Chapter 1 & 2 Test Flashcards
Slash and burn
People clear fields and the ashes are served to fertilize the soil
Nomad
A member of the group that has no permanent home, in search of food and water
Domestication
Taming of animals for human use
Ziggurat
Pyramid-shaped structure that formed part of a Samaritan temple
Neolithic revolution
People’s shifts from food gathering to food producing
5 things needed for civilization
Written record Complex institution Advance Technology Advance cities Specialized worker
Hammurabi
Creates a code of laws for the Babylonian Empire
Mesopotamia
Land between Rivers (Tigris and euphrates)
Fertile Crescent
An ark of rich farmland Between the Persian gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
Samarian
One of the first groups of people that formed civilization
Sargon of a Akkad
Defeated the city states of Sumer. Took control of both northern and southern Mesopotamia. Created the first empire
Silt
Rich new soil
Irrigation
Supply water to land or crops to help growth
Dynasty
A series of rulers from a family
Epic of Gilgamesh
Looks for The fountain of youth and discovers humans are suppose to die in Mesopotamia
City-State
A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit
Polytheism
a belief in many gods
Empire
Political unit in which a number of people or countries that are controlled by a single ruler
Delta
A Region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river
theocracy
Government in which the ruler is viewed as a defined figure
Mummification
A process of embalming drying corpse to prevent them from Decaying
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sound
Papyrus
A tall reed that grows in the Nile Delta used by Egyptian to make A paperlike material for writing on
Cuneiform
Invented by Samarian’s a System of writing with wedge-shaped symbols
