Miskowicz Chapter 2 World History
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- Which civilization had ziggurats?
- Sumerians
- In which civilization is the afterlife a "cave of no return"?
- Sumerians
- Which civilization worshipped Assur, the god of war?
- Assyrians
- In which civilization was trade important?
- Phoenicians
- 2 Gods, Good and Evil
- Persians
- Ethical Monotheism
- Hebrews
- 10 Commandments and Old Testament
- Hebrews
- Polytheistic, no afterlife, human sacrifice
- Phoenecians
- Invented wheel, sail, plow, cuneiform
- Sumerians
- Sargon and Ur-Nammu
- Akkadians
- First Law Code
- Akkadians
- Code of Laws with 282 specific laws that applied to different people?
- Babylonians
- Hammurabi
- Babylonians
- Invented iron
- Hittites
- Most hated of the ancient peoples, focused mostly on war
- Assyrians
- Libraries
- Assyrians
- Ninevah, surrounded by huge wall
- Assyrians
- Assurbanipal, emperor
- Assyrians
- Calendar within minutes of todays
- New Babylonians
- Hanging Gardens
- New Babylonians
- Nebuchadnezzar
- New Babylonians
- Coined Money
- Lydians
- Cyrus, Xerxes, and Darius, tolerant rulers
- Persians
- Purple Dye, alphabet
- Phoenecians
- Solomon, David, Moses, Abraham
- Hebrews
- Which Egyptian kingdom was Narmur from?
- Old Kingdom
- 2 kingdoms of Egypt?
- Upper and Lower Egypt
- Which Egyptian age had pyramids and theocracy?
- Old
- Papyrus
- Paper made of reeds
- Hieroglyphs
- complex pictographs
- Theocracy
- Government rule based on religious authority
- Hatshepsut
- Female pharoah, New Kingdom
- Ramses II
- Treaty maker
- Thutmose III
- Warlike, expanded empire
- Empire Age of Egypt
- New Kingdom
- Valley of Kings
- Replaced pyramids, not easily broken into, "condos" for the dead
- Chariots were used in which Egyptian kingdom?
- New
- Scribes
- Men of learning who could write
- What did Herodotus want to know about the pyramids?
- How they were built
- Government of Egypt
- Theocracy
- Inundation
- Annual Predictable overflow of Nile River
- Pharoah
- Ruler of ancient Egypt, living son of Re
- Great Pyramid was built in
- Giza
- Ka
- Spiritual double, needed an intact body to recognize
- Mustaba
- Rectangular tomb for the nobles
- Necropolis
- City of the dead, contained temples and massive walls
- Who was the great pyramid built for?
- Khufu
- How big is the Great Pyramid?
- 2,000,000 blocks of stone, 13 acres
- Rosetta stone
- Translated hieroglyphics into Greek
- Embalming
- Mummification, took 70 days
- Isis
- Osiris's wife
- Themes of legend of Osiris
- Mummification, pharoah is king in afterlife
- Only group in Egypt with social mobility
- scribes
- Loess
- Yellow silt from Huang He river
- Anyang
- Capital of ancient Shang
- Mandate of Heaven
- balance between good and evil, must be kept or emperor gets thrown out
- Mhat
- balance between good and evil, must be kept or emperor gets thrown out
- Feudalism
- King gives land and peasant to lords in exchange for military service
- What was unique about ancient Chinese writing?
- No correlation between written and spoken language, each character stood for a syllable
- Dynastic Cycle
- Pattern of rise and fall of dynasties
- Role of family
- Elders were respected, women were inferior
- Oracle bones
- tortoise shells with messages written on them
- Ancestor Worship
- belief that ancestors provide and guide a family; ancestors were given gifts
- Which civilization invented crossbows?
- The Chinese
- Which civilization had advanced metalworking?
- The Chinese
- Planned Gridlike Cities were found in what civ?
- Ancient India
- Shiva
- Major Hindu god
- Sophisticated plumbing was in which civ?
- Ancient India
- Indus and Ganges rivers in which area?
- India
- Thriving trade with gold, semiprecious stones, silver, and cotton in which civilization?
- Ancient India
- Monsoon
- Winds, blew rain in huge amounts, caused unpredictable floods
- Wu-Ding
- 13th century BC Chinese king
- Foo-now
- Wife of Wu-Ding, female general
- Which group of people in ancient Chinese civ were drunks and alcoholics?
- Aristocrats and kings
- Was the great wall of China solid rock?
- No, 2 walls with dirt and dead bodies in between
- Torture
- the way the Chinese kept people in line
- Psychological warfare
- sending convicts to the front lines to commit suicide in front of the enemy to freak 'em out
- Passports were inventedy by which civ?
- The Chinese
- How was flooding in ancient China curbed?
- Dams, canals, locks