ACDEC SS Demicards V
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- Evidence of Mycenean prosperity is found in what?
- large qtys of gold, silver, and weapons found in their graves
- Where was Akkad?
- on the Euphrates
- What significant events did Akkad's rise to prominence mark?
- establishment of Mes empire, end of Sumerian control
- The Sumerian city-states allied themselves under whom for protection?
- Lugalzagesi, king of 3rd Dynasty of Uruk
- What did later generations most remember Naram-Sin for?
- Offending the gods and inciting rebellions
- Who is faulted for the fall of the Akkadian Empire?
- Naram-Sin
- The 2nd Intermediate period lasted from ___ to ____ BC
- 1650, 1550
- Which two attributes marked Sennarcherib's reign?
- conquest and warfare
- Who began raiding Rome in 367 BC?
- Gauls
- What was Assyria's new capital?
- Kalhu
- The line of vigorous Assyrian monarchs that began regaining lost lands in the west started with whom?
- Ashurdan II
- A conflict between what two cities created the 2nd Pelo War?
- Corcyra and Corinth
- What does the Macehead of King Narmer confirm?
- he participated in the heb-sed
- This cultural group's language is related to Sanskrit and Greek
- Hittites
- Why is it difficult to determine the nature of Sargon's rise to power and rule?
- Most accts speak of him in legenary and hyperbolic terms
- In what two ways did Ahmose I restore kingly power?
- military incursions, deals w/ nomarchs
- Capital of 17th dynasty
- Thebes
- Cyaxares son
- Astyages
- Who did Nabopolassar ally himself w/
- Cyaxares of Media
- What attribute of prehistoric Egypt leads to the notion that there was conflict between U and L
- tribal city-states, especially in U
- What was the geographic extent of the Mittani state by 1400 BC/
- Medit to Zagros
- How did Athens deal w/ dissent under Cleisthenes?
- ostracism
- What is the period between AD 14 and 180 known as?
- Pax Romana
- Why were the Phoenicians temporarily able to experience independence from Assyrian intimidation?
- rise of Baby empire checked Assyrians
- Mittani king who ruled over all of Upper Mes
- Saustatar
- How long did the 1st Inter Period last?
- 140 yrs
- 1st dynasty capital
- Memphis
- Appius Caecus was a censor/consul
- censor
- Minor officials who announced appearance of anyone w/ imperium
- lectors
- How long did Thutmose III's "reign" last?
- 50+ yrs
- 3 reasons for decline of Old Kingdom under Pepy II
- too long reign, monument building used too many resources, poor floods
- Dates of Greek dark ages
- 1100-776 BC
- Grave goods at Lefkandi show evidence of contact w/ which areas
- Cyprus and the Levant
- define quaestor
- roman financial officer
- This dynasty filled political vaccuum left by death of Mursilis I
- 1st Dynasty of Sealand
- In which regions did Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus lead armies in battle?
- Sicily, Africa, Italy
- Hittites and Mittani fought over which territorial possessions
- N Syria and Taurus Mts