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