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Alphabet

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Writing system in which each symbol represents a single basic sound such as a constant or vowel

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Colony

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A territory settled and ruled by people from another land

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Fertile Crescent

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A region of the Middle East named for church soils and golden wheat Fields

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Mesopotamia

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Means “between the rivers”

the area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates river

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Sumer

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A region where the world’s first civilization developed in south eastern Mesopotamia

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The epic Gilgamesh

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A Mesopotamian narrative poem which was first told orally in Sumer, describes the great flood that destroys the world

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Hierarchy

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A system of ranking groups

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Ziggurat

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A large stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to the city’s chief god or goddess

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Cuneiform

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The earliest known writing

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Sargon

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The ruler of Akkad invaded and conquered the neighboring city-states of Sumer. Built the first empire known to history (2300 BC)

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Hammurabi

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King of Babylon (1790 BC) brought much if Mesopotamia under the control of his empire

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Codify

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Arrange and set down in writings all of the laws that would govern a state

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Criminal law

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This branch deals with offenses against others (robbery, murder)

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Second king of Babylon

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Barter economy

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Exchange of one set of goods or services for another

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Money economy

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Goods and services are paid for through the exchange of some token of an agreed value, such as a coin or a bill

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Zoroaster

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A Persian thinker who put religious beliefs forward and helped to unite the empire (1600 BC)

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Civil law

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This branch deals with private rights and matters (taxes, marriage, property)

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Cataract

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Waterfall

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Delta

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A triangular area of marsh-land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers

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Dynasty

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Ruling family

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Pharoahs

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Egyptian kings

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Bureaucracy

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A system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority

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Vizier

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Chief minister

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Hatshepsut
Egypt's first female leader
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Thutmose III
Hatshepsut's step son | Took over as pharaoh
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Ramses II
Egyptian leader for 65 years | Best known ruler of Egypt
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Amon-Re
Great lord of the gods
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Osiris
God who (according to story) got killed by bro Set Became god of the dead
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Isis
Goddess (according to story) Osiris' wife reassembled him and brought Osiris back to life
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Akhenaton
Pharaoh who worshipped a different god
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Mummification
Preservation of dead bodies by embalming then and wrapping them in cloth
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Hieroglyphics
A system in which symbols or pics represent objects concepts or sounds
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Papyrus
A plant that grows along the banks of Nile
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Deciphering
Figuring out the meaning of
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Rosetta Stone
Black stone that had same passage carved in hieroglyphics, demotic script, and Greek
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Monotheistic
Believing there's only one god
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Torah
Hebrews most sacred text
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Abraham
According to Torah - lived it Ur in Mesopotamia, left, migrated to Canaan Considered farther of the Israelite people
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Covenant
Binding agreement
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Moses
Israelite renewed god's covenant, lead Israelite to Canaan (their "promise land")
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David
Second king of Israel, united 12 Israel tribes to 1 nation
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Solomon
David's son, became king, turned Jerusalem into impressive capital
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Patriarchal
The men ruled and had most authority
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Sabbath
Holy day for rest and worship
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Prophet
Spiritual leaders to interpret God's will
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Ethics
Moral standards of behavior
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Dispora
The spreading out of the Jews
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What did the Paleolithic humans accomplish?
Tools fire language wheel sailboat & left Africa
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What's the significance of funerals and ceremonial burials?
There was religion
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What year did agriculture come to be?
10,000 BCE
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What year was writing invented?
4,000 BCE
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What year were the pyramids built?
~2700 BCE
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The Neolithic age a.k.a. the new Stone Age
Gradual shift from Nomadic to settled Gathering to agriculture
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What year was the most recent ice age?
70,000 B.C.E. to 10,000 B.C.E.
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Artifact
Man-made things
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Prehistory
Before written records
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History
Written records of the past
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Cultural institutions
Family government education Economy and religion
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What four things happened because of the agricultural revolution
Planting crops food surplus settled domestication of animals
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Where were the first towns and cities formed
Middle East turkey and Iraq
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What are the three main characteristics of a civilization
Written records specialization of work technology
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Archaic
Oldest historical period | First known
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Pharaoh
King thought of as a God, priest king
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When did the old Kingdom take place?
Around 2700 B.C.E.
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When did the middle Kingdom take place?
2000 B.C.E. to 1500 B.C.E.
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When did the new Kingdom take place?
Around 1500 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.
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Which two foreign powers controlled Egypt in the last centuries
Rome and Greece
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Menes
First recorded Pharaoh | he was a unifier of upper and lower Egypt
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Ancient Egyptian social classes
``` The pharaoh the royal family and high priests district governors scribes artisans and merchants farmers and laborers ```
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Scribe
Can read and write
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Artisan
Makes art
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Merchant
Buy stuff and sells them for profit
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What was the main unit of money used to pay rent
Beer
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Wherewhen and by who was the Rosetta Stone found
In Egypt in 1799 by French soldiers
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What are "creation myths"
Every culture has its own idea of where we all came from
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Name the three gods that form the sacred trilogy of the Egyptian religion
Isis Osiris Horus
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Anubis
He weighs the person's heart against a feather to determine whether they will live a happy or horrible afterlife
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Why was mummification important to the Egyptians?
They believed in the afterlife, so they preserve your body when you died
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Howard carter
An archaeologist in 1922 who found King Tut's tomb
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Why were the great pyramids built?
They were tombs/Graves
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What is the "valley of queens "?
The burial site for Egyptian Queens
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Were the Egyptians monotheistic?
No
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Polytheism
A belief in many gods
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Theocracy
When religious laws are the law
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Stylus
Implement used to write cuneiform
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Pictograms
Pictures used as the alphabet
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What were the drawbacks of pictograms
You need a different picture for every word some people are bad artists it's time-consuming and you can't draw ideas
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Ideograms
Drawings to represent ideas
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Phonics
Phoenician alphabet in which the characters are used to represent sounds
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Ancient Sumer's social classes
``` Priest King royal family government scribes Farmers laborers ```
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What's found in the middle of every Sumerian city?
A massive temple/ziggurat
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What was the first known Empire and who controlled it?
Akkad - Akkadians Sargon ruled it
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What is the importance of Hammurabi's Law code?
First evidence of a written code tells us a lot about their society and it proves that the ruler gave up some of their power
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What were the important accomplishments of the Babylonians?
Law code mathematics and astronomy

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