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Review – Test 1
Review
• Mesopotamia
• Sumer
– First Civilization
– Technology
• Bronze
• Writing
– Cuneiform
• Mathematics
– “Sexagesimal”
• Sumer: Early Dynastic
Period
– Lugals
– Sumerian Religion
• Polytheism
• Ziggurat
– The Epic of Gilgamesh
• First Great Literary Work
• Epic Poem
• Indus Valley
– Mohenjo-Daro
– Harappa
Review
• Early Egypt
– Upper & Lower Egypt
• Narmer (Menes) – Fist
Pharaoh – 3100 BC
– Egyptian Calendar
– Writing
• Hieroglyphics & Heriatic
• Egypt: The Old Kingdom
– Height of Culture
– Djoser
• The Step Pyramid /
Pyramid of Djoser
– Khufu (Cheops)
• Great Pyramid at Giza
– Egyptian Religion
• Ra (Re)
• The god Pharaoh
• Ma’at
Review
• The Akkadians
– Sargon I - Circa 2350 BC
– Akkadian Empire
• First Empire
• Egypt: First
Intermediate Period
– Civil War
– Cause?
– Distribution of Wealth
and Culture
• Egypt: Middle Kingdom
– Mentuhotep II
– Expansion & Trade
– Nubia / Kush
• Third Dynasty of Ur
– Code of Ur Nammu
• Hittites – “Hatti”
– Asia Minor (Anatolia)
– Chariots
– Iron Tools / Weapons
Review
• Minoans
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King Minos – Legends
Crete
Linear A - Language
Proto-Greeks?
• Old Babylonian Empire
– Hammurabi
• Religion – Marduk
• The Code of Hammurabi
• China
– Shang Dynasty
• Egypt: Second
Intermediate Period
– Hyksos Invasion
– Bronze
• India
– Caste System
– Hinduism
• Reincarnation, Karma,
Dharma, Moksha
Review
• Olmec
– First Meso-American
• The Mitanni
– Northern Syria
– Light Chariot
– Hittites & Egypt
• Egypt - The New Kingdom
– Early 18th Dynasty
• Ahmose I
• Hatshepsut
• Thutmose III
• Egypt - The New Kingdom
– Battle of Megiddo
– Religion
• Amon-Ra
– 18th Dynasty & Religion
• Amenhotep IV / Akhenaton
• Aten
– Monotheism?
• Tutankaten / Tutankhamen
Review
• Egypt - The New Kingdom
– 19th Dynasty
• Ramses II
– Territorial Height
• Battle of Kadesh
– Egypt v. Hittites
• Mycenaeans
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Conquered Minoans
Linear B
Collapse
• Greek Dark Age
– Dark Age & Heroic Age
– Homer
• Iliad
• Odyssey
– Hesiod
• Theogony
• Collapse of Empires
– The Sea Peoples
• Egypt
– Third Intermediate Period
• Kushite Control
Review
• China
– Zhou Dynasty
• Mandate of Heaven
• Silk
• History & Poetry
• Neo-Assyrian Period
– Assurbanipal
– Assyrian Military
– Capitals
• Assur (Ashur)
• Nineveh
– Relief Sculpture
• Chaldean / NeoBabylonian Empire
– Nabopolassar
• Rebellion against the
Assyrians
– Battle of Carchemish
• Assyria & Egypt
• Medes & Chaldeans
– Nebuchadnezzar
• Greatest Height
– Nabonidus
Review
• Persian Empire
– Cyrus the Great
• Conquests
• Persian Subjects - Local
laws and Customs
– Croesus - King of Lydia
– Jews
– Cambyses
• Egypt
– Darius I
• Greatest Height
• Phoenicia
– Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos
– Trade
• Dyes
• Cedar Trees
• Iron
– Colonization - Carthage
– Phoenician Alphabet
• Philistia / Philistines
– Reputation
– Military
– Metal smithing
Review
• Hebrews
– Old Testament / Tanakh
• Torah – The Law
• Nevi'im – The Prophets
• Ketuvim – The Writings
– Abraham
– Moses & the Exodus
• Kingdom of Israel
– David - Jerusalem
– Solomon - Solomon’s
Temple
• The Divided Kingdom
– Israel
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Cosmopolitan
Samaria
Phoenician Alliance
Assyrian Conquest
– Judah
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Isolation
Jerusalem
Religion
Babylonian Conquest
Review
• Greece
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Hellenes
The Archaic Age
The Polis – City-state
Government
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Monarchy
Tyranny
Oligarchy
Democracy
– Colonization
– Hoplite Warfare
• Phalanx
– Sparta
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Messenian Wars
Helots / Helotry
Oligarchy
Status Quo
– Athens
• Solon - Constitution
• Cleisthenes
– Father of Democracy
• Democracy
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Ekklesia
Boule
Deme
Ostracism
Review
• Buddhism
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Siddhartha Gautama
Nirvana
The Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
Theravada / Mahayana
• Confucianism
– China’s greatest single
cultural force
– Kung Fu-tzu – Confucius
– Family
– Gentility
– Mandarins – “Shi”
• Paganism
– Greece
– Polytheism
– Ritual vs. Belief
• Zoroastrianism
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Persia
Dualism
Zoroaster / Zarathustra
Ahura Mazda
Ahriman/Angra Mainyu
Magi - Priests
Avesta - scriptures
Free Will
Review
• Hebrews / Judaism
– Monotheism
– The Name of God
• Yahweh
• Adonai - Lord
– Polytheism v.
Monotheism
– The Covenant
– Ethics & Worship
– Babylonian Captivity &
After
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World Religion - Judaism
Universal
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Free Will
Review
• Herodotus
– The Histories
– “Father of History”
• First Greco-Persian War
– Battle of Marathon
– Miltiades
• Second Greco-Persian
War
– Battle of Thermopylae
– Battle of Salamis
• Turning point of the War
– Battle of Plataea
• Athens at its Height
– Strategos
– Pericles
– “Showplace of Greece”
• Greek Drama
– Aeschylus
• The Persians
– Sophocles
• Oedipus the King
– Euripides
• Impact on Rome
Review
• Pre-Socratic Philosophy
– Thales of Miletus
• Natural Phenomena
– Hippocrates
• “The Father of Medicine”
– Sophists
• Protagoras
• Relativism
• Socrates
– Socratic Method of
Questioning
– Precise definition of words
– Ethics
• Plato
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The Academy
Doctrine of Ideas
Allegory of the Cave
Republic
• Aristotle
– Lyceum
– Rational ordering of
sensory experience
– Nicomachean Ethics
– Politics
Review
• The Delian League
– Athens
– Imperialistic
– Corinth
• The Peloponnesian
Wars
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Siege of Athens
Invasion of Syracuse
Persian Aid
Athens Defeated
• Macedon
– Phillip II
– Battle of Chaeronea
– League of Corinth
• Alexander the Great
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Aristotle
Darius III
Greece to India
Merging of cultures
• Greek & Persian
Review
• Alexander’s Legacy
– Egyptian Empire
(Ptolemaic)
– Persian Empire (Seleucid)
– Macedonian Empire
(Antigonid)
– Kingdom of Pergamum
• Mauryan Empire
– Chandragupta
– Ashoka
• Buddhism
• China
– Warring States
– Qin Dynasty
– Shih Huang-di
• First Emperor of China
• Hellenistic Culture
– Relationship of Polis &
Monarchy
Review
• Mystery Religions
– Isis
– Serapis
– Mithras
• Philosophy
– Skepticism
– Cynicism
– Epicureanism
• Epicurus of Athens
• pursuit of pleasure –
ataraxia
– Stoicism
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Stoa
Brotherhood of man
Logos
Influence the Romans
• Astronomy
– Aristarchus of Samos
• earth revolved around the
sun
– Ptolemy of Alexandria
• all Heavenly bodies revolve
around the earth
Review
• Mathematics
– Euclid
– Elements of Geometry
• Geography
– Eratosthenes of Alexandria
• circumference of the earth
• Medicine
– Herophilus of Chalcedon
• Anatomy, Brain, Pulse
– Erasistratus
• valves of the heart
• motor and sensory nerves
• Physics
– Archimedes of Syracuse
• Pi
• Hydrostatics
• lever, the pulley, and the
screw
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Akhenaton
Hammurabi’s Code
Darius I
Athenian Democracy
Socrates
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Judaism
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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40 Multiple Choice (5 Omits)
10 True/False
4 Short ID (3pts each)
1 Chronology (3pts)
1 Essay (5pts)
3 Bonus (6pts)