AP World History
Chapter 3 – Mediterranean & Middle East Med
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Chapter Objectives: When you finish studying this chapter each student should:
Understand the environmental, technological, political, and cultural factors that led societies in the Mediterranean and Middle
East to develop their distinctive institutions and values.
Be able to identify the geographical locations and the fundamental characteristics and historical development of these societies
and understand the role of migrations in their development.
Be able to compare the structure and the goals and analyze the wider influence of the Assyrian and Carthaginian empires.
Explain why some of these societies were destroyed or assimilated while others survived.
Section 1: Cosmopolitan Middle East
1. What are the advantages of iron over bronze?
2. The Late Bronze Age in the Middle East was a “cosmopolitan era” because?
3. The foremost power in Anatolia from 1700 to 1200 B.C.E. was who?
4. During the Late Bronze Age, important Middle Eastern states shared a vital interest in the trade of what?
5. After the Middle Kingdom, Egypt came under foreign domination for the first time under who?
6. The era of the New Kingdom in Egypt is characterized by restoration of Egyptian rule and what else?
7. The pharaoh Akhenaten is credited by many historians with doing what?
8. Why is the pharaoh Tutankhamun famous?
9. Transportation in Western Asia was revolutionized in the Later Bronze Age by the introduction of what animal?
Section 2: The Aegean World
10. Where was the Minoan civilization established?
11. Although Minoan writing is undeciphered, Minoan artifacts indicate what?
12. The Minoan civilization collapsed around what year?
13. What did German businessman Heinrich Schleiman find in 1876?
14. The rise of Mycenaean civilization can be explained primarily through cultural influence from where?
15. The myths and literary practices of the Mycenaeans may be traced through was literary work?
16. Early Greek communities such as Mycenae, Thebes, and Pylos were organized around what?
17. Archaeologists found over 4,000 baked clay tablets in what Mycenaean script?
18. How can early Greek cultural unity best be explained?
19. Long distance contact in the Mediterranean lands was based on what?
20. From the pots discovered, historians conclude that Greek trade included what foods?
21. Many important centers of the Middle East and Mediterranean region were destroyed around what year?
Section 3: The Assyrian Empire
22. Where was the homeland of the Assyrian Empire located?
23. The Neo-Assyrian Empire of the early first millennium was the first to do what?
24. Who was at the head of the Assyrian state religion?
25. Before the Assyrian king made a state decision he did what?
26. Why were the Assyrians able to conquer vast territories?
27. Why did the Assyrian government used mass deportation?
28. What were the three classes of Assyrian society?
Section 4: Israel
29. Where can information about ancient Israel can be found?
30. What type of language is Hebrew?
31. The Judeo-Christian story begins with what?
32. The Israelites became devoted to their stern and warlike god, Yahweh, during what events?
33. The basic tenets of Jewish belief and practice prohibit what?
34. Why did the city of Jerusalem become important when the Ark of the Covenant arrived?
35. In the time of King Solomon, the commercial wealth of Israel was derived from trade with who?
36. Solomon began an ambitious building project to create what?
37. Women in Israelite society were respected because they did what?
38. Why was the synagogue important to Jews?
39. Diaspora means what?
40. Which rituals aided the Jews in maintaining a strong cultural identity after the loss of their state?
Section 5: Phoenicia & the Mediterranean
41. Despite a complex story of migrations and invasions, why did the Phoenician economy flourish?
42. The Phoenicians developed a system of writing based on what?
43. What made certain Phoenician textiles unique?
44. Phoenician trade and colonization in the western Mediterranean often brought the Phoenicians into conflict with who?
45. Carthage was founded by peoples migrating from where?
46. Describe the foreign policy of the Carthaginian state?
47. Carthaginian explorer Hanno sailed where?
Section 6: Failure and transformation
48. Why & how did the Assyrian Empire collapse?
49. Who succeeded the Assyrians as the rulers of the Middle East?
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