History Final Exam Review (abridged starts at #32)

Egypt is known as the "__ of the Nile"

Ancient cities of the Indus Valley were protected by strong __ built by their engineers

Greek art wanted to portray what instead of realism?

The second king of Israel

what was the first Chinese dynasty?

Which dynasty was sharply divided between the nobles and the peasants?

Their solar year was based on flooding

Who was the founder of the school of philosophy known as Epicurianism?

The Egyptians writing was known as cuneiform.

The most powerful of the first 3 kings of Israel

Who was the philosophical founder of the school of Stoicism?

Shang kings consulted the gods through the use of what?

The values of harmony, order, balance and proportion became the ideal standard of what kind of art?

They coined money

Nomads were highly __ people who moved from place to place foraging for new sources of __

Big bronze-makers

Used blast furnaces to make Iron

Builders of elaborate palaces made of wood

How long did the creation process take?

Had the "Mound of the Dead" and the swastika

The year the Jews were allowed to return to Judah and rebuild Jerusalem

Which dynasty produced many innovations like roads, canals, coined money, and apparently spaghetti?

Name the two types of Greek drama.

The city that was at the forefront of Hellenistic culture

Geographers refer to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as the Asian subcontinent.

Monsoon is another name for hurricane.

Roads and canals were key modes of transportation

Three of the civilizations were polytheistic. Which other may have been?

The year the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt

Lower Egypt includes the __ Region.

The creator of the world's first empire was Sargon of Akkad.

Mesopotamia means the land surrounding the rivers.

Hieroglyphics were the first written on stone and clahy.

The man God made a covenant with

A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the Egyptians to make a paper-like material for writing on

Two famous men in mathematics and physics

Father of the Jewish People

The Neolithic Revolution is also known as the __. Scientists believe __ was its cause.

The man who built the great temple in Jerusalem

What does the term "philosophers" mean?

One of the judges of Israel

How was the universe created?

The process by which a new idea or product spreads from one culture to another is called cultural diffusion.

Came up with the idea of cardinal directions

People of all classes planned their burial before they died just to be safe about reaching the afterlife.

What percent of Chinese land is considered arable?

The cities of the INdus Valey were laid out in a random pattern with winding streets.

A city-state in Mesopotamia functioned like a royal city.

The year the 2nd temple was completed

What spiritual beings did the Chinese believe had the power to bring them good fortune (or disaster)?

Who is known as the greatest historian of the Classical Age?

The Mandate of Heaven and Feudalism

Every year in __, rains and melting snow from the mountains of __ caused the Nile River to rise over its banks.

Big on acupuncture, medicinal tea, and chiropractic

The year the northern kingdom was sent into exile

The earliest governments in Sumer were controlled by temple priests.

Had a united kingdom with a Theocracy

There are 3 major rivers that flow through Mesopotamia originating in Turkey.

The blending of Egyptian, Indian, Persian, and Greek culture is called what?

The year that Jerusalem was destroyed

Civilization with the Red Sea to the south and east

Used surgeons and surgical tools

The river valley with regular flood patterns

The name of the temple built to Athena in Athens

Hammurabi's laws applied to all members of the society equally.

The Egyptians took some of their ideas from the mesopotamians.

The Harappan language is made up of about 400 symbols.

The Indus River originates in the __ mountains and emptied into the __ Sea

The king who destroyed jerusalem

Cuneiform in clay

The historians call the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties what?

Invented the plow and the use of irrigation

Where the women died with their husbands

The Sumerians invented the sail, wheel, and plow.

Much of the lower Indus Valley is occupied by the Thar desert.

What is the nutrient laden silt that overflows the Chinese rivers at flood-stage to fertilize the land?

The Sumerians believed that the gods were in charge of the various forces of nature.

The man God used to deliver the Jews from the slavery of Egypt

The political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belongs to the kings

Introduced the base 60 system of mathematics and time measurment

India was building its first city while Egypt was building the pyramids

Grid system for roads

The early government of Egypt was a theocracy.

He wrote a code that was much like the 10 Commandments

The king who established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

The development of agriculture caused increasing __ and the growth of a __ way of life

Three famous astronomers were who?

There were years when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers did not flood and cause famine.

The one who provided the Hebrews with Canaan as their homeland

The ancient civilization that had no natural barriers

The number of monotheistic nations surrounding Israel

The most famous works of Greek literature are the great epic poems written by what man?

The center of the Indian Peninsula is a high plateau cut by rivers. The region is called the __ Plateau

Home of the rice patty

Stamps in terra cotta not yet translated

Explain the two triads of the 6 days of creation.

So far, the Harrapan language has been impossible to translate.

The depositing of Silt was very important in farming

Upper Egypt is located near the Mediterranean Sea.

What was the name that the Chinese gave their country?

Developed the binary system along with algebra and trigonometry

The dry monsoon winds in India are a summer phenomenon.

Who are the 3 famous philosophers in ancient Greece?

Evidence points to the fact that Narmer was the first king of Egypt.

The king who united the tribes of Israel

Persian King who conquered Babylon