World history: Africa
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- Basic religion of the earliest Egyptians?
- Polytheistic
- Zoroastrianism?
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-Boldly rejected polytheism
-Formed basis of Persian bible
-1 God (Ahura Mazda)
-Christianity and Islam evolved from it - Which civilization including Zororaster?
- Persia
- Which civilization wasHammurabi from, and what was important about him?
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-Babylon
-First set of written code of ethics/book of laws -
"An eye for an eye, _________" ?
Who said it? -
-a tooth for a tooth
-Hammurabi's code - What were griots?
- Oral historians in west Africa
- Who built the step pyramids of Saqqara?
- Djoser
- Who built the Great Pyramids of Giza, and during what age of Egypt?
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-Khufu
-Old Egypt - Ramses II?
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-New Age of Egypt
-Most powerful pharaoh ever - Epic of Gilgamesh-which civilization?
- Sumeria
- What was the Epic of Gilgamesh about?
- It reflected the pessimistic emphasis on human mortality
- Cuneiform- what was it, and what civilization?
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-A system of writing
-Sumeria - The Fertile Crescent: what was it?(Also where, and what else was it known as?)
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-The land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
-Africa
-Mesopatamia - Ziggurats?
- Form of architecture in Sumeria
- Satraps?
- Persian city-state governors
- Ziggurats were what specifically?
- Temples
- Darius was who, from what civilization?
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-Emperor with policy of tolerance
-Persia - Describe the Assyrians.
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They were warriors and conquerors.
(The most feared warriors in history.)
-King Assurbanipal
Used cruelty and violence to control their conquered peoples.
Advanced war technology. - Describe the Persians.
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The largest empire of the ancient world- stimulated cultural exchange.
Emperor Darius had a policy of tolerance, quite unlike the Assyrians.
-Zoroastrianism
-King Cyrus - What was important about the Phoenicians?
- They developed the first alphabet, with letters that represented spoken sounds. (PHONICS...?)
- Nubia aka ____
- Kush
- Describe Nubia/Kush.
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-Fighting and trade with Egypt
-Conquested Egypt in 750 BC
-Conquered by invading Assyrians a century later
-Overrun by Axum in 350 AD - Where was Nubia/Kush located?
- On the Nile
- What was significant about the flooding of the Nile?
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Everything was dependent on the Nile.
Flooding destroyed but also irrigated crops. Blessing/curse. - Where in Africa was Carthage?
- Northern Africa
- Describe West Africa.
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-Ghana's gold
-Timbuktu
-Emperor Mansa Musa
-Songhai
-Sonni Ali
-Askia Muhammad's Muslim dynasty - Describe the kingdoms of East Africa.
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Axum:
-King Ezana spread Christianity to Ethiopia
-Overran Nubia/Kush
-Great Zimbabwe - Name all of the African civilizations.
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Sumer
Persia
Phoenicia
Assyria
Aryan
Nubia
Babylon
Axum - Bantu?
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-A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of central and southern Africa.
-A group of over 400 closely related languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa - What was important about Zimbabwe?
- Their use of stone
- Where was Sumer located?
- A small strip north of Persian gulf (in 3200 BC)
- What religion was Axum?
- Christian