World Lit Set 4

Front 1

What allowed for the growth and support of cities and the development of urban culture starting in the fourth millennium BC?

Back 1

rich agricultural bse (fertile land)

Front 2

What did citizens of the newly formed cities of the ancient world think about their cities?

Back 2

that they were the greatest of human achievements

Front 3

In what region did the semi nomadic herdsment live?

Back 3

palestine or Canaan - northeast of Egypt and west of Mesopotamia

Front 4

How did Semi nomadic herdsmen view the following: cities' kings, their own clan leaders?

Back 4

A) opressive tyrants

B) fatherlike leaders

C) emblem of human pride (rightly destroyed by God)

Front 5

How did Babylonians view the following: their city, tower of bable?

Back 5

A) Cornerstone of Civilization

B)meeting place of gods and mortals, a temple

Front 6

What did the polytheistic societies those who worshipped many gods develop?

Back 6

elaborate patheons of gods and godesses

Front 7

What were each of the gods and goddesses associated with?

Back 7

particular city, natural force, or animal

Front 8

In the Near East as in medieval and early modern Europe, noble and espeically royal women could do what?

Back 8

wield substantial power

Front 9

In Hebrew wisdom tradition, wisdom itself - a femal noun in Hebrew, hokmah - came to be personifed as what?

Back 9

prime agent of God's guiding power

Front 10

What book contained the only ancient Near Eastern literature that anyone could read for nearly two thousand years?

Back 10

The Bible

Front 11

The text explains that the term Near East was coined by the 19th centuryarcheologists and scholars who sought out and deciphered these works. The people themselves, for example the residents of cities like Bablylon and Thebes, typically though of themselves as living where?

Back 11

in the center of the world

Front 12

What were the earliest writings in the Greek world written on?

Back 12

clay tablets

Front 13

Who were the Minoans?

Back 13

indigenous people of Crete

Front 14

Who were the Mycenaeans?

Back 14

Greek-speakers

Front 15

When were tales like the Iliad, Odyssey, and Oedipus first writeen down?

Back 15

18th century

Front 16

From whom did the Greeks borrow an alphabet and what did they add to it to create a concise writing system that serves as the basis of our modern Roman alphabet?

Back 16

The Phoenicians, vowels

Front 17

What does Hesoid's Tjepgpmu tell the story of?

Back 17

succession of gods

Front 18

In addition to may gods and goddesses what else does Greek polytheism encompass?

Back 18

many forms of worship including animal sacrafice, ecstatic dancing, and ritualized sexual intercourse

Front 19

Some of the most beautiful poems, before there were poems in a purely literary sense are what?

Back 19

hymns in celebration or praise of the gods

Front 20

What is a polis?

Back 20

city-state