Empires and Kingdoms
What is the Assyrian Empire?
As humans needed to cooperate these things developed and are used to tell stories, pass down skills, and develop a shared identity.
Used to build temples for worship or sacrifice and palaces and tombs for kings. Painters and artists portrayed stories of nature and depicted gods and rulers.
What is art and architecture?
Explains the forces of nature and their roles in the world, why things are the way they are, and provide values for living.
What is religion?
Refers to any people or ethnic group forced to leave its traditional homeland, and the spreading out of those people that results from it. It is especially used with reference to the Jewish people, who have lived most of their historical existence as a diasporan people
What is Daispora?
What is The Kingdom of Jerusalem?
Used to keep records of history and creative expression.
What is writing?
The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
What is agriculture?
The title of one of the first forms of written art.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The process by which ideas, behaviors, and cultural traits spread from one group to another, either within the same culture or across different cultures.
What is cultural diffusion?
Empire Ruled by Hammurabi, most well known for its arts and architecture.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
Realistic drawings of large animals created with crushed mineral ore and animal fat.
What are cave paintings?
These gardens were created through a series of innovation and irrigation systems which allowed them to grow along a palace. They are known through records of their beauty but it is not known how they were created.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
These were massive stepped towers on which a temple was built and dedicated to the chief god or goddess of that city.
What are Ziggurats?
Centers of population, culture, and trade. First developed on rivers or other bodies of water.
What are cities?
These people originated in port cities along the Mediterranean and revolutionized trade by charting new routes in the Mediterranean and building ships that could travel on it.
Who are The Phoenicians?
First used 500,000 years ago in Northern China. Provides warmth, protection, and a place for social gatherings.
What is fire?
These things provide meat, milk, wool, and can be used for manual labor.
What are animals?
The name for the clearest code of conduct and the basis for the legal system in the Kingdom of Jerusalem that can be found in the Torah.
What are the Ten Commandments?
A state with political and economic power over the surrounding countryside. Often includes one large city, multiple smaller villages and towns, and vast farmland.
What are City-States
The first people to discover how to work iron to make tools and weapons.
Who are Hitties?
First created by the Phoenicians and consists of characters that represent a spoken sound.
What is the alphabet?
A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. This could be weapons, clothes, tools, etc.
Who are artisans?
The first written code of laws which helped regulate the Babylonian Empire and reinforced social norms and rules. Consists of rules and the punishments for if those rules were broken. The structure is very detailed: each offence receiving a particular punishment.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A framework for people's' roles in the society. This includes job specialization.
What is Social Structure?