peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt because of
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their use of iron weapons and an indo-european language
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Although reasons for writing changed over time, Sumerian scribes were first trained mainly to
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property and wealth records
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How does papyrus compare to clay tablets as a writing material?
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It is more fragile and less likely to survive
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The first rulers of Sumerian city-states such as Ur ad Uruk were
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priests
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The name Phoenician is a Greek term derived from the Phoenician
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purple textiles
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Where did Sumerian scribes learn the cuneiform writing system?
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scribal schools
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Akhenaten's interest in monotheism failed in Egypt because
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it was imposed on people and enforced by intolerance
