| A | B |
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| What does Mesopatamia mean? | land between two rivers |
| What helped shape the history of Mesopatamia? | climate, landscape |
| What is Hammurabi best remembered for? | his code of justice |
| What did the Nile River provide their civilization with? | product surplus of food, unified Egypt |
| What is the Phoenician culture best remembered for? | alphabet |
| What does Judaism is a stateless religion mean? | God is not fixed to one land, but creator and Lord of whole world |
| Why were Assyrians good at conquering others? | good military leaders, different tactics (guerilla warfare/terror) |
| What were people who made weapons and jewelry called? | artesians |
| What was created by using writing as a means of creative expression? | literature??? |
| What was Heinrich Schliemann obsessed with finding? | lost city of Troy |
| Why was Amenhotep IV important? | monotheistic Egyptian pharaoh |
| Who were the Immortals? | Persian cavalry and infantry force that never fell below 10,000 |
| How was bronze made? | copper and tin |
| Who guards the great Pyramid? | Great Sphynx |
| What did early civilizations use vegetable fibers for? | cloth |
| What were the earliest tools made out of? | iron |
| What was important to the development of Egyptian and Mesopatamian civilization? | geography |
| What was the Code of Hammurabi based on? | social class/justice |
| What did Cyrus allow the Hebrews to do? | return to Jerusalem |
| What can be said about flooding in early civilzations? | used to water crops/ they depended on it |
| What did Cyrus create? | roads, and stronger government |
| What is the Epic of Gilgamesh about? | Mesopatamian Noah and the Flood |
| When was the wheel invented? | 3,500-3,000 BC |
| What were city-states known as in the Sumerian civilization? | basic unit of Sumerian civilization |
| What were the two main technological inventions of the Paleolithic peoples? | fire and tools |
| What is theocracy? | government by divine authority |
| What does monotheism mean? | one God for all people |
