Chapter 3 Study Guide: The Mediterranean and the Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E.
I. KEY TERMS:
1. Iron Age: ___________________________________________________________________________
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2. Hittites: ____________________________________________________________________________
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3. Hatshepsut: _________________________________________________________________________
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4. Akhenaten: _________________________________________________________________________
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5. Ramesses II: ________________________________________________________________________
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6. Minoan: ____________________________________________________________________________
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7. Mycenae: ___________________________________________________________________________
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8. Shaft graves: _________________________________________________________________________
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9. Linear B: ____________________________________________________________________________
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10. Neo-Assyrian Empire: ________________________________________________________________
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11. Urartu: _____________________________________________________________________________
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12. Mass deportation: ____________________________________________________________________
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13. Hebrews: ___________________________________________________________________________
14. Hebrew Bible: _______________________________________________________________________
15. Semitic: ____________________________________________________________________________
16. Abraham: ____________________________________________________________________________
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17. Covenant: _____________________________________________________________________________
18. Yahweh: ______________________________________________________________________________
19. Moses: _______________________________________________________________________________
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20. Canaan: _______________________________________________________________________________
21. David: ________________________________________________________________________________
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22. Solomon: ______________________________________________________________________________
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23. Sabbath: _______________________________________________________________________________
24. Diaspora: ______________________________________________________________________________
25. Phoenicians: ____________________________________________________________________________
26. Carthage: ______________________________________________________________________________
27. Bible: _________________________________________________________________________________
28. Chaldean: ______________________________________________________________________________
29. Neo-Babylonian: ________________________________________________________________________
II. FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS (FRQs):
1. What factors led to Egypt losing its isolationist perspective?
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2. Summarize / describe the following: Minoans, Mycenaean Greece, and the fall of Late Bronze Age
civilizations.
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3. Why have historians called the Assyrian Empire of the first millennium B.C.E. the first true empire?
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4. How were the Assyrians able to conquer and control such a large and diverse empire?
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5. Trace the migrations of the people ultimately known as the Israelites, noting the causes and consequences of
those migrations.
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6. Describe the nature and extent of Phoenician expansion in the Mediterranean.
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7. What is meant by the description of Carthage as a commercial empire?
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8. Compare the rise of civilizations in the Aegean Sea area with the rise of earlier civilizations.
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