SS100 Spring Exam 23

Mrs. Ahrens

LUCY

Donald Johansson discovered this bipedal hominid

Hunter Gatherers

Egalitarian, Small groups, Nomadic, No Social Classes, Cave Paintings, Fertility figurines

Agricultural Revolution

Marked by invention of irrigation and domestication of animals

River Valley Locations

Tigris, Nile, Huang He, Indus

Retaliation Code of Law

Hammurabi of Babylon

Compensation Code of Law

Nesilim of Hatti

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar's Valentine

Sargon of Akkad

World's First Emperor

Hittites

Smallpox killed these Iron lovers

Ziggurat

Temple in Mesopotamia

The Lord our G-d is one.

Monotheism in the Shema

Ashurbanipal of Assyria

Lions and Libraries

Enheduanna, the priestess

World's first known author

Cuneiform of Sumer

World's 1st writing

Pharaoh Hatshepsut

Built mortuary temple for herself at Deir al Bahri

Frenemies Egypt and Nubia

Cultural Diffusion

Natural Barriers of Egypt

Med Sea, cataract, deserts

Natural Barriers of India

Indian Ocean, Hindu Kush, Himalayas

Natural barriers of China

Gobi, Takla Makan, Jungles, Himalayas, Tien Shan

Natural barriers of Mesopotamia

Caucasus, Persian Gulf, Zagros, Caspian and Black

Egyptian Afterlife

Happy Field of Food

Mesopotamian Afterlife

World of Clay

Hindu Afterlife

World of the Fathers

Akhetaten

Worship of the Sun's disk Aten

Seth

Horus avenged his father Osiris by killing his uncle

Reincarnation (Samsara)

Dharma and Karma earns you a better or worse life.

Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

Seeks the Truth about Suffering and becomes Enlightened

Four Noble Truths

All of life is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, the cure is to overcome desires, to do that follow the 8 Fold Path

Ganesha

The elephant headed son of Shiva and Shakti

Patriarchy

Rama's magic circle around Sita, his wife.

Dowry Deaths/Bride Burnings

Tragic by-product of Patriarchy in India

Hindu Trimurti

Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

Qin Shi Huangdi

1st Emperor of China who built roads, a bureaucracy and a Wall

Yu

1st leader of Xia Dynasty who labored tirelessly to tame the River of Sorrows

Fu Hao

Real life Shang Warrior Queen

Fa Mulan

Legendary Chinese Warrior woman

Legalism

Chinese philosophy of Han Feizi rooted in harshly enforcing the Law.

Daoism

"Do nothing and all things will be accomplished" - Lao Tzu

Ban Zhao

Admonitions for Women advised her daughters to be submissive

Right Relationships

Confucian teaching telling a little sister to obey her big sister.

Homer

Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey

Darius of Persia

Achaemenid Emperor who attempted to conquer Greece

Sparta

Enslaved the local people and trained for war from age 6 to 60

Eris

Brought Golden Apple to a wedding to create DISCORD

Achilles

Greatest of all the Greek heroes in Trojan War. Undone by his weak ankles.

Medea

Play about Jason's vengeful "wife".

Oedipus Rex

Play detailing fate's effects on a man's life.

Herodotus

Famed Greek known as "Father of History"

Oracle at Delphi

Greek headquarters of divination where all prophecies were revealed in riddle.

Hellenized

Alexander the Great "greekified" the world he conquered.

Khadija

Beloved wife of Mohammed and 1st convert to Islam

Quran

Sacred text of Islam along with the Sunnahs and Hadith

Analects

Sacred text of Confucianism

Vedas

Sacred text of Hinduism

Tripitaka (three baskets)

Sacred text of Buddhism

Dao de Jing (Way of Virtue)

Sacred text of Daoism

Hegira (hijra)

Flight of Muhammad and beginning of Islam

Pillars of Islam

Shahadah, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving and Pilgrimage (hajj)

Abu Bakr

Successor to Muhammad and 1st Caliph

Isaac

Son of Abraham and Hagar, founder of Mecca and builder of Ka'aba

Minoan

Prototypes of Greeks

To submit to G-d

Islam and Muslim means

People of the Book

Abrahamic religions: Muslims, Christians and Jews - are all...

Halley's Comet

Omen in the Bayeux Tapestry

Bubonic Plague

Black Death caused by fleas on rats

Magna Carta

King John relinquished his royal power when he signed this charter in 1215

William the Conqueror

Duke of Normandy who invaded England in 1066

Vikings

Northmen who raided and plundered Europe, Russia and the Mediterranean starting in 793

Octavian Augustus

1st Roman Emperor who built roads and aqueducts.

Wool

Textile produced in northern Europe from sheep

Silk

Textile produced in China from worms

Cotton

The "fabric of life" produced in the Indus River Valley

Guilds

Business associations in medieval towns

White elephant

Because Buddha's mother dreamt of this animal she knew he was destined to become a holy man

YUAN

Mongol dynasty in China run by Kublai Khan

Marco Polo

Prince of Lies who claimed he saw rocks on fire, paper that was used as money, worms that made silk and colorful explosions in the sky

Ibn Battuta

Learned Muslim legal scholar who traveled the Sand Roads

Diplomatic Gift to Charlemagne

A "white elephant" was originally an unwanted

Feudalism

Loyalty in exchange for land and power

Borobudur

Hometown of Marco Polo

Timbuktu

Hometown of Ibn Battuta

Dunhuang

Hometown of Zheng He

Purusha

Hinduism refers to Purusha as the soul of the universe, the universal spirit present everywhere, in everything and everyone, all the time

Chinggis Khan

Great Leader of Mongols who conquered the world in the 1200s

Troubadour

Poets who wrote love songs

Ka'aba

House of God for Muslims

Indus Seal

seals used in the indus river valley civilization probably used to close documents and mark packages of goods

Parthenon

Temple to Athena in Greece

Terracotta Warriors

collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang

Bayeux Tapestry

embroidered cloth that depicts the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England

Stepped Pyramid

pyramid of djoser in Egypt

Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus, son of Aegeus decided to be one of the seven young men that would go to Crete, in order to kill the Minotaur and end the human sacrifices to the monster

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

Anubis

god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld

Narmer Palette

celebrate Narmer’s military “victories” over Lower Egypt

Silk Road

network of Eurasian trade routes

traded goods such as silk, spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool, precious metals, diseases, and ideas

Sand Road

routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa

North had manufactured goods, salt, horses, cloth, dates. South had crops, gold, ivory, kola nuts, slaves.

Sea Road

route of trade along the seas and oceans

glass and other goods for Chinese decorated ceramics

Aqueduct

Roman system for moving water from the mountains to the city.

Sargon of Akkad

First Emperor of Akkad