WHIRCh2Rev#2
Ch2 Review #2
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- Hammurabi
- Babylonian king who developed a strict code of laws for his people.
- Knossos
- Most famous palace of the Minoan civilization.
- Exodus
- Name for the flight of the Hebrews from Etypt through the Sinai to the Promised Land.
- Calligraphy
- Name for Chinese writing form.
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Chaldean king who conquered the kingdom of judah and destroyed Jerusalem.
- Covenant
- Term meaning "Solemn Agreement."
- Volcano
- The Minoan civilization was greatly weakened by this type of natural disaster.
- Hebrew
- David and Solomon were ???? Kings who established their country as a strong independent state.
- Gods
- The Shang king was believed to be descended from the ????
- Walls
- Frescoes were used to decorate the ???? of many Minoan homes.
- Nubian
- Kushite pharaohs who united Egypt for the first time since the flas of the New Kingdom: ???? Dynasty
- Hatshepsut
- Egyptian Queen who was one of the few women to rule in her own right.
- Mycenean
- The Trojan War was the last great enterprise of the ???? civilization
- Moses
- Early Hebrew law was based on the teachings of ????
- Yahweh
- According to the Hebrews, ???? was Lord and Creator of the universe.
- Sargon
- The first great empire builder in history
- Wu Wang
- Zhou leader who seized control of the Shang capital in the early 110s BC
- Zhou
- This dynasty took advantage of the weaknesses of the Shang dynasty and replaced it.
- Iron
- The Hittites used weapons made of ????
- Diaspora
- Term refering to the capture and relocation of the people of Israel.
- Plow
- This technology is important for allowing cultivation beyond river valleys
- Sanskrit
- Form of writing used in Indo-Aryan society.
- Animism
- The belief that all things in nature have a spirit.
- Cuneiform
- The writing style of the Sumerians and the Akkadians.
- Akhenaton
- Egyptian Pharaoh who believed that the supreme god was the sun, called Aton.
- Yahweh
- The Hebrew name for God.
- Israel
- What was the name of the strong Independent Hebrew state.
- Torah
- The name for the five books of the teachings of Moses
- Ten Commandments
- Hebrew moral laws written on stone tablets.
- War Chariots
- Developed by the Indo-Europeans from the Sumerian four-wheeled cart.
- Bronze
- The Hyksos used weapons made of /??
- Twelve
- The number of Tribes of Israel
- Phoenicians
- Created the phoenitic alphabet
- Assyrian
- This civilization captured and relocated manyu of the Israelite civilization.
- Patriarchal
- A society in which the fathers exercised strong control over their families.
- Alphabet
- This was first developed by the Phoenicians, and we still use a variation of it today.
- Rig-Veda
- The oldest of the Vedas, or Indo-Aryan religious texts.
- Frescoes
- Paintings directly on plaster walls.
- Varnas
- Indican society was divided into four classes, castes, or ?????
- Feudalism
- In this system, the king owns all the land and gives control of some of the land to the lords.
- Homer
- Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- Tutankhamen
- Boy Pharaoh of Egypt whose tomb of gold was on tour recently
- Religion
- As Hebrew tribes were captured and moved from place to place, they kept their identity along with their ????
- Ten Commandments
- The ???? taught a moral system of behavior emphasizing worship, family, and justice.
- Ganges
- Major river in northern India.
- Polytheism
- Belief in multiple gods
- Harappan
- Name for the civilization which arose around the Indus River valley....we can not read their writing.
- Mycenaean
- This civilization is described in the Illiad and the Odyssey
- Code of Hammurabi
- Name for the strict code of Babylonian laws.
- Aramaic
- Assyrian language which became almost universally used throughout the region.
- Monotheism
- Belief in a single god
- Philistines
- Settled and controlled Canaan...skillful with ceremics and iron.
- Vindhya
- Southern India was isolated from northern India by the ??? mountains.
- Vedas
- Indo-Aryan hymns to the gods.