Kayden Part 2 Chapters 1-4 Test

Great Persian Achievements

• Royal Road

• quanats

• 50 mile canal

• The Great Wall

Hittites

• known for iron weapons

• originated in Anatolia

• in modern day Turkey

• a farming village

Phoeniecians

• known as purple people

• developed seaworthy boats from cedar

• known for their alphabet

• traced ancestry back to Lucy

Hebrew leader who gave his people the 10 commandments

• Moses

• Noah

• Jesus

• Pharoah

Israel's 2 Kings during its greatest height

• David

• Solomon

• Pilot

• Saul

Crucial factor in Egyptian history

• Predictable flooding of the Nile

• severe droughts

• desert bloom

• change of power from pharaohs to kings

natural barriers that protected Egypt from invasion

• Sahara/Libyan desert

• Mediterranean Sea

• Red Sea

• Cataracts (waterfalls)

Type of writing in royal context

• hieroglyphics (sacred carving)

• Demotic writing (popular)

Type of writing for record keeping, etc

• hieroglyphics (sacred carving)

• demotic writing (popular)

Reasons for the big states of the river basin to collapse around 2000 BCE

• rain washed away layers of topsoil

• faring degraded the soil

• drought cycle

• transhumant migrants migrated to urban centers