Ancient Mesopotamia
type of religion.
what is Zoroastrianism?
a system of writing where pictures stand foe words.
what is hieroglyphics?
having title or possession by reason of birth.
what is hereditary?
story tellers.
what is bards?
to defend from trouble or harm.
what is protect?
invented a twelve month calendar.
what is a Sumerians?
a reed plant that grows along the Nile.
what is papyrus?
a system of beliefs based on the teaching of Confucius.
what is Confucianism?
a body of land with water on three sides.
what is a peninsula?
to be lawfully in charge of.
what is a administer?
what homes were made of in Mesopotamia.
what is mud brick?
a water fall or rapids in the river.
what is cataracts?
a Chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of laws.
what is legalism?
a group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland.
what is a colony?
basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes.
what is philosophy?
created and ruled the Babylonian empire.
what is Hammurabi?
a bucket attached to a long pole. it was used to move river water into storage basins.
what is a shadoof?
a group of non elected government officials.
what is bureaucracy?
a gathering place marketplace in ancient Greece.
what is a agora?
in ancient Rome, a person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
what is a gladiator?
was the king of akkadians who conquered Mesopotamia.
what is sargon?
the fan shaped area of good farming soil where the river flows into the sea.
what is a delta?
the belief that the Chinese kings right to rule came from the gods.
what is a mandate of heaven?
a group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows.
what is a phalanx?
relating to the practice of medicine.
what is medical?