S.S Test 10\25\22 Flashcards
An arc shaped area that went from the mediterranean sea to the Persian gulf
Fertile Crecent
A greek word that means “ land between two rivers” the two rivers were the tigris and the Euphrates
Mesopotamia
To bring water to the fields during the dry months
Irrigate
Self governed cities that also govern the surrounding villages
City States
Exchanged goods without using money
Barter
The belief in multiple gods
Polytheisim
A temple of worship that the sumerians and babylonians used, they were pyramid brick towers
Ziggurats
A system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for words, ideas and sounds
Cunieform
A complex society that has cities, a well organized govt and specialized workers
Civilization
Pictures on wet clay tablets that represent nouns
Pictographs
Pictures on wet clay tablets that represent verbs
Ideographs
What are the 4 city states
Ur, Urk, Kish, and Eridu
goddess of love and war
Ishtar
god of water
Enki
Great mother goddess
Ninhursag
Moon god
Nanna
god of the sun and the son of nanna
Utu
The king of the city state Kish
Sargon
A state containing several countries or territories
Empire
An independent state that works with other states to achieve a military goal
Ally
An idea or way of doing smth in a certain culture
Cultural Trait
A set of laws that governed the Babylonian empire
Hammurabi’s code
The idea that all members of a society must obey the law
Rule of law
One of the babylonian gods
Marduk
Soldiers that fight on horse back
Cavalry
A payment to show loyalty to a stronger power
Tribute
Money that is used as a medium of exchange usually bills or gold coins
Currency
A carved slab or pillar that stands on an end
Stele
An assyrian leader that made the city of Nineveh his capital
Ashurbanipal
The capital of assyria
Nineveh
The ‘one true god” that zoroaster showed the persians
Ahura Mazda
Goods that are sold within a country but made in another
Import
Goods that are made within a country but sold in another
Exports
The action of steering a ship from place to place
Navigate
An area fulled by a distant country
Colony
The spread of one culture trait from one religion to another
Cultural diffusion
persian leader that helped in the war
Cyrus the Great
A set of all the letters ever made
Alphebet
Mountains that formed the eastern boarder of the phoenician empire
Lebanon Mts
The belief in the one true God
Monotheism
The ideas of right and wrong
Ethnics
The first five books of the hebrew bible
Torah
An agreement with God
Covenant
The escape of the Israelites from slavery
Exodus
An order to do something
Commandment
A person believed to be chosen by God as a messenger to bring truth to people
Prophet
Religious teachers, oral laws that are believed to come from the teachings of Moses
Rabbi
A text finished around 600 CE that is a collection of royal teachings and commandments about the hebrew bible
Talamud
A jewish weekly day of rest
Sabbath
Separation from ones homeland
Exiles
The communities outside of the land of israel
Diaspora
A jewish meeting place
Synagogues
The city state that Abraham and Sarah moved to
Cannoah
Saved the Israelites from slavery and got the ten commandments off of MT Sinai is believed to be a prophet
Moses
Where God gave Moses the ten commandments
Mt. Siani
First five books of the bible
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers and Deuteronomy
