World History Chapter 1 (Mesopotamia)
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Chapter 1 Vocabulary for World History Honors class-- Mesopotamia, Early Civilizations
Questions and Answers
- 1.The foundation for Greek civilization; from the Mediterranean island of Crete
- 2.Great Mediterranean Sea seafaring traders of the ancient world, their 22-letter alphabet was the basis for the Roman and Greek alphabets
- 3.African kingdom; they ruled Egypt for a brief period
- 4.The people of the first great monotheistic faith; their God was more orderly and just than the gods of Mesopotamia
- 5.Written language of ancient Egyptians
- 6.Written language of Sumerians
- 7.Large, mud-brick temples of Sumer/Mesopotamia
- 8.Large stone monumental architecture of the Egyptians
- 9.The political organization of ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia
- 10.The political organization of ancient Egypt throughout the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
- 11.He experimented in monotheism during the New Kingdom; monotheism in Egypt died after him
- 12.She was Egypt's only female pharaoh
- 13.He's the first clearly identified individual in world history. Made his mark as emperor of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia
- 14.The God of the Jews
- 15.The so-called "first pharaoh," he united lower and upper Egypt
- 16.A group of Indo-European invaders from central Asia, they gave both Babylonia and Egypt trouble
- 17.A mythical Sumerian king, he was the hero of the first great epic of western literature
- 18.The law-giver, a great Babylonian king
- 19.The Golden Age of Egypt. A period of expansion outside of Egypt and the building of empire. The Hyksos and Nubians are routed, gold flows from Nubia and series of impressive pharaohs rule
- 20.Was a period of relative calm and increasing power among the temple priests, near the end, the Hyksos came calling
- 21.Was a period of isolation, happiness, and huge pyramid building
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