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Mesopotamia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Zoroaster | persian thinker- lived 600 B.C. |
| Darius | ruled from 522 B.C.- real unification of the Persian emperor |
| Moses | Hebrew prophet |
| Hammurabi | 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia. |
| Solomon | 10th century b.c., king of Israel (son of David). |
| Ziggurat | a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, |
| Cyrus | c600–529 b.c., king of Persia 558?–529: founder of the Persian empire. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a king of Babylonia, 604?–561? b.c., and conqueror of Jerusalem. II Kings 24, 25 |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | oldest works of literature in the world- epic tells of his fantastic adventures and daring exploits. |
| Social hierarchy | system of social ranks |
| Zend Avesta | a book of Zoroaster's teachings |
| Ahura Mazda | Zoroaster taught that Ahura Mazda ruled the world |
| Monotheistic | the doctrine or belief that there is only one god. |
| Polytheistic | the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods. |
| City-state | A political unit that inclided a city and it surrounding lands and villages. |
| empire | a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler. |
| Torah | there most sacred text- contains five books |
| theocracy | gov't lead by church leaders |
| code of hammurabi | set of laws to unite the babylonian empire |
| satrap | divided persian empire into provinxes each headed by a governor called satrap |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews |
| cuneiform | writing of several ancient languages of Mesopotamia and Persia, esp Sumerian, Babylonian |
| irrigation | an agricultural practice that involves providing water to crops through pipes ditches or streams |
| historian | an expert in history |
| primary source | firsthand or eyewitness |
| secondary source | any document that describes an event, person, place, or thing, usu. not created contemporaneously |
| civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached. |
| fertile crescent | the land that curves from persian gulf to the eastern mediterranean soast. dark rich soils and golden wheat fields earned name |
| Hanging gardens | one of the wounders of the ancient world. made by planting trees and flowering plants on the steps of a huge ziggurat |
| Barter economy | exchanging one set of goods or services for another |
| colony | a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. |
| prophet | a person who speaks for god or a deity, or by divine inspiration |
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