Early Civilizations, Mesopotamia Indus, and more
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- Silk
- a natural thing made by worms used to make clothes and some tools
- Euphrates River
- a river that is in the southern part of Mesopotamia
- Shang
- the dynasty the Great Yu made that his family descendants belonged to
- Mesopotamia
- Land between rivers
- Great Bath
- The largest public building in ancient times that seated a lot of people
- Abraham
- mans father of many nations
- Brahma
- The Creator
- patriarchal
- a society controlled by men
- Vedas
- four of these one is Rig_____ is a Hymn
- Moses
- gave the ten Commandments
- Huang-He River
- also Yellow River located in China bordering parts of Gobi Desert and Yellow Sea
- Himalayas
- a mountain range that borders the Indian sub continent
- Cuneiform
- a ancient method of writing based on pictographs
- Hebrews
- followed judaism
- Gilgamesh
- a king in Mesopotamia who ruled the Sumerian city-state Uruk
- Polytheism
- believing in many gods
- ethnocentric
- thinking that you are center of the world and are all great
- Canaan
- coastal plains along Mediterranean Sea
- city-state
- a city that had agricultral land around it and made up an area
- Tigris River
- a river that is in the northern part of Mesopotamia
- Scribes
- writers that could write Cuneiform
- Hammurabi's Code
- A set of laws that believed in the eye for an eye method
- Sargon 1
- A king with the first standing army who conquered a part of the world
- The ten Commandments
- laws sent by god to Moses that were to tel you what not to do
- Ziggurat
- a mud brick temple built in layers
- Mandate of Heaven
- the rule stating if a natural disaster comes the ruler shall be put out of service
- The wheel
- an inovention made in Mesopotamia to help agriculture
- Judaism
- A religion where they only believe in one God and no jesus
- Upanishads
- Hindu poems and means to sit near someone
- Khyber Pass
- a pass in the Himalayas that allowed trade between two civilizations
- Harappa
- a city in The Indus Valley that is so important sometimes called Harappan Civilization because it was so big and succesful
- oracle bones
- bones that when crack tell the oracle what to tell its customers
- The plow
- a invention based on the wheel that also increased agriculture
- Fertile Crescent
- An area if land that goes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf
- monotheism
- to believe in only one God
- subcontinent
- A area totally isolated from the other continent the same by a physical barrier
- Hinduism
- the religion that many indians serve that believes in a man named Brahma
- Phoenicians
- people that lived near Lebanon and had few resources so had biggest water trade route
- Reincarnation
- Same soul different life reincarnated into a different thing maybe higher or lower social class
- Indus River
- a river that goes from Pakistan and through India
- dynasty
- rule passed down through the generations of one family
- bronze
- a concoction of copper and tin
- Kharma
- a thing that is if you have good ________ you get more soul covering and bad_______ less covering
- alphabet
- consisted of Cuneiform and pictographs
- Aryans
- people originating from the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
- Moksha
- a point where you are at your Highest State of Being, Eternal peace, or Release of the Soul
- Mohenjo-Daro
- one of the cities in the Indus Valley that had a great big wall that is a model of city planning