HI 101 Midterm - Mr Goodson
A.D. 320-535
Gupta dynasty in India/Golden Age of India
1850 B.C.
Hebrew sojourn in Egypt
The Greeks of classical times who made such great contributions to Western civilization
Hellenes
What did Demosthenes organize
Hellenic League
Who was the Greek Father of History
Herodotus
The Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Who was the first great Greek poet?
Homer
Wrote Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
1500 B.C.
Invention of Sinai Script/Exodus/Ten Commandments
Scottish geologist who conducted the first scientific investigation of the Great Rift Valley
John Walter Gregory
Which desert spans much of South Africa?
Kalahari Desert
Greatest ruler of Benin
King Ewuare
The greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior
Kingdom of Cush
The world's longest and second deepest lake
Lake Tanganyika
Africa's largest lake
Lake Victoria
Which empire dominated most of what is now Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal?
Mali Empire
Who was the ruler of the Mali Empire?
Mansa Musa
The first important European civilization after the Flood
Minoans
Who migrated to Africa from Babel
Mizraim Phut Cush
A.D. 1200s-1368
Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan/Yuan dynasty in China/Marco Polo travels to the Orient
Africa's tallest mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro
The greeks of the Trojan War mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey
Mycenae
1580 B.C.
New Kingdom established/height of Egyptian Empire
The rivers that run westward into the Atlantic Ocean
Niger Congo Orange
World's longest river
Nile
30 b.c.
Octavian(Caesar Augustus) becomes first emperor of Rome/ Beginning of Pax Romana
The period between the Olympics
Olympiad
431-404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
Who brought Arthenian democracy to its fullest measure?
Pericles
Who became the king of Macedonia in 359 BC
Philip II
What is the Sahara called in Scriptures
Phut Put Lybra
Overcame Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule over Egypt.
Piankhi
A.D. 700
Piankhi establishes Cushite rule over Egypt
Who said "Man is the measure of all things"
Protagoras
1015-975 B.C.
Reign of King Solomon in Israel
A.D. 1500
Renaissance/Reformation
2000bc
Rise of Aegean civilization/Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete.
1500 b.c.
Rise of the Huang He Valley Civilization in China
2000 b.c.
Rise of the Indus Valley Civilization in India
509 B.C.
Roman Republic established
The world's largest desert
Sahara Desert
Oldest surviving Christian hymn
Shepherd of Tender Youth
Is remembered as the man who carried Jesus's cross
Simon of Cyrene
Who was elected archon after Draco
Solon
Third great African kingdom
Songhai Empire
Who wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone?
Sophocles
What was Alexanders most lasting contribution to world history that helped prepare the world for the coming of Jesus Christ?
Spreading Greek culture
Two church fathers in Carthage who were martyred
Tertullian Cyprian
What was the important trading center of the Mali Empire
Timbuktu
What was the turning point in world history
Xerxes' defeat in Greece
Rivers that empty into the Indian Ocean
Zambezi Limpopo
The belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits
animism
Rule by the best
aristocracy
rule by the many or the common people
democracy
The citizens made the big decisions of government directly themselves, not indirectly through representatives
direct democracy
Rule by one
monarchy
rule by the few
oligarchy
Citizens elect a few men who represent them in the government
representative democracy
what were helots
slaves
Only archons were eligible for
the Court of Areopagus
What Athenian temple was dedicated to Athena?
the Parthenon
What happened after the battle of Ipsus
the empire was divided among four generals
What was Sparta's chief accomplishment
the formation of the Peloponnesian League
rule by one man who has seized power by rebellion and insurrection
tyranny
Date for the Battle of Plataea
479 B.C.
Greco-Persian Wars date
490 B.C.
Date of the first year of the Olympic Games
776 B.C.
2000 B.C.
Abraham is called out of Ur/Epic of Gilgamesh/Sumer is conquered by Amorites and Elamites
Known for introducing fables
Aesop
What happened in 334 BC
Alexander crossed the Hellespont
Who took the throne after Philip II
Alexander the Great
What cities owned by Rome became important and influential centers of Christianity.
Alexandria Cyrene Carthage
Used his plays to satirize political and cultural life in Athens
Aristophanes
Two greatest North African Christians
Athanasius Augustine
Africa's longest mountain range
Atlas Mountains
700 B.C.
Beginning of Hellenic (classical) Age of Greece
255-206 B.C.
Ch'in dynasty in China/Great Wall of China
What tyrant practiced ostracism?
Cleisthenes
1100 B.C.
Collapse of New Kingdom/decline of Egypt/beginning of foreign invasions and domination
721 B.C.
Conquest of Northern Kingdom of Israel by Assyrians.
Who was the monarch of Greece advised by
Council of Elders and Assembly
4000 B.C.
Creation/Fall of Mankind
1100 bc
Decline of Egypt/rise of the Kingdom of Cush
Who urged the Greeks to unite against the Macedonian threat?
Demosthenes
586 B.C.
Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar/ Babylonian Captivity of the Jews
What code of Athens was merciless and "written in blood"
Draco's Code
What Cushite helped the prophet Jeremiah when he was cast into prison?
Ebed-melech
Two slaves who preached the gospel in Ethiopia
Edesius Frumentius
332-323 B.C.
Egypt conquered by Alexander the Great/Ptolemy establishes Hellenistic
30 B.C.
Egypt conquered by Romans
A.D. 476
End of Western Roman Empire
First African on record to become a Christian
Ethiopian eunuch
A.D. 35
Ethiopian eunuch becomes first-known African convert to Christianity
612 B.C.
Fall of Nineveh
A.D. 500
Fall of the Roman Empire
2300 B.C.
Flood
753 B.C.
Founding of Rome
What empire dominated trade across the Sahara?
Ghana Empire
The age of Pericles is often referred to as the
Golden Age of Greece
the largest rift in the earth's surface
Great Rift Valley
