Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Mesopotamia
Egypt
New Centers of Civlization
100
This is massive stepped tower used as temples
What is a ziggurat?
100
This is a belief in one god.
What is monotheistic?
100
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
What is the land "between the rivers"?
100
This is the most important feature of Egypt and most cities are created near it
What is the Nile River?
100
These are the languages used by Indo-Europeans
What are Greek, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Germanic languages?
200
This is a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
What is a city-state?
200
This is a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family.
What is a dynasty?
200
This is a government by divine authority
What is theocracy?
200
Name some of the natural barriers Egypt had
What are deserts, the Red sea, cataracts, and the Nile?
200
This group of people create an alphabet with 22 different sings to represent the speech.
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
This is a large political unit or state, under one single leader
What is an empire?
300
This means "great house" and is an Egyptian ruler
What is a pharaoh?
300
These were the three major social groups in Mesopotamia.
What are nobles, commoners, and slaves?
300
This king united Lower and Upper Egypt and created the first dynasty
Who is King Menes?
300
This group of people created the Kingdom of Israel
Who are the Israelite or the people of Judah?
400
This means it is a society dominated by men
What is patriarchal?
400
These are priest carvings or sacred writigs
What is hieroglyphics?
400
This was a collection of laws based on a system of strict justice.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
This is the purpose of the pyramids
What is they were tombs for the pharaohs?
400
These were Semitic-Speaking people who terrorized the people they conquered.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
This is a belief in many gods
What is polytheistic?
500
These are people who domesticated animals for food and clothes.
What are pastoral nomads?
500
This is the type of "wedge-shaped" writing used in Sumer
What is cuneiform?
500
This was the first woman pharaoh.
Who Hatshepsut?
500
Under this empire, it expanded as well had developed roads and a great army of immortals
What is the Persian Empire?
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