ACDEC SS Demicards IV
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- It is believed that Gudea appointed ___ as military gv of Ur
- Ur-Nammu
- Who founded Megara?
- Dorian Greeks
- Carthage expanded its empire to include what territories
- Spain, Baleares, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily
- Writers during the Silver Age of Roman lit:
- Tacictus, Petronius, Seneca
- Most significant act attributed to Menes
- setting up capital at Memphis
- In which battle did the Boeotians defeat the invading Athenians?
- Delium
- Who did Darius defeat to take the Persian throne?
- Gaumata
- Which event broke Egypt's hold on the Levant?
- Political realignment, conflict w/Mittani
- Capital of Epirus?
- Ambracia
- Which event marked the ultimate demise of the Kassite Dynasty?
- Elamite invasion in 1050 BC that sacked Babylon and carried off the Code to Susa
- Death of this king in 1550 BC led to the demise of the 17th dynasty
- Kamose`
- T/F: Ahmose finished many cult temples
- F
- Greek colonization was caused by what?
- Drought and famine
- Which greek historian classified the Bronze Age as a "cyclical alternation between periods of expansion...and contraction?"
- Oliver Dickinson
- Why did the Kings of Isin fail?
- Amorite invaders in the Fertile Crescent
- The constitutional perogatives of the patricians were known as what?
- patrium auctoritas
- This ethnic group had settlements in Mesopotamia, Syria, Akkad, and Ur during the 3000s BC
- Hurrians
- Neb's 2 front campaign was against which 2 kings?
- Necho II (Egypt) and Jehoiakim (Judah)
- Who did Rome drive out from Greece in the Syrian War?
- Antiochus III
- Why did Spartan king Cleomenes I invade Attica in 510 BC?
- prevent a rumored alliance between Hippias and Darius
- Pericles became leader of Athens after which 2 major political events
- Cimon's ostracism, Ephialtes' assassination
- Why did Sulla's march against Marius cost him many supporters?
- disapproved of his tactics, which included murder
- Egyptian culture and economy grew/shrunk during the 1st intermediate period
- grew
- This ziggurat was known as "The House of the Frontier between Heaven and Earth?"
- Etemenanki
- How did Petrie's system work?
- determined dates of events through artifacts
- What happened to Kassite during the reign of Kashtiliash IV
- lost power and became vassals of the Assyrians for 7 yrs
- In what 3 ways did the 2nd dynasty increase power?
- centralized the gvt, got $ from tax and trae, promoted belief in the god-king
- How did Crassus die?
- unsuccessful campaign against the Parthians
- How do historians know the extent of Mycenean trade at its peak?
- discovery of pottery, objects found in shipwrecks
- What was the chief of Thessaly's aristocratic families known as
- archon
- In 514 BC Who did Darius I turn his imperial ambitions toward?
- Thrace and Macedonia
- Who crowned himself King of Babylon in 721 BC
- Marduk-apla-iddin
- Invasions by which culture interrupted the trading patterns between the Aegean, Levant and Italy
- Dorians
- Who was the 1st known Greek phlosopher, what did he theorize
- Thales, world made from water
- This pupil of Thales wrote a treatise titled "On the Nature of Things"
- Anaximander
- The Hittite Kingdom was located in which modern-day country?
- Turkey