Janke Western Civ September Test
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- Assyrians conquered all of the Middle East except for...
- Judah of Isreal
- Ramses II
- leader of Egypt; fought Hittites but ended up signing world's first peace treaty
- King Cyrus
- first king of persia
- King Darius accomplished...
- conquered Egypt, started conflict with Greeks
- Most Common Language of Indo-Europeans
- German
- Assyrians adopted _?_ from Mesopotamia?
- Gods, religion, customs
- King Cyrus accomplished...
- conquered Medes, Mesopotamia, and Israel
- Hanging gardens of Babylon
- Nebuchadnezzar built for his lover; imported trees and dirt from Medes; brought animals from Asia
- Hebrews lead by...
- Abraham
- Ur-Nammu
- First written law code
- Hatshepsut
- powerful female leader of the 18th dynasty of Egypt
- Assyrian first city
- Ashur
- Phoenicians came from...
- North Africa and mesopotamia
- Exodus
- hebrews go back to Israel
- King Darius
- greatest king of persia
- Assyrians adopted culture from:
- Hittites and Mesopotamia
- Who defeated the Second King Darius?
- Alexander the Great (331 BCE)
- Thutmose III
- Egypt's greatest military leader and expanded land
- Hitties destroyed...
- babyloanians
- Hammurabi
- Leader of Babylon who created the famous Hammurabi laws
- Why couldn't Judah get conquered?
- Because of the wailing wall
- King David
- United 12 tribes and made Jerusalem Israel's capitol
- Phoenicians produced...
- Purple from special snail
- World's First Library
- 22,000 clay tablets; Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians created it
- Immortals
- 10,000 best trained Persian soldiers; named Immortals because when any of them died, they were instantly replaced
- Phoenicians
- lived along coast and created a sea trading post
- 586 BCE in Israel
- Judea fell to the Chaldeans
- First to built network of roads:
- Assyrians
- Assyrians
- Semitic Nomads - 2500 BCE
- King Solomon
- Heavy taxes; when he dies, 12 tribes split
- Assyrians gave cities a choice:
- Surrender or die
- Chaldeans
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon and conquered Assyrains with help of Medes
- Zoroaster
- preached about a new religion similar to judaism
- First Hebrew King
- Saul
- Nebuchadnezzar
- powerful king of babylon, he caputred and distroyed jerusalem and exiled the israelites to babylonia
- Descendants of Hammurabi
- Chaldeans
- 722 BCE in Israel
- Assyrians conquered Israel - 10 lost tribes of Israel
- Hebrews came from...
- Sumer
- Assyrians adopted _?_ from the Hittites?
- War and iron
- Assyrian Languages:
- Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic
- Hatshepsut accomplished...
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- Dorians
- conquered Hittites; technically not a civilization; defeated Greece
- Ashurbanipal
- Greatest king of Assyrian empire; world's first library
- Persians
- Indo-Europeans from India; brown hair; brown skin; brown eyes
- Satrapies
- seperate cities set up by Persia; alllowed countries to have their own states but still had to pay a tax
- Persepolis
- great persian city; built to rival Babylon as greatest city
- Hittite Kingdom
- 1,650 BCE; Indo-Europeans; masters of iron