ch.2 WESTERN ASIA & EGYPT
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fertile Crescent | an area of fertile land from the Mediterranean sea to the Persian gulf |
| ancient Mesopotamian people who created the first civilization in the middle east | Sumerians |
| city- states | a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
| Ziggurat | a massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city |
| theocracy | a government by divine authority |
| Sargon | leader of the Akkadians overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the first empire |
| Hammurabi | creator of the new Mesopotamian kingdom |
| the fundamental part of the system of justice found in the Hammurabi | Retaliation (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) |
| patriarchal | dominated by men |
| polytheistic | believing in many gods |
| Sumerians created in approximately | cuneiform system form of writing |
| the epic of Gilgamesh | a poem of a king named Gilgamesh |
| Dynasty | a family of of ruler whose rights to rule is passed on within the family |
| pharaoh | most common title of Egyptian monarchs |
| Bureaneracy | an administrative organization with officials and regulatenprocedures |
| the steps of mummification | they tuck out all the main organs and put them in jars, covered the corps with salt, rapped the body lines soaked in resin, and closed the tombs |
| Akhenaton angered many Egyptians by | he tried to destroyed the temple of the older gods |
| Hieroglyphics | priest-carvings, or sacred writings |
| papyrus | a paper made from papyrus reeds that grew along the nile |
| hieratic script were used for | record keeping, and the general need of daily life |
| pastoral nomads | nomads who domesticated animals for both food and clothing |
| Indo-Europanus | a particular group of people who used a language divided from a single parent tongue |
| Monotheistic | beliving in one god |
| the three main aspects of Jewish religion | convenant, law and prophets |
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