Quizlet West civ: prehistory/Egypt/Early civilizations

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  1. Abraham: takes his people on a journey to caanan thousands of years of war
  2. Akhnaton: Sickly king who changed the main god of egypt from something to aton.changed his name from akhnamen to akhnaton. lost support of priests. wife:nefertiti, 6daughters, 1son...king tut
  3. akkad: city state in akkadian empire
  4. akkadians: "Semitic people" north of the Sumerian city-states
  5. Aramaic: semetic language---hebrew alphabet
  6. Asherbanipal-ul: kicked ass, assyrian, recorded everything, built first library, 22,000 clay tablets
  7. Asian: shhh
  8. assyrians: semetic nomads that related to hebrews, adapted culture from babylonians, nomads, conquered egypt threw wars, aser main city, conquered mesopotamia, built roads,
  9. Aton: Sun god
  10. Babylon: biblical-tried to build a temple t reach god, but god was like you cant understand eachother, historical-city states, not empire, king for each city,HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
  11. Babylonians: conquered sumerians have a class system
  12. Book of the dead: instruction manuel on how to gt to the after life---maat
  13. bronze age: period in which people used copper and tin, made tools and shields and weapons, propels civilization
  14. Caananites: palestian semites hebrews and phonecians
  15. Carthage: most dominant phonecian city, colonies each had political independence, fight three wars with rome, traded with rome alot
  16. Chaldaens: descendents of hammurabi, lots of people who did shit
  17. civilization: farming, herding, organized gov., organized religion, culture, writing
  18. Cleopatra: fucked all the bitches, last pharoah, ptolomy family(greek)
  19. division of labor: woman gathered, men hunted
  20. Dorians: mysterious sea peoples, conquered hittites
  21. epic of gilgamesh: about a strong leader who was part god, where the ods got mad, slept around, part human part animal became best friends, killed bull god, female sent, Inkadu fll in love, gilgamesh is sad, seaches for eternal life-snae-dont fuck with the gods
  22. Giza: the perfect place for pyramids because of the enviroments---3 great pryramids---sphyninx
  23. hammurabi: sixth king of babylon, first to write for an entire empire---eye for an eye
  24. Hatsepsut: ruled in place of stepson for 22 years, first pharoah to open up trade to Mesopotamia,
  25. hebrews: "dusty ones" monotheistic, abraham was father, from sumer
  26. hieroglyphics: second form of writing, pictographs
  27. Hittites: founded the iron age, took over the babylonian empire (used chariots) conquered by dorians
  28. Homoerectus: man who walks upright
  29. Horus: god of sky
  30. Hyksos: new invading group from turkey,
  31. Immmortals: wore purple, masks, the best fighters, so good and so many, if people died in battle the same amount would be back the next day, 10,000 soldiers made them up
  32. Indo-European: Language family (french, farsi) all languages trace back to it
  33. Iranians: descendeants of the persians
  34. israel: jerusalem capital, split into israel-Judea, bc of heavy taxes
  35. jacob: grandson of Abraham, renamed israel
  36. jericho: 8500-7000 bc massive walls were blown down, settled by many people semetic hebrews, oldest city
  37. Judah: bottom half of israel when split fell to Chaldeans when temple was destroyed
  38. King CYrus: conquered the Chaldaens, lydians, and Medes, began the Immortals, pErsIAn
  39. King Darius: ruled persia at its greatest, created the satraps and satrapies system
  40. King david: deafeated goliath, coveted women, jerusalem became capital
  41. King Saul: first hebrew king
  42. King Soloman: built the temple of jerusalem, taxed heavily to finish temple--money in africa
  43. King Tutankhamen: son of nefertiti, son of akhnaton-immediately changed god back uder pressure from priests (tomb discovery)
  44. Kufu: perfect pyramid
  45. Maat: final test the guy that would weigh your heart against a feather, way of life--- balance ad harmony
  46. Memphis: capiyal of the united egypt, easier to go up down river
  47. Menes: united egypt--KING not pharoh of upper egypt, vreates capital---Memphis
  48. mesopotamia: part of fertlie crescent, where sumerian people settled, birth of civilization, class system
  49. Middle Kingdom: restuctured by he south, lower class protected, pharoh had less power, traded with outside countrys, gave shit to small people
  50. Monotheism: the belief in one god
  51. Mustaba: buried in sand
  52. Neanderthal: short stocky human, replaced by cromagnum
  53. Nebuchadnezzer: Chaldaen king, hanging gardens of babylon for wife, imported trees to make his own wate system
  54. New Kingdom: reunited by atmose age of the pharoh
  55. new stone age: neolithic age, agricultural revolution
  56. nile River: longest river, gift of the nile, flooded egypt to keep it fertile---aluvian soil
  57. Old Kingdom: founded by Menes, period of pyramids
  58. old stone age: paleolithic age, nomadic, hunting and gathering
  59. old testament: times before jesus, torah
  60. Osiris: god of agriculture, ruler of death
  61. papyrus: read that when woven made paper
  62. Persians: arians from india, now live in iran, greatest king was Cyrus
  63. pharoah: means great house, king chief priest GOD
  64. Phonecians: advanced people group settled in modern day Lebanon, mASTERS OF TRADE invented the color purple
  65. Phonetic alphabet: 22 letters
  66. Ra: sun god
  67. Ramses II: moses story ruled for 67 years in the 13th cent. battled for territory of canaan the fight ended in tie. ---treat of hittities
  68. Rosetta stone: black stone that had 3 different languages on it frnch dude discovered it.
  69. Sargon1: king of akkad, conquered sumer first emperor, ruled for 50 years when he died it fell apart
  70. satrapies: provinces under Darius
  71. satraps: rulers of satrapies under king darius
  72. scribe: write the history and stuff
  73. Semites: defined by language, made u the akkadian dynasty, palestine was semetic
  74. Sumer: wasnt an empire, each city rulle by king, 2000 gods-chief od, mud, polotheistic
  75. Thebes: City Akhnaton was the ruler of-Amun-Re to Aton
  76. Treaty of the Hittities: First treaty in history, battle over Caanan
  77. Tutmose III: great pharoah, ruled egypt at its largest. Nubian, conquered qalestine and syria
  78. Ur: was main city of sumer, used canas and levees for farming, sumerian city when sagaon 1 dies along with the akadian dynasty it rises again
  79. ur-nammu: first to write the laws for a city, since it is written it is harde to change
  80. Yahweh: god of hebrews
  81. Ziggurat: "hill of haven" center of sumerian city, the chief god lived in it.
  82. Zoaster: prophet created religious system with two gods---ahura mazda...ahriman