mid-term ancient history
Terms
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- cartographer
- map maker
- economics
- money, imports, and exports
- sequencing
- putting things in chronological order
- inference
- educated guess
- generalize
- broad statement
- maps
- political, physical, thematic
- egypt had what major civilization?
- Nile River Valley
- iraq had what major civilization?
- Tigris-Euphrates Valley
- india had what major civilization?
- Indus River Valley
- Eastern Asia and China had what major civilization?
- Huang River and Yellow River
- anthropologist
- study skeletons
- hominids
- human-like creatures (walk on 2 legs)
- artifacts
- objects of the past
- culture
- set of beliefs, the way we live (religion)
- mary leakey
- famous anthropologist (american)
- "Lucy"
- hominid found by Donald Johansen, 3.7 million years old
- Ice Age
- extremely cold, water levels dropped, created land bridges
- neanderthal
- homosapiens, wore animal skins, used fire, tools, caveman
- cro-magnon
- cave paintings, appeared 50,000 years ago in Europe, spear throwers
- Nile River
- world's longest river, flows north, egypt
- hieroglyphics
- pictographs, first used in Nile River Valley
- papyrus
- paper
- rosetta stone
- unlocked secret of the hieroglyphics
- pharoah
- ruler of egpyt
- menes
- had over 30 dynasties in egypt
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- amenhotep
- leader of egypt, tried to bring religious and social change
- scribes
- writers
- ziggurats
- architectual temples (sumeria)
- city-states
- state
- akkadians
- lasted for 150 yrs on the Fertile Crescent
- mesopotamia
- between tigris and euphrates river (fertile crescent)
- sargon
- most powerful akkadian king
- babylonians
- controlled fertile crescent
- hittites
- war-like people, invaded fertile crescent, first to smelt iron
- assyrians
- tried to take fertile crescent , capital ninevah
- chaldeans
- conquered fertile crescent
- persians
- conquered chaldeans, extended empire
- king nebuchadnezzar
- king of chaldeans, built hanging gardens of babylon
- cyrus
- great ruler of the persians, expanded empire to india
- zoroaster
- persian religious profit, said there were two forces in the world, good and evil
- phoenicians
- city-states, sea-faring, alphabet
- lydians
- first to coin money
- cathage
- north africa, punic wars
- hebrews
- lived in canaan
- abraham
- founder of the hebrews
- hacob
- grandson of adraham, had 12 sons, each son started a tribe, 12 tribes of israel
- israel
- 12 tribes established by jacon's sons
- exodus
- moses leading the hebrews from egypt
- moses
- does to the top of Mt.Sinai, talks to Yahweh
- 10 commandments
- given to moses by yahweh
- judges
- leaders of tribes, jacob's sons
- saul
- first king of israel
- david
- followed saul, made covenant with people
- solomon
- david's son, wise, israel reached its power
- torah
- first five books of the old testament
- mosaic law
- name for moses and his 10 commandments
- monsoons
- great winds
- harappan civilization
- (india) highly developed
- citadel
- fortress on hill