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chapter 2 vocab hisr
chapter 2 history
Question | Answer |
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The basic units of summarian civilization | city-states |
A massive stepped tower | ziggurat |
Society in ancient mesopotamia. | patriarchal |
Mesopotamian religion was | polytheistic |
Around 3,000 B.C., the summarians created a wedge shaped writting tool called | cuneiform |
The most comman name for monarch | pharaoh |
To preserve the pyshical body after death | mummification |
Greeks later called this earliest Egyptian writing | Hieroglyphics |
A highly simplified version of hieroglyphics | hieratic script |
Domesticated animals for both food and clothing | pastoral nomads |
The Jews were ___ they believed in one God | monotheistic |