History Exam One
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Contains city states: Uruk, Eridu, Ur
One of the First Primary Civilizations in West at begining of 4th Millenium Bc - Sumer
- 14th Century Pharoh who developed new Aten-oriented religion (monotheism) and ultimately damaged Egypt's postiion in the ancient world
- Akhenaten
- King of the Hebrews 1000bc who unted isreal and made jerusalem his capital. campaigned against Philistines
- David
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built temple in Jerusalem to house the Ark of the Covenant
kept a harem of 700 concubines and 300 wives
maintained a huge standing army
foreced people to spend four months a year on his building projects - Solomon
- Capital of Babylonia in Mesopotamia on Eurphrates. established in 1750
- Babylon
- Semetic people who invaded Egypt and ruled it during the 17th and 16th centries
- Hyksos
- false god or idol
- baal
- form of writing invented 3100 BC
- Cuneiform
- Civilization that settled in northern mesopetamia. The semetic speakers were responsible for spreading urbanism to the North West
- Assyrians
- the anceint greek civilization that settled in greece during the 2nd millenium bc and organized around small citadels
- Mycenaeans