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| 1. 3000 BC Western Asia. 2. established a number of cities in the southernmost part part of Mesopotamia: Sumer. 3. Created writing: Cuneiform. |
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| 1. 1792-1750 BC. Babylon 2. Make Babylon Secure, Unify Mesopotamia and win for babylonians a place in Mesopotamian civiliation. 3. First code of law. |
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| 1. 4000-3000 BC. 2. Invented by Sumerians in Southern Mesopotamia. A form of pictures used as a language and to communicate. 3. Started religions in believing in one god. |
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| 1. 1300 BC. 2. Hittites stopped the Egyptian army of Rameses II. 3. Hittites introduced iron into war and agriculture with the making of tools and weapons. An alliance was later formed with the Egyptians. |
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| 1. 859 BC. 2. Unleashed a series of attacks on Syria and Palestine. Assyrian armies would keep attacking the west. Shalmaneser was a king. 3. Shalmeneser led other kings to conquer more land like Babylonia and N.Egypt. |
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| 1. 559-539 BC. 2. Created a massive persian empire from Macedonia to India. 3. Although he conquered land he let the ppl in those regions keep their faith and lifestyle. |
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| 1. 1200BC, Isreal and Judah. 2.Religious concept, a code of conduct/agreement between Yahweh and his ppl (the hebrews). Took form of 10 commandments brought down by the Prophet Moses. 3. Made the worshippers accountable to they God they worshipped. |
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| 1. 1650 BC in Crete. 2. Greeks had established themselves at Mycenae.They used bronze implements. 3.Responsible for the bronze age and Linear A. |
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| 1. 336 BC.Maredonia (North of Greece) 2. Emperor built his greek empire by conquering Persia.The empire collapsed on his death and was split into 3 kingdoms. 3. Impressive military conquest-resulted in the spread of greek culture throughout Nr. Africa, W. Asia, S. Europe. Changed the face of politics |
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| 1. 1100-800BC. 2. Author of the Illiad and the Odyssey. 3. Created a legendary past of the Gods of Greece for ppl to read about. Writings carried a lot of info about the eara and it's characteristics. |
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| 1. 490-399 BC. 2. Greeks tried rebelling agains the Persian empire. They finally beat it. Athens started the Delia League after the victory, which was a naval army. 3. The victories for the Greeks meant that they remained free to develop genius and they could also keep political and intellectual views. |
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| Greeks developed their basic political and institutional unit,the Polis aka The city state. 3 major polis were Sparta, Athens, Thebes. ppl in a typical polis lived in a compact group of houses within a city. Greeks were their magistrates, administrators and soldiers. Many different ways to govern monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. |
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| 1. 431-404 BC. 2. A war between Spartans and Athenians it lasted a generation and brought plaques, famines and civil wars. 3. In 404 BC the Athenians surrendered but by then Greek society had taken a serious hit. |
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| 1. 264-133 BC 2. Carthage vs. Rome. Numerous attacks on Carthage even though after every war Carthage would little by little give in. 3. After Carthaginians had been paying Rome, Rome still fought a 3rd war and destroyed Carthage. |
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| 1. 274-337 AD (Emperor 306-339 AD). 2. Repaired a lot of damage done in the 3rd century. Convert to chistianity and made laws persecuting non-christians. 3. Excuting ppl for not believing in Christianity and made ppl believe that God will punish them if they don't worship God. |
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| 1.429AD. 2. Theodosios commissioned the Theodosian code. 3. a collection of laws making christianity the official religion of the empire and punishing those who did not convert. |
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| 1. 753-504bc. 2. Estruscans were the ppl that the romans took after and used their alphabet. They traded w/greeks which linked Romans & greeks. 3. In 504 BC the roman's declared independence from Euturia. |
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| Senatus populinsque Romans |
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| 1. 509BC. 2. A saying that meant "The Roman Senate and the ppl" 3. Romans realisitically met challenges and built institutions and what not to deal with the problems. |
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| 1. 27 BC-14 AD 2. First Roman Emperor taught the flavians to spread Roman peace. 3. Restored a Roman Republic- He was "princeps civitatis" first citizen of the state. |
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| 1. sumerians developed cuneiform writing. 2. Hammurabi issued first written code of law. 3. Hebrews began monotheism and covenant religion (Judaism). 4. Persian Empire established by Cyrus.5.Roman Republic Established. 6. Polyponnesian War (Athens vs Sparta) 7. Philip of Macedon conquered Greece, Alexander establishes empire. 8. Punic Wars end, leaving Rome in control of Western Mediterranean. 9. Ceasar Augustus initiated Pax Romana, or Roman Peace. 10. jesus of Nazareth began Christian relgion. |
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| Compare and Contrast the relative strengths and weaknesses of the empires we have studied from Assryia to Rome (Assyrian, Persian, Alexandrian (Greek & Roman) |
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| Assyrian: + combined administrative skills, economic acumen, and wealth w/military organization to create an aggressive military state.- military ruthlessness and cruelty raised powerful enemies against them (Iranians, created persian emp) * Photo on pg 41 shows a Siege of a city. shows cruelty 2. Perian Empire, Iranians entered the Near east causing progress in culture, economic growth, increase pop allowed them to create largest empire in the Near East. Unlike Assyrians, gave a long period of peace.3. Greek and Roman: Originators of science and philosphy. Acheivements, development of sophisticated political instituions to creation of rich lit. Alexander the Great opened up the Cultural World of the near east. |
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| Using Specifc and direct examples, define "civlization." What is the difference between a simple community of ppl and a full fledged civilation? In other words, How do you know a civilization when you are looking at one? |
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| Civilization= citizens bind themselves polically, economically, and social development, notion of law, art and science to explain the larger world, theology, cultural diffusion, trade, religion. Simple Community- local, small residences, common interest, not diverse like a civ., the same jobs etc, |
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