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Hum-Review2
PCS-Mr. Hoffman-Humanities-Review2-Assyrians and Babylonians
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tigris | river in Mesopotamia |
| Euphrates | river in Mesopotamia |
| Mesopotamia | area of land between Tigris and Euphrates where earliest civilizations developed |
| Garden of Eden | beautiful home of Adam and Eve in Hebrew Scripture |
| Arabian Nights | collection of stories about ancient Mesopotamia |
| Genesis | Hebrew book describing creation of world |
| Creation tablets | babylonlan story of the creation of world |
| Marduk | chief god of Babylon; creator god of world |
| Nineveh | Assyrian City |
| Assurbanipal | king of Assyria; made copies of the history of Assyria and Babylon |
| cuneiform | Assyrian and Babylonian form of writing |
| Hammurabi | king of the early Babylonians |
| Nebuchadnezzar | king of later Babylonians (Chaldeans) |
| Ishtar Gate | gate entering Nebuchadnezzar's palace |
| Hanging Gardens | Nebuchadnezzar's gardens in Babylon |
| Belshazzar | king of later Babylonians; followed Nebuchadnezzar |
| Cyrus | king of Persia; defeated Babylonians |
| Borsippa | suburb of Babylon; famous for its medical school |
| clepsydra | vessel used to count time |
| Marduk | creator god |
| Ea | Spirit of the Water |
| Spirit of the Southwest wind | one of the chief evil spirits in Babylonian religion |
| Three Wise Men | sages from East who visited Jesus at his birth |
| Tower of Babel | ziggurat temple built in Hebrew story |
| The Land of No Return | gloomy place where souls went after death |
| Goddess of Love | goddess who went to The Land of No Return to search for her lover |
| Herodotus | "The leaf of the wheat and barley is as much as three inches in width, and the stalks of the millet are so tall that no one who has never been in that country would believe me, were I to mention their height." |
| Names of the two walls of Nineveh | "Wall whose splendor overthrows the Enemy" and "Wall that terrifies the Foe" |
| Assurbanipal | "For the use of readers" |
| Babylonian copybook | "He who would excel in the school of the scribes must rise like the dawn." |
| Nebuchadnezzar | "Is not this great Babylonian, which I have built for the house of the kingdom, by 'the might of my power, and the glory of my majesty!" |
| A hymn to the moon god | "Father, long-suffering and full of forgiveness, whose hands uphold the life of all mankind! Firstborn, omnipotent, whose heart is immensity, there is none who may fathom it. In heaven, who is supreme? Thou alone, Thou art supreme. On earth, who is sup |
| Description of The Land of No Return | "The house of darkness ... the house men enter, but cannot depart from; the road men go, but cannot return. The house from whose dwellers the light is withdrawn, the place where dust is their food, their nourishment clay. The light they behold not, in |
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