Multiple Choice-Ancient Med.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Syssita | The Spartan mess halls |
| Delian League | developed by Athens to build empire |
| Two reasons it was difficult to create a Pan-Hellenic effort were.. | geography and foreign invaders |
| Kritian boy was... | a realistic perfect statue |
| The Athenians were able to defeat the Persians at this battle. | Marathon |
| This allowed the Athenians to become more democratic after the Persian wars. | a naval empire |
| In Athens, "citizenship" | was open to everyone with navy, then closed to only people with two Athenian parents. |
| The purpose of the Greek temple was to | honor the main gods of the polis |
| agora | The central marketplace with entertainment and social aspects |
| Philosophy | answered the unanswerable without religion |
| Lycurgus | creator of Spartan constitution |
| Odyssey | by Homer, look at the private lives of the Greeks. |
| Archaic Age | set up a foundation for the Classical Age |
| Idea of Hellas greatly affected by | geography of Greece |
| 5 ephors | elected to advise the dual kingship in Sparta |
| homoioi | similar and equal |
| chattel slavery | slavery as a business |
| Ezra | revived traditional Jewish festivals and daily prayer readings in Israel. |
| Muslims trace their bloodline back to Abraham through | Ishmael |
| naditu | Babylonian women who worked for temple and remained unmarried |
| concubine | used as second wife in Babylonian society |
| Most important characteristic of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | monotheism |
| moshkenu | male and female laborers who worked for the temple |
| Monotheism changed the view of life from | cyclical to linear |
| "the man after God's heart" | David |
| animism | religious practice of worshipping nature spirits |
| Historical books of the Bible | Joshua, Judges, Kings, Samuel |
| Northern Israel compared to Judah | Israel was cosmopolitan with muli-ethnic populations, and Judah was more rural with farmers. |
| Semitic languages | Arabic Hebrew and Akkadian |
| Yahweh cult centered around this city | Jerusalem |
| Jewish social structure was... | constructed from myth and history |
| Surplus in agrilculture lead to... | population growth and job specialization. |
| Shift from foraging to farming occurred in... | Neolithic period |
| Jewish king known for building projects | Solomon |
| They conquered northern Israel | Assyrians |
| Two rivers in Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Significant feature of Catalhoyuk that differed from Jericho | no public buildings |
| First evidence of record keeping | clay tokens |
| Fertile Crescent made up of | Levant, North and Mesopotamia, South |
| First emperor of "civilized" world | Sargon |
| Mesolithic Age | climatic instability at the end of the Ice Age |
| Move from foraging to farming caused people to lead a more.... | sedentary lifestyle |
| Houses of Catalhoyuk... | similar building styles and floors |
| Bronze used for | weapons and tools |
| Most famous early written story.. | The epic of Gilgamesh |
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