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  1. 1The civilization was named after the legendary king Minos.Minoan
  2. 2Where can you find the Minoan Civilization?Crete
  3. 3People on Crete were working with bronze and gold and developed a system of writing.True
  4. 4Where does Minoans primarily send their products?Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, Egypt
  5. 5Why did the Minoans Civilization began to declined?Because of a disastrous
    earthquake and volcanic eruptions
  6. 6Minoans built magnificent palaces that house royal families, priests, and government officials.True
  7. 7One notable structure built by Minoans was the Palace at?Knossos
  8. 8It was like a small city with more than 800 rooms. Its walls were brightly painted with lively scenes showing men and women athletes, fanciful animals, and scenes from daily lifeKnossos
  9. 9Described as Greek-speaking Indo - European tribes who moved into the mountainous Greek peninsula about 1900 B.CMycenaean
  10. 10Who ruled walled cities built around their palaces at Mycenae?Warrior – kings
  11. 11This civilization was first investigated by archaeologists and believed to be the richest and most important town.Mycenaean
  12. 12What region did the Mycenean controlled?Mycenae may have brought several kingdoms
    together in an empire that controlled the Aegean region.
  13. 13Explain the Dark AgeThis is not the Dark Age you might be thinking of. This period in the history of the Ancient
    civilization was referring to the time where although it is established to have device a writing
    system but was unfortunately unable to keep their records. It is believed to be caused by
    frequent war among the kingdoms
  14. 14Who are the Dorians?Spoke Greek, they were illiterate, and the art
    of writing was forgotten. Spartan Polis.
  15. 15The time that the great age of Greek civilization began to take shapeHellenic Civilization
  16. 16In the age of Hellenic Civilization, _____ was the name for their country.Hellas
  17. 17What kind of skills did the Hellenistic people acquired from Mycenean?pottery making and metalworking
  18. 18Because the coastline had excellent harbors, the Greeks became fishermen and tradersTrue
  19. 19In Greek beliefs, where does the Gods located?Mount Olympus
  20. 20Enumerate the main 12 gods and goddesses12
  21. 21Greeks believe that Gods arefar more different who can't experience suffering.False
    Different from Egypt and Near
    East, the Greeks thought of the Gods as if they were family whose members experienced joy
    and sorrow just as human beings did. Built temples to the Gods and honored them with
    festivals.
  22. 22Who wrote two great epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, helped to shape the Greek outlook and character?Homer
  23. 23What were the two leading state inSpartan and Athens
  24. 24Grew up on fort set on hill or mountaintops (the fort was for protectionPolis
  25. 25The largest city-state that covered 3, 200 square milesSparta
  26. 26How many male citizens in the middle of the fifth century B.C did the Athens had?35,000
  27. 27The center of Greek community life. People gathered in an open market-place to conduct business and discuss politics. Shrines or temples usually were built on a hilltop along with the fortress.Polis
  28. 28Occupied part of the southern peninsula of Greece, the PeloponnesusDorians
  29. 29Who are the Helots?Helots work for the polis, not for an
    individual
  30. 30At what age does the Spartan boy moved into a military barracks?7
  31. 31Became the commercial and cultural center of GreeceAthens
  32. 32They came to look upon themselves as the teachers of all GreeceAthenians
  33. 33The Greeks were the first people in history to establish a government in which free citizens ruled themselves.True
  34. 34An aristocrat drew up the first written laws for Athens. Greeks laws were harsh and his code did not change themDraco
  35. 35Is a statesman, poet, merchant who was regarded as wise and just. He canceled the debts of the poor, freed those who have been slaved from debt, and made slavery for debt illegal.Solon
  36. 36Became head of a political party that opposed tyrantsCleisthenes
  37. 37Cleisthenes divided Athens into ten areas called___?Demes
  38. 38How many votes were needed to cast against a particular person to forced him/ her to leave Athens for ten years?6,000
  39. 39Because votes were written on a piece of broken pottery called ostrakon, this practice became known as____?ostracism
  40. 40Term for the non-Greeks?barbarians
  41. 41The man who ran for a long distance and died after he successfully sent the message that the Persians got defeatedPhidippides
  42. 42Son of Darius, unwillingness to admit defeat after ten years they set out with a large army to conquer all GreeceXerxes
  43. 43The traitor showed the Persian a path around the pass of ThermopylaeEphialtes of Trachis
  44. 44King from Sparta who led Greece against Persian?Leonidas
  45. 45The Athenians built a strong new navy on the advice of their leader____?Themistocles
  46. 46How many allies did the Athenians had after the Persian war?With more than
    150 other city-states of Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea
  47. 47He lead Athens from 460 B.C. to 429 B.C. and was a firm believer in people’s participation in Government.Pericles
  48. 48Greek women have the opportunity to studyFalse.
    Greek women received no formal
    education. Training in household skills was considered the only education
  49. 49Explain the Peloponnesus warTo resist the might of Athens and its allies, Sparta found allies among the other city-state in
    Peloponnesus. In 431 B.C., the Peloponnesus war broke out between Athens and Sparta.
    27 years of the Peloponnesian war involved many cities – states
    weakening Greece. Democracy declined even in Athens, a small group of nobles ran the city.
  50. 50Became the King of Macedonia. He built a strong army and won the support of some city-states that opposed AthensKing Philip
  51. 51He's the one who warned the citizen of Athens that King Philip's force will them but to no availDemosthenes
  52. 52The son of King PhilipAlexander
  53. 53How did Alexander the Great died?He died because of a fever while he's Babylon
  54. 54One of the prominent city in Egypt that was named after Alexander the GreatAlexandria
  55. 55Explain what happened to the places that Alexander the Great conquered after his deathNone of his generals was
    able to control the vast empire and it broke into separate kingdoms. Lysimachus – took Thrace
    and much of Asia Minor, Cassander – Macedonia and Greece, Ptolemy I – ruled Egypt,
    Palestine, Cilicia, Petra, and Cyprus.
  56. 56Ruled the reminder of Asia and founded the Seleucid Empire which was comprised of Mesopotamia, Levant, Persia, and part of India.Seleucos I
  57. 57The last native Egyptian pharaoh, who had fled Egypt in the face of Persian aggressionNectanebo II
  58. 58The Ptolemaic Dynasty remained in power for roughly 500 years and manifest itself through a mixture of Egyptian and Greek-Macedonian traditions.False
    300 years
  59. 59Founded on 7 April 331 BC, was ‘the crossroads of the whole world’Alexandria
  60. 60The earliest civilization in the Americas and the people in what is now Mexico.Olmec
  61. 61What does Olmecs means?Rubber
    people
  62. 62The number system that Olmecs used was based on a combination of only three symbols, the ___,___ and ____A dot
    standing for one, a bar for five, and zero.
  63. 63A ceremonial ball game whose players could not touch the hard rubber instead had to use their elbows and hips in trying to send the ball through a small stone ring set sideways in a high wall.Pok-a-Tok
  64. 64Olmec culture is considered as the parent cultureTrue
  65. 65_____ means where the Gods liveTeotihuacans
  66. 66Teotihuacans most important GodQuetzalcoatl
  67. 67They built the largest trade empire in Mesoamerica.Teotihuacans
  68. 68Mesoamerica’s first city was built around____100 A.D
  69. 69Their calendar was one of the most accurate ever developed. Had 365 days, the last five considered unluckyMaya
  70. 70Emerged in Yucatan Peninsula, Uaxactun, Tikal. Halach uinic – the true man, leaders are absolute rulers,Maya
  71. 71Maya priest was also considered as?record keepers and teachers
  72. 72Explain the Social Stratification of MayanThe social stratification is composed of the upper class – priests,
    nobles, warriors, and lower-class – peasants
  73. 73The emphasis in Maya society was on respect for traditionTrue
  74. 74They are once a nomadic tribe from the drylands to the north that slowly migrated southward to the valley of MexicoAztec and Inca
  75. 75Aztec and Inca built a village calledTenochtitlan
  76. 76The best-known Aztec codex is the?Codex Mendoza
  77. 77Was the capital of a small empire in central Mexico, and its merchants traded with cities all over Mesoamerica, including the Classic-period Maya cities.Teotihuacan
  78. 78In Aztecs social organization____occupied the highest level of the nobilityThe king (tlatoani)
  79. 79Among Aztecs' social organization nobles were called?pilli
  80. 80Among Aztecs' social organization, most of the commoners belonged to a ____, a territorially-based social group whose members cooperated economically and socially.calpolli
  81. 81Among Aztecs' social organization, at the bottom of the social scale were?slaves (tlacotin)
  82. 82The Aztec economy was based on?agriculture
  83. 83The basic Aztec political unit was the _______, ruled by a king, or tlatoanicity-state, or altepetl,
  84. 84The strongest Aztec enemy was the _______, a powerful state centered at the city of Tzintzuntzan west of central MexicoTarascan empire
  85. 85Aztec religion was?polytheistic, but deities did not exist as discrete, easily
    identifiable individuals. The hundreds of named gods and goddesses were seen
    more as forces or spirits, each possessing a number of distinctive attributes of
    clothing and regalia. Stone or clay sculptures would be dressed with a deity's
    clothing and thereby became its incarnation
  86. 86Pictorial art in a style known as the Mixteca-Puebla style was expressed in the codices and in mural paintings.Mixteca-Puebla
  87. 87Comes from the word Sabana which means treeless.Savannah
  88. 88The largest desert on earthSahara
  89. 89A region near the Nile River was inhabited by the people of Kush, they have darker skin than the EgyptiansNubia
  90. 90He was known for trading and also a civilization in Africa that maintain its religion over time – Christianity.Axum
  91. 91The King of Gold in EgyptGhana
  92. 92People were the pioneers of ironworkingBantu

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