Midterm - History 1510 with Shepherd at Oakland Community College

Agamemnon

Former king of Mycenae, brother of Menelaus, and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy. Odysseus encounters his spirit in Hades. He was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, upon his return from the war. He was later avenged by his son Orestes. Their story is constantly repeated in the Odyssey to offer an inverted image of the fortunes of Odysseus and Telemachus.

Agricultural Revolution

This revolution led to more food being produced and distributed to the people of Europe. Also, it contains the end of the little ice age, selective breeding, wetland drainage, and many other advancements.

Ahimsa

The Hindu and Buddhist doctrine of refraining from harming any living being

Cuneiform

“wedge-shaped.” A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.

divination

the practice of seeking to foretell future events by interpreting divine signs, which could appear in various forms, such as in the entrails of animals, in patterns in smoke, or in dreams.

Hominid

the earliest humanlike creatures. They flourished in East and South Africa as long as three to four million years ago.

Mesolithic Age

Monotheism

Neolithic Revolution

Paleolithic Age

Pharaoh

Polytheism

satrap

theocracy

ziggurat

Zoroastrianism

jati

karma

kshatriya

Buddhism

dharma

Jainism

Middle Path

Nirvana

raja

Dao

Confucianism

Daoism

five relationships

mandate of Heaven

Epicureanism

helots

mystery religions

Sophists

Stoicism

Earliest Cities: Sumarian

What was "new" in the Neolithic era?

Mesolithic Era

All of the following locations are examples of early civilizations except

The individual who established an empire in Mesopotamia around 2340 B.C.E. was:

The ruler who called himself "the sun of Babylon, the king who made the four quarters of the world subservient" to him was:

The ancient people who devised a number system based on 60 were the:

The pharaohs took the title of the "Son of

Ancient Egyptians saw which of the following as a symbol of resurrection?

Invaded Egypt in 1650 BCE and ending the middle kingdom?

An outstanding feature of late Neolithic Europe were the?

Which of the following was not an Indo-European language?

he Indo-European peoples who moved into Asia Minor around 1750 B.C.E., and who established an empire by 1600 were the:

All of the following are correct about the Assyrians except they:

The sacred book of Zoroastrianism was:

Persian Religion

Great House

Summarians

Zao Dynasty

Osiris

the hindu god known as the preserver is

The warrior class in Aryan society was the:

Alexander the Great

Archilochus

Gilgimesh

Archimedes

arete

aristotle

anti sophists

Arjuna

Arthur Evans

Bronze Age

Bhagavad Gita

Catal Huyuk

Cleisthenes

Dharma

Enkidu

legalism

Xhang

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