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World History Sem. 1
This is the vocabulary for world history....Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mesopotamia | land between Tigris and Euphraties |
| Sumerians | created Mesopatamian civilizations, People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. |
| Uruk | independant city-state in Southern Meopatamia, an ancient Sumerian city in Southern Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c. : exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script. |
| fertile crescent | Med sea to persian gulf |
| city states | land unit for Sumerian civilizations |
| ziggurat | a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |
| theocracy | the belief in government by divine guidance |
| sargon | warrior who found the Akkadian Empire and so became the first ruler of an empire in the Fertile Crescent |
| empire | many territories and peoples controlled by one government |
| babylon | the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia |
| hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) |
| code of hammurabi | the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety |
| patriarchal | male-dominated |
| polytheistic | worshipping or believing in more than one god |
| cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia |
| nile | the world's longest river (4180 miles) |
| lower egypt | The northern part of ancient Egypt |
| upper egypt | the southern part of ancient Egypt |
| menes | king of upper Egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt |
| dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family |
| pharoah | Egyptian ruler who was believed to be the son of Re, the sun god, in human form. He had total authority over people and land. |
| bureacracy | a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
| mummification | embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy |
| giza | an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo |
| hysoks | group of Western Asians |
| hatshepsut | First female pharaoh |
| Akhenation | monotheistic pharaoh |
| king tut | A young king whose tomb was filled with jewelry, robes, burial masks, and ivory statues. These findings have helped people learn about Egypt's past |
| rames ii | the strongest of the pharaohs at his time, ruled from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. |
| cleopatra | beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt |
| heiroglyphics | ancient Egyptian writing system using picture symbols for ideas or sounds |
| hieratic | a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics |
| pastoral nomad | Groups of herders who move with their animals from place to place in search of pasture and water |
| indo-europeans | earliest versions of greeks, brought Gods, Zeus, warriors |
| monotheistic | believing that there is only one god |
| assyrians | known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful |
| nebuchadnezzar | (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC) |
| satrapies | the 20 states into which Darius divided the Persian Empire |
| satrap | a governor of a province in ancient Persia |
| royal road | a road in the persian empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from susa in persia to sardis in anatolia |
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