western civilization midterm

revolutionary development around 10,000 BCE resulting in village life?

farming and agriculture

Babylonian king who issued an early code of written laws during the 18th century B.C.E

Hammurabi

3rd millennium B.C.E Mesopotamian ruler who conquered Akkadian cities along the Euphrates while boasting of his humble background

Sargon

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Euphrates 

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persian

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tigris 

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babylon

Egyptian pharaoh, also known as Akhenaton, who adopted a form of monotheism during the 14th century B.C.E

Amenhotep IV

new kingdom female egytptian pharaoh whose twenty year reign featured the successful conquest of Nubia and her official depiction with traditional male features 

Hatshepsut 

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nile

7th century B.C.E nassyrian ruler famous for wrestling lions and assembling a library containing some 30,00 ancient texts

Ashurbanipal

the Hebrew religion

believed in an omnipotent God, Yahweh. Was an ethical religion centered around the Ten Commandments. Taught there was a covenant between the hebrews and yahweh 

identify the correct order from the earliest the latest in time

Assyrian-hittite- Babylonian- Chaldean

Babylonian-hittite-assyrian-chaldean

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aegean 

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Red Sea

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Carthage city

6th century B.C.E greek leader known as the father of athenian democracy for instituting reforms such as the demes system.

cleisthenes 

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Athens city

persian ruler from 522 to 486 B.C.E dubbed the shopkeeper for his emphasis on taxation and trade

darius

founder of the Persian empire who conquered Asia Minor, Babylon, Thrace, Egypt, and Punjab in the 6th century B.C.E

Cyrus 

7th century B.C.E Persian priest whose writings focused on the nature of the god Ahura Mazada

zoroaster

identify the year(s) and ear of the following event; the Peloponnesian wars

431-404 B.C.E

greek philosopher and student of plato whose 4th century B.C.E contributions to the sciences held sway for over a millennium 

Aristotle 

approach to knowledge centered on the human experience and the application of observation and reason rather than focusing on the role of the gods in human affairs 

humanism 

greek historian whose writings on the Peloponnesian war focused on human motivations and decisions in order to test his hypothesis that Athens lust for power best explained the causes and course of the conflict 

Thucydides 

proportional relationship appealing to human visual perception employed in classical era architecture and art

golden ratio

last pharaoh of ptolemaic Egypt who allied herself with Marc Anthony and committed suicide in 30 B.C.E

Cleopatra 

Macedonian general who conquered Asia Minor, syria, Egypt, and the Persian empire in the 4th century B.C.E

Alexander the Great

Founded school at Athens in 300 B.C.E. where he encouraged students known as Stoics to submit to cosmically-ordered fate in opposition to Epicurean teachings.

Zeno

identify the years and era of the following event, the death of Alexander the Great

323 B.C.E

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Homeric-Hellenistic-Mycenaean-Classical

Mycenaean- Homeric- Classical- Hellenistic

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Alexandra city

Also known as Octavian, the first Roman emperor as proclaimed by the Senate after defeating Marc Antony at Actium in 30 B.C.E.

augustus 

1st cen. B.C.E. Roman orator and statesman known for his writings on rhetoric, virtue, and corruption during the Late Republic.

cicero

Antonine emperor at the height of the empire's territorial breadth who oversaw the expansion of public facilities in Rome prior to his death in 117 C.E.

Trajan

Christian saint whose 4th cen. C.E. Latin translation of the Bible is still authorized and used by the roman catholic church?

Jerome

4th cen, Christian philosopher renowned as a church father for his attempts to reconcile Christian theology and classical learning

augustine

Roman patriarch who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking Rome in 452 C.E. and established the Petrine theory of papal leadership.

Leo

Roman emperor who converted to Christianity after the Battle of Milvian Bridge and convened the council of Nicea in 325 C.E.

constantine

Originally called Saul, 1st cen. C.E. Roman citizen whose writings and travels helped define and spread early Christianity

Paul 

Latinized name of the founder of Christianity born in approximately 4 B.C.E

Jesus

Identify the year(s) and era of the following event: Fall of the western Roman Empire

476 C.E

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Byzantium/ constantinople

Identify the year(s) and era of the following event: Crucifixion of Jesus

30 AD

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black