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river valley civil.
ancient river valley civilizations: mesopotamia, egypt, indus valley, china
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assurbanipal-m | founded the worlds first library |
| Nebuchadnezzar-m | the second king of babylon, the hanging gardens, |
| Zoroaster-m | persian thinker, rejected old persian gods and taught only one god |
| Hammurabi-m | first king of babylon, wrote hammurabi's code |
| Epic of Gilgamesh-m | mesopotamian book that tells a store of a great flood that destroys earth |
| Sargon-m ruler of akkad, built first empire | ruler of akkad, built first empire |
| hittites-M | concurred mesopotamia and brought over iron tools and weapons |
| Darius-e | took control of babylon from Nesbuchadnezzar |
| Cyrus the Great -e | Persian ruler, concurred babylon and freed the Israelites |
| Hatshepsut -e | egypt's first female leader, encouraged trade, wore a fake beard |
| Ramses II-e | a pharaoh of egypt, expanded empire, signed peace treaty with the hittites |
| Osiris-e | egyptian god of the dead |
| Isis-e | egyptian god, was fond towards woman |
| Akhenaton -e | a pharaoh who devoted his life to the god Aton |
| Aryans-i | a mix between nomads and local people |
| Indra-i | fierce god of war |
| Rajah-i | a skilled leader of a aryan tribe |
| Siddhartha Gautama -i | a reformer who's teachings started Buddhism |
| Chandragupta-i | forged the first indian empire |
| Asoka-i | chandragupta's grandson, switched to buddhism after a lost battle |
| Maurya empire-i | concord gangues valley, later concord the rest of india, ruled by chandragupta, his son, and his grandson asoka |
| Confucius-c | a chines thinker, teacher, and philosopher, developed philosophy, Confucianism was based off of his teachings |
| Laozi-c | a great chines thinker who put forward ideas on how to restore social order and maintain harmony with nature |
| Monotheistic | belief of only one god |
| Polytheistic | belief of many gods |
| ziggurat | a large, stepped platform topped with a temple(M) |
| cuneiform | earliest known form of writing, from sumer(M) |
| Hammurabi’s code of law | first written set of codes and laws (M) |
| Civil law | deals with private laws and matters(M) |
| Criminal law | deals with offenses against others such as a robbery, assault, or murder(M) |
| Judaism | monotheistic religion of the jews |
| Diaspora | the spreading out of the jewish people from their home |
| vizier | chief minister and the pharaoh's right hand man(E) |
| bureaucracy | a system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority(E) |
| hieroglyphics | a system in which symbols or pictures represented objects, concepts, or sounds(E) |
| mummification | the process of preserving the dead by taking out their organs and wrapping them in cloth(E) |
| Hinduism | a polytheistic religion/belief system with the goal of non virtue (I) |
| castes | social groups people are born into which cannot be changed(I) |
| karma | all of a person's actions that affect his/her fate in the after life(I) |
| dharma | the religious and moral duties of a individual, used to escape karma(I) |
| Mahabharata | indian poem, long, about battles and restoration of peace(I) |
| Ramayana | indian poem, short, about adventurous hero(I) |
| Buddhism | grew off of hinduism, believes in a goal of nirvana, rejected caste system(I) |
| Four Noble Truths | 1. life is full of suffering 2. the cause of suffering is non virtue 3. the only cure for suffering is overcoming non virtue 4. the way to overcome non virtue is to follow the eightfold path (I) |
| oracle bones | first sign of chines writing, used animal bone/shell to ask the ancestors and god questions(C) |
| loess | fine, fertile, yellow soil along the huang river(C) |
| filial piety | respect for parents, Confucianism, put above all other duties(C) |
| feudalism | a system where local leaders governed their own land but owed military service and forms of support to their ruler(C) |
| Mandate of Heaven | the divine right to rule(C) |
| Zhou Dynasty | after the shang dynasty, lasted until 256.BCE(C) |
| philosophy | a system of ideas that was concerned with worldly goals(C) |
| Daoism | follow the dao(C) |
| Legalism | reward,punishment, laws(C) |
| 8 features of a civilization | government, religion, public works, job specialization, social classes, art/architecture, writing, cities |
| eightfold path | following the four noble truths, living a moral life witha final goal of nirvana(I) |
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