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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fuedalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king, in exchange for thier loyalty, military service and protection of of the people who live on the land |
| Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods |
| theocracy | a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) |
| Loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind |
| Shang Dynasty | the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC |
| isis | Egyptian goddess of fertility |
| Cultural Diffusion | the spread of cultural elements from one society to another |
| Papyrus | a document written on papyrus |
| Harrapan civilization | An ancient Indian culture , dating back to 2500 BC, that included the people of the entire Indus River region |
| Sumer | an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq |
| Mesopotamia | the land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) |
| Dynastic cycle | the historical pattern of the rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
| Fertile crescent | A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland \ |
| Pyramids | monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs. |
| Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source |
| Herodotus | the ancient Greek known as the father of history |
| Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia |
| Cave Paintings | Prehistoric wall art |
| Scribes | people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread |
| Catal huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions |
| UR | an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River |
| Hominids | humans and other creatures that walk upright |
| Bronze age | (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence |
| Neolithic Revolution | the shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC |
| paleolithic age | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC |
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