There was tool making
Scavenging and hunting for food was no longer necessary
They discovered how to cook meat
They used fire as a protection against dangerous animals
Irragation canals
Co-op planning for war
Religion
Exchange of goods beyond the tribe
Hitties+Egytians
Egyptians+Sumerians
Sumerians+Assyrians
Persians+Egyptians
One of a kind, a benevolent ruler
Aware of the need to centralize authority through appointed officials
Reluctant to make demands of tribute from conquered peoples
Able to utilize an organized army when danger appeared
The Hittie kingdom
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Persia
Sumeria
Egypt
Greece
Anatolia
Sumeria
Egypt
Greece
Anatolia
Collect rents
Provide employment for many
Provide weapon storage
Employ scribes to keep records
The king was only the youngest of the gods
Kings in the ritual ceremonies tried to command floods to end
The king was selected by the gods to rule, but was responsible to them like everyone else
Kingship was not hereditary
The first stage of planning for a pyramid
The instrument used for writing on parchment
The term for records that dealt with commercial transactions
The symbol writing on clay tablets
Old Testement
Epic of Gilgamesh
Code of Hammurabi
Epic of Akkad
Could never fail in a millitary undertaking
Was a god
Was a human with divine inspiration
Ruled as the "alter-ego" of the Nile God
Menes
Ramses
Amenhotep
Tutankhamen
A longing for death
Pyramid tombs
Mummificaion of the dead
Funerary art
A wedge shaped writing system
A form of picture writing in which physical figures represented words or sounds that could be combined to form words
The worlds first writing system
The only writing system of the earliest civs
Were really lacking in the Egtytian religion
Are associated with Ma'at
Were traditions Egyptians absorbed from the Hebrews during their captivity
Was the primary code of the Pharoh
Pyramid building
The invention of the solar calander
Superb engineering skills
The invention of the lunar calander
Ramses
Ahmose
Tutankhamen
Akhenaton
Libyans
Nubians
Assyrians
Greeks
Early development of iron
Early bone tools
Bronze weapons
The first war chariots
Building the hanging gardens
Maintaining a large library of clay tablets
Furthering the ideas of Zoroaster
Restoring Nineveh
Worship of Marduk
Judaism
Zoroastrianism
The monotheism of Akhenaten
A flat bottomed sailboat that moved heavy goods
A type of sandal that distinguished slaves from free peasants in Persia
A governor in the Persian Empire
A collection of cunniforms tablets
Zoroaster
Moses
Akhenaton
Joshua
Ahriman
Ma'at
Ahura Mazda
Isis
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