Ancient History flashcards

48 WACE Ancient History cards across 2 modules (21 definitions, 27 key facts, 0 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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Analysing ancient sources and historiography: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define Reliability versus usefulness
Reliability asks how accurate or trustworthy a source is as a record of what it claims. Usefulness asks how valuable it is for answering a particular historical question, which can be high even when reliability is low.
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Akhenaten and the Amarna revolution: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define Henotheism versus monotheism at Amarna
Monotheism is the belief in one god alone; henotheism is the worship of one god as supreme while not denying others exist.
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New Kingdom economy, trade and temple estates: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define Temple estates
Temple estates were the lands, livestock, workshops and labour forces owned by the temples, above all the temple of Amun at Karnak.
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Horemheb and the military reassertion: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define Damnatio memoriae of the Amarna kings
Damnatio memoriae is the deliberate erasure of a person from the historical record by destroying or usurping their monuments and omitting their name.
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Hatshepsut as a significant individual: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define The erasure (damnatio) of Hatshepsut
Some time after her death many of Hatshepsut's images, names and monuments were defaced or replaced, apparently on the orders of, or during the reign of, Tuthmosis III. Historians debate whether this was a delayed political move to secure the succession of his own line, a religious act, or something else.
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Tutankhamun and the restoration: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define An intact archaeological context
An intact context is an undisturbed find in which objects remain as they were originally deposited, undamaged by later robbery or reuse.
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New Kingdom social structure and administration: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define Maat
Maat was the Egyptian concept of truth, justice, order and cosmic balance, personified as a goddess. Maintaining maat against chaos was the pharaoh's central duty and the justification for royal authority.
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Pericles, democracy and the Athenian empire: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define The strategoi and Periclean leadership
The strategoi were the ten annually elected generals who led Athens in war and, in practice, in politics, since they could be re-elected indefinitely. Pericles exercised his long ascendancy by repeated election as strategos combined with his unrivalled influence in the assembly.
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New Kingdom religion, Amun and the priesthood: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define The priesthood of Amun
The priesthood of Amun was the body of priests, headed by the High Priest of Amun (the first prophet of Amun), who served the cult and managed the vast estates of the temple at Karnak.
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The Sicilian Expedition and the fall of Athens: WACE Year 12 Ancient History
Define The role of Persian funding
Persian funding was the decisive external factor in the war's outcome. Sparta, traditionally a land power, could not match the Athenian fleet without money to build ships and pay rowers.