Vocab #3
Working together for the good of all
Cooperation
a ranking of people into higher or lower positions of respect A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.
Social Classes
characteristic of a city or town.
Urban
A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
Civilization
A set of laws for responsible behavior, which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses the God
Ten Commandments
A struggle between opposing forces
Conflict
A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.
Settlement
a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze
Bronze Age
something new, a change; the act of introducing a new method, idea, device, etc.
Innovation
A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament.
Judaism
To gain or maintain control
Power
a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system
Revolution
"land between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
Ancient civilization located primarily along the Nile River.
Ancient Egypt
A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
city-state
being unequal
inequality
.a type of civilization that developed near or around a major river and considered the earliest known large human civilizations
River Valley
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Fertile Crescent
a farming system that is in the form of steps going up a mountain
Terrace Farming
The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by Moses, are called this
Torah
being connected with each other through communication, technology, trade
Interconnectedness
The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain.
Agriculture.
One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions
Catal Huyuk
an ancient civilization thriving along the Indus River in what is now Pakistan and western India. This civilization is also sometimes referred to as the Harappan or Harappa-Mohenjo-Daro Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference to the excavated cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Indus River Valley Civilization
the scattering of the Jewish people outside their homeland beginning about 586 BCE
Jewish Disapora