Western Civ Study Guide
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- The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East incorporating the Levant, Ancient Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt, known as the "Cradle of Civilization." The term "Fertile Crescent" was coined by University of Chicago archaeologist _____, around 1900.
- James Henry Breasted
- Who was David's son?
- Solomon
- ______ was the Ancient Egyptian concept of truth, order—law, morality, and justice[2] which was deified as a goddess.[3] It was seen as being charged with regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities, [4] after she had set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation.
- Ma'at
- An Egyptian boy, when writing to his sweetheart, would typically address her as what?
- Sister
- Desert people who introduced the war chariot to Egypt
- Hyksos
- The first person to make tragedies was ______
- Aeschylus
- T/F The Paleolithic Age was male dominated, gender divided social system.
- True; Utilized tools, developed abstract thought FALSE: produced food through regular agriculture
- The Assyrians used ____ warefare as their military tactic
- Guerilla
- Sumer , "Land of the Lords of Brightness"[1], Biblical Shinar), the cradle of civilization, is the ____ known civilization in the world, located in Mesopotamia in modern southern ___.
- earliest / Iraq
- T/F Mesopotamian society was small villages, which were hard to defend, and the basic units of civilization.
- FALSE; industry was important, slaves were treated well, public and private seperation
- What Egyptian God was the Judge of the Dead.
- Osiris
- T/F The Code of Hammurabi sought to achieve equality of the sexes
- FALSE; financial liabilities, military stability, and commercial intergrity.
- ______ writing consisted of over ____ characters whereas the English alphabet consists of only 26. Each ______ character takes the form of a common object from their day
- hieroglyphic / 2000
- T/F Characteristic of civilization is the social structure based on democratic principles.
- FALSE; political and goverment bureaucracies, writing and written records, religious structures
- What books taught that everlasting life is reserved only for the Gods
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- _____ is considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world. He was an Athenian and a participant in the Peloponneisan War.
- Thucydides
- Belief in and worship of multiple Gods
- Polytheism
- He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheistic worship of _____ , although there are doubts as to how successful he was at this
- Amenhotep IV / Aten
- ____ formed the principal basis of Assyrian life
- Agriculture
- What made Mesopotamian people feel dependant upon gods for survival
- Nature
- Greeks first comedy was developed by ______
- Aristophanes
- The largest number of laws in the Code of Hammurabi focused on___
- Marriage and Family
- Indo European refers to what?
- A grouping of languages
- Bronze civilization had been established on the large island of ____.
- Crete
- The first king of the Israelites was ____
- Saul
- Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, "paternal kinsman," and Rāpi, "healer"; c. 1810 BC - 1750 BC), was the 6th king of _____. He became the ____ king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon's control over ______ by winning a series of wars against neighboring kingdoms. Although his empire controlled ____ of Mesopotamia by the time of his death, his successors were unable to maintain his empire.
- Babylon/ 1st / Mesopotamia / all
- Ancient Egypts Old Kingdom had ____ dynasties, the Middle Kingdom had ___, and the New Kingdom had ____
- Four / Two / Three
- Mesopotamia (from the Greek meaning 'between two rivers')[1] is an area geographically located between the ____ and ____rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq[1][2][3] and western part of Iran
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Egyptian King _____ united both Upper and Lower Egypt
- Menes
- The rugular floods of the Nile gave Egyptian society a sense of continuity and led to a ____ rather than a linear view of histoyr
- Continuity / Cyclical
- Mesopotamian city states may first have been ruled by _____ before later being ruled by ____
- Priests ; Kings
- Cyrus the Great was controlled the ____ empire.
- Persian
- T/F Egyptian Queens could have more than one husband
- FALSE
- Catal Huyuk, an ancient city located in what is today ____, shows that by 6000 BC man could produce food ______ and had time to make _______ and ______
- Turkey ; Surpluses; Weapons; Jewelry
- What dedicated to worshipping the city's Gods.
- Ziggurat
- T/F Egyptian art was largly expressive and distinguished great artists from their less talented rivals.
- FALSE; It was functional, highly stylized, and strict formulas
- The ____ influenced the evolution of Greek society
- Sea
- According to the Sumerian king list, Gilgamesh was the son of Lugalbanda and the ____ king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk). He ruled circa 2600 BC. He became the central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh One of the best known works of early literature, which says that his mother was Ninsun (whom some call Rimat Ninsun), a goddess. Gilgamesh is described as __/__ god and __/___human.
- 5th, 2/3, 1/3
- A ____ was a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Iran, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories or levels
- ziggurat
- The _____ were people dwelling in Palestine who became the predominant sea traders of the ancient Near East.
- Phoenician
- Punishment under Hammurabi's Code was often ____ and varied according to the social class of the ______
- Sever / Victim
- Earliest period of mans development
- Paleolithic
- _____ is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau: the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples
- Giza
- The Sun God for Hammurabi was
- Shamash