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Jensen Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2090 BC - Answers Abram (Abraham) enters Canaan 1446 BC - Answers Exodus from Egypt 612-539 BC - Answers Chaldean or Babylonian Empire 605-536 BC - Answers Judah's 70-year captivity in Babylon 550-331 - Answers Persian Empire (began by Cyrus the Great, ended by Alexander) Howard Carter - Answers British archaeologist who discovered the first steps of King Tut's tomb on November 4, 1922 - it took Carter and his crew 10 years to complete the excavation of the tomb Zoroastrianism - Answers would become the de-facto state religion of Persia (Iran) - views the world as being divided between the spirits of good & evil (dualistic). Zoroastrians worship Ahura Mazda as the supreme deity, who is forever in conflict with Ahriman, the spirit of evil Regnal Dating - Answers based off the reign of kings Mesopatamia - Answers Means "the land between the rivers". The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates River. Located in present day Iraq and Syria Fertile Crescent - Answers includes: Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Palestine Far East - Answers May be used to designate India and China What is Mesopotamia called? - Answers Cradle of Civilization How is civilization defined? - Answers A culture that has attained a high degree of complexity, characterized by urban life Early Mesopotamian life - Answers Home - a swampy flood plain that allowed for productive fruit and grain agriculture - also subject to irregular flooding - irrigation allowed for "careers" beyond farming; thus: trade & manufacturing Tigris/Euphrates - Answers Open to invasion and saw constant warfare City State - Answers urban region and agricultural land under city control (Ur a leader) - roughly 12 of them dotted the region - population of about 30 K (maybe Cuneiform - Answers writing system. consisted of wedge marks on clay (in time c. 300 "characters") - it was complex & usually practiced by specially trained scribes - 1st readable documents c. 3200 BC Slavery - Answers widespread - at times 40-50% of the population could be enslaved - why? 1. people were taken captive during conquests 2. slavery served as a means to pay off debt Religion - Answers polytheism, concerned with life "now" - afterlife was uncertain & gloomy Sargon the Great (the first) - Answers built the world's first substantial empire: stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean who ruled c. BC Babylon - Answers A city prominent under Hammurabi Hammurabi - Answers (ruled c. BC) is best known for hi slaw code Egypt - Answers termed "the gift of the Nile" The Nile - Answers rose and fell with precision, was renewed by the "Black silt" left behind What did the Egyptians have? - Answers one of the longest lasting civilizations in history c 3,000 years c. 30 ruling dynasties The Pharaoh - Answers believed to be both a man and a god Pyramid - Answers burial chamber for the pharaohs Who was mummified? - Answers at first pharaohs, then anyone who could afford it Rosetta Stone - Answers inscribed 196 BC & found near Alexandria in 1799 by Napoleon's troops - contained inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian demotic (popular script), & Egyptian hieroglyphics Egyptians devised the first.... - Answers solar calendar Egyptian History- Old Kingdom Period - Answers age of pyramids reaches zenith at Giza the country's economy & culture flourished - however, the enormous expenditure on pyramids led to its decline - in a sense Egypt was financially destroyed by over-building (& upkeep) - there is crop failure & increased taxes Hyksos - Answers overthrown in a national uprising Hatshepsut - Answers First female pharaoh Amenhotep II - Answers Pharaoh during the 1446 Exodus of the Hebrews Akhenaton (a.k.a. Amenhotep IV) - Answers (ruled c. ) - attempted a type of monotheistic reform(worship of the sun god Aton; essentially henotheism: the worship of one god without denying the existence of others) Tutankhamun - King "Tut" - Answers little is known about his rule - for most of his 8-9 year reign, power lay with a general & elderly official - Tut would be a "footnote" to history, except that his tomb escaped looting & was found largely intact in 1922 - world tours followed The United Kingdom of Israel - Answers First three kings were Saul, David and Solomon The United Kingdom of Israel was divided to what and conquered by who - Answers 1) Israel (10 Northern tribes identified with Samaria) would be conquered 722 BC by the Assyrians 2) Judah (2 Southern tribes identified with Jerusalem) fully conquered 586 BC by the