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Humanities Ch. 2
Adventures of the Human Spirit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cave artist | artists painted and engraved images of greater animals pf power - mammoths, bison, lions, and rhinoceros - with uncanny realism in caves of southwest europe |
| sumerians | the first people to use writing and construct monumental buildings |
| cuniform | sumerian writing that originally consisted of pictures pressed into day tablets, probably used to record contracts and tabulate goods |
| ziggurats | the first monumental religious structures were sumerian stepped pyramids |
| pharaohs | god-kings who erected stupendous monuments along the bank of the nile |
| polytheism | the belief in many gods |
| nefertari | the favored queen |
| shang | a warrior culture whose rulers built walled cities and gigantic tombs in the yellow river valley |