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world history 1500
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fertile Crescent | The fertile crescent was an area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the middle east. It was the site of the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia. It was named the Fertile Crescent due to its very fertile land, beginning of agriculture |
| gender | Gender is roles and behaviors assigned to certain sexes. In ancient times, gender defined your role in society, and defined how you could act, who you could be, etc. |
| Hieroglyphics | Heiroglyphics were the ancient egyptian form of writing. They were pictographs used to represent sounds and ideas. Hieroglyphics were essential to understanding Ancient Egyptian society and stuff |
| Pharaoh | The Pharaoh was the King in Egyptian culture. He was the single leader in society, and was strongly connected to the Gods. He was seen as part God himself. The pharaoh is a good example of how egyptians were close with their gods and regarded them in a + |
| Monotheism | Monotheism is the belief in only one God. Egyptians were a monotheistic society and only had one deity they worshipped, as compared to most cultures which worshipped multiple gods. |
| Book of the dead | the book of the dead was an egyptian book describing how to prepare the body for the afterlife. what the body could expect in the afterlife. egyptians were one of first cultures to prepare body for afterlife, preservation how the body could succeed |
| prehistoric | means "before history" Things that happened before history was recorded. Before forms of writing/drawing used to communicate history |
| anthropomorphic | representing something non human with human features. In egyptianart many of the drawings showed animals with human features, also sculptures like the sphinx show an animal with human features |
| Harrappan Society | migrants in Indus river valley, 1st society in india but much is a mystery because ruins are buried in silt from indus river |
| aryan migration | migration of people from europe area to india area |
| veda | in aryan india, a collection of hymns poems and songs honoring aryan gods. |
| upanishads | in aryan religion, practice of dissciples gathering before a sage for religious discussion. |
| minoan culture | culture that emergend on island of crete in mediterranean. traded with all surrounding cultures and became sophisticated society. had influence from other surrounding cultures |
| olmec culture | cuture in gulf of mexico that deeply influenced surrounding mexican cultures after their disappearancce in 400bce. rich agriculture, large sculpture and buildings, deliberately destroyed b4 decline |
| mohenjodaro |
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