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- Pheonician travel
- by ships- worlds most harbors- found carthage- held lumber silverware ivory and slaves
- Hunter Gatherers
- people who hunt animals and gather plants
- Egyptian Empire
- made to prevent future envasions- they sent gold to their captures
- democrocy
- a type of goverment in which people rule themselves - birthplace was greece- "Rule of People"
- Legions
- group of 6,000 roman soldiers
- Ashurbanipla
- Assyrians most famous ruler- created world's first library
- Satrap
- governers who rule provinces- they collected taxes- were judges- stopped rebellion- ruled under Darius
- first empire
- akkadian Empire was the first- established by Sargon- from Persian Golf to Med. Sea
- Menes
- Wanted to unify upper and lower Egypt, had the first dynasty, wore the double crown, married a princess from lower Egypt
- Location of indus river valley
- inside present day pakastan
- hammurabi
- cities greatest monarch- brilliant war leader- made Babylonian Empire- made hammurabi Code- ruled 40 yrs
- Republic
- people elect leaders to govern them- created by romans- people could only stay in leadership for 1 year
- Sidhartha Gautama
- prince who had almost everything- missing something- found Buddah- wandered 6 years
- Diaspora
- scattering of the Jews outside of Israel and Judah- Persians defeated Chaldeans- allowed the jews to go back to rebuild the temple
- Pyramids
- huge stone tombs with four sides and a point at top- held the Pharoes and kings- later were raided for their treasure
- Embalming
- mummies- specially treated bodies- keeps them from decaying- took sveral weeks
- Mesopatamia
- "Land between the Rivers"-in the fertile crescent- in between tigris and Euphrades river - settled in 1200 by hunter gatherers- flooded by the n ile- very fertile
- Oligarchy
- goverment in only a few people rule
- Hyksos
- from SW Asia, used horses and chariots- used advanced weapons- Ahmos drove them out
- Irrigation
- way of supplying water to an area of land, stopped floods, Mesopatania envented it
- early tools
- smaller more complex than old stone age- defined middle stone age- hooks, spears, and bow and arrow
- Aryans
- took over indus river valley- skilled warriors- were orrigionaly nomads- didnt have any big cities or one main ruler- eavh tribe had its own leader
- Hieroglyphics
- Egyptian writing system- one of worlds first writing systems, used ore than 600 symbols
- Obelisk
- tall four sided pillar, pointed at top, stands on either side of gates
- Ziggurat
- largest most impresive buildings, pyramid shaped temple
- veto
- say no to- prohibit- used checks and balances
- Sumarian writing-
- cuiniform- 1st system of writing -
- Immortals
- group of 10,000 soldiers fighting for Pursia
- Kush' downfall
- overgrazed land resulted in no soil- blew away- wood was scrace- loss of trade and little weapons
- Phalanx
- was a group warriors who stood close together in a square- Phillip used this method to defeate Greece
- Pharaoh
- title used by rulers of Egypt- Menes was considerer- Pharoe means "Great House" they were both king and god
- Unified Egypt
- Menes unified Egypt- Menes wore both crowns that symbolized upper and lower Egypt-
- Papyrus
- long lasting paper- material made from pressed reeds- used brushes with ink
- Neolithic Era
- New Stone Age, began 10,000 yrs ago in SW Asia, After Middle Stone Age, Used new tool and fire
- delta
- triangle shaped area land made of soil deposited by the river- make up 2/3 of Egypt's farmland
- new farming techniques
- domestication of plants and animals used irrigation and canals- used animals to plow and farm
- Dynasty
- series of rulers from 1 family, Menes was first Dynasty
- Specialization
- type of arrangement in which each workers specializes in in a particular task
- Scribe
- writer- kept records- becoming a scribe was a way to move up in social class-
- Forum
- Heart of Rome- popular place for social time- where the laws were displayed
- Wealth of Kush
- trade gold, pottery, iron tools, slaves, ivory,- all wealth from trading
- first Emperor
- Sargon was first Emperor- found in a river- used bows and arrows- established Akkadian empire- ruled 30 yrs
- Disciples
- fallowers- group of men who fallowed Jesus- leader after Jesus' death was Peter
- Nile
- longest river in the world- from Africa to Med. sea- 4000 mi long- had large cataracts which made travel hard- flooded the banks- made rich silk- created a natural land barrier-had large amounts of food suplly
- two parts of Egypt
- Southern region (upper) and Northern Region (lower)
- Agora
- greek market place- place to shop and gossip
- shadoof
- a pulley that draws water
- Rosetta Stone
- stone slab inscribed with heiroglyphics- had Greece and Latin- Egyptian writing, key to deciphering the language
- Cuiniform
- Sumarian writing, written with clay tablets, used stylus, early writing, used pictograph
- Polis
- greek city State
- Indian Caste-
- devided sociaty into groups based on birth, wealth, occupation,
- Fresco
- artwork using plaster- popular in Rome
- Inoculation
- Injecting the body with a small amount of a disease to create an imunity
- Egypt vs Kush
- Kush bc rich with trade so Egypt attacked in fear of them taking over- Kush remained in Egypt's rule for 450 years and greatly influenced Egyptians
- Hatshepsut
- increased trade and encouraged achitechture- remebered for monuments- step son destroyed all her accomplishments
- 1st Kushian Pharoah
- Shabaka- declared himslef king- built many new temples
- Monotheism
- one god- one religion
- Empire
- land with different territories and people under a single rule, first emporer wasn Sargon with the Akkadian Empire
- Polytheism
- many Gods,