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The Med Pt 1

Horizontales
Ruled by the Odrysian kingdom during the Classical and Hellenistic eras, and briefly by the Greek Diadochi ruler Lysimachus, but became a client state of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire as the Sapaean kingdom. Roman emperor Claudius annexed the kingdom as a Roman province in 46 AD.
______ of Alexandria. Sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria. A lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC).[2] It has been estimated to have been at least 100 metres (330 ft) in overall height.It was one of the tallest man-made structures in the world.
Dominate culture until Nabopolasser seized power and captured in 605BC
An important battle, about 605 BC, between the Babylonians and Egyptians, mentioned in the Bible (Jer. 46:2, 2 Chron. 35:20)
Held close diplomatic contacts with king Ahab of Israel. 1 Kings 16:31 relates that his daughter Jezebel married Ahab (874 – 853 BC), and Phoenician influence in Samaria and the other Israelite cities was extensive. In the First Kings passage, he is labeled king of the Sidonians. At this time Tyre and Sidon were consolidated into one kingdom.
Capital of Assyria, now called Mosul and the burial place of the Biblical prophet Jonah
_____ _____of Babylon. They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks. It was said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon. Now historical and archeological evidence places them in Nineveh Assyria
Major river of Palestine
An ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, It spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain).
A Dominate culture, home of the Pharaohs (Task Masters) and conquered more time then can be counted
Major river of Egypt
______ at Halicarnassus. A tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.[1][2] Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.
Dominate culture to the north of Assyria and occupied most of modern day Turkey and a major player in ancient politics for the Middle East.
Dominate culture until Alexander the Great seized power in 331BC and ended the Acheamenid Empire.
The Statue of _____ at Olympia. The statue was a chryselephantine sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels on a wooden framework.He sat on a painted cedarwood throne ornamented with ebony, ivory, gold, and precious stones. The statue was lost and destroyed before the end of the 6th century AD, with conflicting accounts of the date and circumstances. Details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and representations on coins and art.
______ of Rhodes. A statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. It was constructed to celebrate the successful defence of Rhodes city against an attack by Demetrius I of Macedon, who had besieged it for a year with a large army and navy.
Verticales
Temple of _____. located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). By AD 401 it is believed it had been ruined or destroyed. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site.
A clever and enterprising woman who flees her ruthless and autocratic brother, Pygmalion, after discovering that he was responsible for her husband's death. A wise leader, she founds Carthage and makes it prosper.
One of two major rivers, the northern river, which runs through Babylon and Assyria
The capital and largest city of Greece. A major coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. Its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, but modern scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city.
The king of Tyre from 831 to 785 BCE and a son of King Mattan I (840–832 BC). During his reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus, Sardinia (see Nora Stone discussion below), and, according to tradition, Carthage.
One of two major rivers , the southern river, which supported trade routes to the west and led to Palestine and Egypt.
Capital of Persia
Dominate culture in the Middle East which was conquered by Cyrus the Great and his Medo-Persian Coalition.
________ of Giza Egypt. The earliest of the wonders to be completed, as well as the only one that still exists in the present day.
An ancient civilization created a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands, its territory covered, at its greatest extent, roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western Campania.