| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Fertile Crescent | An area if land that goes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf |
| Mesopotamia | Land between rivers |
| city-state | a city that had agricultral land around it and made up an area |
| Gilgamesh | a king in Mesopotamia who ruled the Sumerian city-state Uruk |
| Ziggurat | a mud brick temple built in layers |
| Polytheism | believing in many gods |
| Cuneiform | a ancient method of writing based on pictographs |
| Hammurabi's Code | A set of laws that believed in the eye for an eye method |
| Tigris River | a river that is in the northern part of Mesopotamia |
| Euphrates River | a river that is in the southern part of Mesopotamia |
| Sargon 1 | A king with the first standing army who conquered a part of the world |
| Phoenicians | people that lived near Lebanon and had few resources so had biggest water trade route |
| alphabet | consisted of Cuneiform and pictographs |
| Abraham | mans father of many nations |
| Hebrews | followed judaism |
| Judaism | A religion where they only believe in one God and no jesus |
| Canaan | coastal plains along Mediterranean Sea |
| Moses | gave the ten Commandments |
| The ten Commandments | laws sent by god to Moses that were to tel you what not to do |
| monotheism | to believe in only one God |
| Indus River | a river that goes from Pakistan and through India |
| Himalayas | a mountain range that borders the Indian sub continent |
| Mohenjo-Daro | one of the cities in the Indus Valley that had a great big wall that is a model of city planning |
| Harappa | a city in The Indus Valley that is so important sometimes called Harappan Civilization because it was so big and succesful |
| Great Bath | The largest public building in ancient times that seated a lot of people |
| Hinduism | the religion that many indians serve that believes in a man named Brahma |
| Brahma | The Creator |
| Reincarnation | Same soul different life reincarnated into a different thing maybe higher or lower social class |
| Kharma | a thing that is if you have good ________ you get more soul covering and bad_______ less covering |
| Moksha | a point where you are at your Highest State of Being, Eternal peace, or Release of the Soul |
| subcontinent | A area totally isolated from the other continent the same by a physical barrier |
| Upanishads | Hindu poems and means to sit near someone |
| Vedas | four of these one is Rig_____ is a Hymn |
| Aryans | people originating from the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea |
| Khyber Pass | a pass in the Himalayas that allowed trade between two civilizations |
| The wheel | an inovention made in Mesopotamia to help agriculture |
| The plow | a invention based on the wheel that also increased agriculture |
| Silk | a natural thing made by worms used to make clothes and some tools |
| Scribes | writers that could write Cuneiform |
| Huang-He River | also Yellow River located in China bordering parts of Gobi Desert and Yellow Sea |
| Shang | the dynasty the Great Yu made that his family descendants belonged to |
| bronze | a concoction of copper and tin |
| Mandate of Heaven | the rule stating if a natural disaster comes the ruler shall be put out of service |
| ethnocentric | thinking that you are center of the world and are all great |
| oracle bones | bones that when crack tell the oracle what to tell its customers |
| dynasty | rule passed down through the generations of one family |
| patriarchal | a society controlled by men |
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