ACDEC SS Demicards II
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- What battle did the Persians lose that would ultimately shape the outcome of the war?
- Salamis
- This was the cradle of Ionic-Greek culture
- Attica
- The leading Ionian city in Asia Minor was:
- Miletus
- How does the prescence of writing help historians
- they can see: organization, worldview, and meanings of actions
- To what regional group did the Mittani belong?
- Syro-Palestinians
- Who threatened Sparta's control of the Peloponnese in 544 BC
- Argos
- With whom did Polycrates ally himself during the Persian invasion of Egypt?
- Cambyses
- Founder of modern Assyria
- Ashur-uballit I
- What happened at the battle of Megiddo?
- Thutmose III defeated the Canaanite princes in 1468 BC
- Under who did Samos reach its peak of naval military power and prosperity?
- Polycrates
- How far did Sumer expand its trading netwk
- Iran, E Medit, Indus Valley
- Which regions did Augustus have imperium over?
- Syria, Gaul, Spain
- The three ideals of Greek art:
- harmony, proportion, serenity
- Which territories fought against Sparta in the Corinthian war?
- Corinth, Argos, Megara, Boeotia, Euboea, Athens
- Why did Messenia enjoy prosperity during the Bronze Age?
- rich resource base, hilly land for olives
- Who helped the Messenians revolt in 650 BC
- Arcadia and Argolis
- Caesar's accomplishments
- reformed calendar, elevated role of italians, increased # of senators, extended Roman citizenship
- Which city-states immediately withdrew from the Athenian League after Thebes defeated Sparta?
- Thebes, Chalcidice, Euboea, Acarnania
- Accomplishments of the Arcadian League?
- liberation of Messenia from Spata, building of Messene, founding of Megalopolis as federal capital, liberation of Thessaly from Jason of Pherae
- Sidonians founded merchant colonies in what territories?
- Hazor and Gaza, Memphis
- What did the ancient Persians do for survival?
- herded
- Hurrians acquired some traits of this cultural group
- Sumero-Akkadan
- What did archeologists find in Lefkandi?
- structure w/external collonades that supported a steep roof
- How did Hammurabi gain control of Larsa and all its possessions
- defeating Rimsin I in 1763 BC
- How did Thutmose I become king?
- strong military leader who married princes Ahmose
- T/F: Sparta was willing to enter alliances w/athens for greater good of Greece
- F
- T/F: mainland greek states didn't thwart Persia's expansionist desires
- T
- 18th dynasty expanded into this region
- Near East
- What event inspired the Etruscans to expand into the Po valley?
- founding of the Greek colony at Massalia, which shut them out of commerical tin routes
- Some Etrurian artifacts found in shipwrecks
- Etruscan amphorae, Corinthian bronze helmets, wood and ivory pipes, copper ingots marked w/ Greek letters
- Funeral goods give evidence of Villanovan contact with which settlements?
- Tuscany and Sardinia
- In what ways were Ur III's policies similar to Sargonic predecessors, and how were they different?
-
Same: temple building, deaughters as high priestesses
Diff: civil admin and control of production - Four social groups of Ionian tribes
- phratriai, demos, thetes, slaves
- What did Suppiluilumas do to secure Hittite's position in the region?
- Sacked the Mittani capital at Washukanni
- Who retrieved the stolen statue of Marduk?
- Agum II Katrime
- What was a praetor?
- judicial officer that evolved into a general and commanded a province
- What event was significant in making possible Persia's rise to empire?
- sacking of the Assyrian capital by Cyaxares