chapter 1 mid term
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- Sargon the Akkad
- a fierce ruler who conquered Mesopotamia
- cannana
- ancient home of the hebrews
- Pharaohs
- the rulers of Egypt
- Fertile Crescent
- a region in the Middle East that looks like crescent and is highly fertile.
- hunter gather
- a person who gathers and hunts to make a living
- catal hayuk
- the first city ever located in turkey
- Cultural diffusion
- the diffusion of ones cultures ideas a long other cultures due to trade etc.
- aryans
- the high class of india
- hittites
- indo european speakers
- Subcontinent
- a part of a continent that is loose
- Dynasty
- a hierarchical rule by generations of a single family.
- chariots
- an invention in which horse pulls a wheel cart
- isreal
- a geographic place where judaism was located
- 10 commandments
- the laws of the jewish people
- torah
- the first 5 book of the jewish bible
- ur
- a city state in mesopotamia in area of summer.
- moses
- the person who led the exile from egypt because they were under slavery
- cuneiform
- a type of writing developed by people living in mesopotamia
- king soloman
- the king of judaism
- vedas
- the hindu bible
- Hammurabi
- a person who made the doctrine of laws in Sumer, he made the eye for an eye type of laws.
- culture
- unique way of life
- indo european
- people who livedi the steppes near europe and talked and the language of indo european which is thought to be the basic of 50 of todays languages
- City-state
- region what is ruled by its on gov. and its own ruler
- neolithic age
- an era called the new stone age
- minoans
- people who dominated sea trading
- buddahism
- a religion were followers belive that life is full of suffering because of desire
- Feudalism
- a way of ruling in which the people paid protection when richer people gave them land
- moksha
- the pinnacal of spiritual belief
- nomads
- a person who does not setle in one place for long
- homo erectus
- the speciesfor older types of human
- ziggurat
- a tmple shaped structure which was used to pray for good harvest and oracle bones
- judah
- the south section of the kingdom
- mahabaharata
- a great epic of indiathat reflected the struggles that took place in india as aryans moved relentlesty
- caste system
- the social system established in india
- Nile delta
- the delta formed by the Nile when it empties in the Atlantic
- Monhenjo- Daro
- a city that was considered technological advanced for its time
- Zhou dynasty
- dynasty that developed after the fall of shang, claimed to have the mandate of heaven
- hominid
- all species that walk upright
- Oracle bones
- bones used for sacrifice to ask questions to gods
- prehistory
- the era from 4 million to the neolithic revolution
- Indus river valley
- the valley made by the Indus river where people settled to farm for agriculture
- domestication
- taming of wild animals for use by humans
- Dynastic cycle
- the cycle which all dynasties in china faced, they got and lost the mandate of heaven.
- anatolia
- an island off the coast of europe
- Menes
- the first Egyptian pharaoh unites north and south Egypt
- karma
- the good and bad deeds in your real life will put you in your other life
- knossos
- the capital of minoans
- Hieroglyphics
- the written language by the Egyptians
- Polytheism
- a religion that believes in more than one god.
- Shang dynasty
- Dynasty in china that established the mandate of heaven.
- eightfolk path
- a set of guidlines to achiving enlighment
- four noble truth
- statments that life is full of desire and it causes suffering
- janism
- all life is sacred and can not be touched
- convenant
- a promise or connection
- nirvana
- the consequence of meditating they have achived perfection
- paleoithic age
- an era calld the old stone age
- Monsoons
- storms that helped fertilize the land in the Indus River
- artifact
- human made object such as tools
- artisan
- crafter who works wth hands to make work of art
- institutions
- a set up where people go to learn or work
- enlighment
- when people hve achived a conection with nature and have meditated for many yeasr they have found the answer
- siddartha gautama
- founder of buddahism
- abraham
- the founder of the religion
- Theocracy
- the belief of ruling with the power of god
- bronze age
- the age where bronze was invented and started to use it instead of copper
- slash and burn farming
- a tecnique to farm were you burn all the trees and use the fertile land for crops
- Irrigations
- the control over water with channels or human technology.
- homo sapiens
- the spieces name for modern humans.
- specialization
- to specialize in a specific job
- phonecians
- the most powerfull traders
- reincarnation
- the belief that you can come back to life
- varna
- skin color
- Mandate of heaven
- the belief that the dynasty has the mandate of heaven.
- steppes
- high hills in weatern european
- judaism
- a religion followed byt he people of hebrew
- hinduism
- the main religion in india were thou people beliv in 3 gods, the creator, destoyer, and protector
- Huang he
- a river in china very important for early agriculture developing in china