HIST 111 Midterm: Hist 111 Midterm pt. 1 Study Guide with own answers
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Cuneiform cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient sumerians of mesopotamia c. Hittites - the hittites were an ancient anatolian people 1600 bc fought egypt in battle of kadesh. Sea peoples - mediterranean pirates c. 1276-1178 bce, fought egypt. It contains 22 letters, all of which are consonants. Homer - is best known as the author of the iliad and the odyssey. Greek poet. born between 12th and 8 th cent. Achilles - a greek hero of the trojan war and the central character and greatest warrior of homer"s iliad. Minoan and mycenaean civilization middle to late bronze age. From the 15th to the 13th century bce. Mycenaeans were influenced by the earlier minoan civilization. Polis - a city state in ancient greece. Helot - a member of a class of serfs in ancient sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. Marathon - during the first persian invasion of greece.
