Human Origins
This time was a turning point in global history defined by the rise of farming and civilization
Neolithic Revolution/Agricultural Revolution
The class or specialized group that had the task of keeping all types of records
Scribes
This is the yellow-brown sediment that creates fertile soil in river beds
The process in which Egyptians would embalm a corpse, dry it, and wrap it in waxen cloth, in an attempt to preserve a body in the afterlife.
Mummification
The mutual promise between God and Abraham. Abraham will obey God and God will protect Abraham and his family
The Covenant
The term for the time period before written history
Prehistory
Possibly the first written language, used by Mesopotamian civilization in a system of symbols, written on clay tablets
Cuneiform
This pyramid-shaped temple was placed at the direct center of Mesopotamian civilizations. A place for priests to sacrifice and perform rituals
Ziggurat
Egyptians created this paper-like material from splitting and drying reeds grown in the delta
Papyrus
A place of cultural crossroads connecting multiple continents, seas, and empires on the eastern Mediterranean.
Palestine
In the Paleolithic Age this is how early humans obtained food
Hunting and gathering
The Egyptian way of writing, using pictures to represent symbols
Hieroglyphics
An economic system of trading standardized goods that predates systems of money
Bartering System
The nickname given to the yearly flooding of the Nile river, giving life to its people.
The gift of the Nile.
Ancient home of the Hebrews located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The land that was promised to the Hebrew people by God.
Canaan
This process of burning vegetation and using the ashes to fertilize the soil
Slash and burn farming
This language system was created by the master shipbuilders that traded all over the Mediterranean. Eventually adopted and changed by the Greeks.
The term for an independent city with its own governing system, functioning similar to a country
City-state
Triangular piece of broad, marshy land that lets out into the Mediterranean Sea
Delta
The first five books in the Hebrew bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
The Torah
Language, customs, belief, and traditions are examples of a peoples ___________
Culture
Three things that scribes kept track of are __________, ________, and _________
Taxes, laws, food storage, calendars, debts/payments, historical events
This law system contains the law "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth"
Hammurabi's Code
Pharaohs powers were granted due to this type of governing, meaning authority from the Gods
Theocracy
Eventually led by three Kings, Saul, David, and Solomon, after which this land split into two distinct places and eventually lost independence to the Assyrian Empire.
The Kingdom of Israel