Vocabulary
Agriculture
What is farming?
A city and the land surrounding it that is independently ruled
What is a city-state?
A law code enacted by the king of Babylonia around 1772 BC
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
(3000-2000 BCE) an early river valley civilization established on the Nile River
What is Ancient Egypt?
A system of writing created in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE
What is Cuneiform?
A new method of addressing a problem
What is innovation?
The practice of negotiating between nations or governments
What is diplomacy?
(1895-539 BCE) empire in Mesopotamia; Hammurabi was one of its rulers
What is the Babylonian Empire?
The first civilizations in human history were located in
What are river valleys?
a description of the ancient Egyptian idea of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to guide the dead through the challenges that Egyptians believed they would meet in the afterlife
What is the Egyptian Book of the Dead?
A system for ranking groups of people
What is hierarchy?
A group of once separate areas ruled by a single person or government
What is an empire?
The number of kings that ruled Babylonia before Hammurabi.
What is five?
(3500-1650 BCE) a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where the first early river valley civilizations started
What is Mesopotamia?
A device used in Ancient Egypt that enabled people to transfer water from a river to their fields
What is a shaduf?
A grouping of people in a society based usually based on wealth, religion, ethnicity, or other factors
What is social class?
imaginary or invented
What is mythological?
Hammurabi reigned for
What is 42 years (1792 - 1750)
(2500-1700 BCE) an early river valley civilization located in the present-day countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India that included the cities Mohenjo-daro and Harappa
What is the Indus River Valley
Water
Clay
Straw
Manure
What are the ingredients used for the mud bricks?
A city in the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C.E., located in present day Pakistan.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
Related to the physical features of the earth
What is geographic?
Hammurabi gained power by...
What is conducting a series of wars?
The river valley that used terrace farming
What is Ancient China?
Tortoise shells or cow bones used by spiritual guides in Shang China (1554-1045 BCE) to communicate with ancestors, gods, and to tell the future
What are oracle bones?