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- Sea Peoples
- invaders who destroyed the Egyptian Empires; unidentifable because they went thier own ways after thier attacks
- Great Silk Road
- the name of the major route for silk trade
- Hapiru
- a name meaning homeless, independent nomads, it represents a group that were partially made up by Hebrews
- Patriarchal
- societies in which the most power is held by older adult men, especially those from the elite groups
- Epicureanism
- a practical philosophy founded by Epicurus, it argued that the principal good of human life is pleasure
- Mystery religions
- called such because they featured a body of ritual not to be divulged to anyone not intiated into the cult
- Politeuma
- a political corporation the jews were permitted to create which gave them a great deal of autonomy
- Nobles
- the top level of Sumerian society that consisted of the king and his family, the chief priests, and a high palace officals
- Indo-European
- refers to a large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, Greek, Latin, Persian, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India
- Magi
- a priestly class developed among the Medes to offical
- Neolithic Period
- the period between 7000 and 3000 B.C. that serves as the dividing line between anthroplogy and history, refers to stone tools used
- Dogmatic School
- a medical school that used speculation as part of research, as well as dissection
- Irrigation
- the solution to the problem of arid climates and scant water suppiles, a system of watering land and draining to pervent build up of salt in the soil
- Hykos
- called Rulers of the Uplands by the Egyptians, these people began to settle in the Nile Delta shortly after 1800 B.C
- Empiric School
- a medical school that concentrated on the observation and cure of illnesses, they also laid heavier stress on the use of drugs and medicine to treat illnesses
- Hellenistic
- the new culture that arose when Alexander overthrew the Persian Empire and began spreading Hellenism Greek culture, language, thought and way of life as far as India.
- Babylonian Captivity
- a period of time in 587 B.C when the survivors of a Babylonian attack on the southern kingdom of Judah were sent into exile in Babylonia
- Pharaoh
- the leader of religious and political life in the Old Kingdom, he commanded the wealth resources and people of Egypt
- Natural law
- stoic concept that as all men were brothers, partook divine reason, and were in harmony with the universe, one law a part of natural order of life governed them all
- Covenant
- a formal agreement between people
- Tyche
- means fate or chance or doom, a capricious and sometime malevolent force
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian form of writing, used to describe the strokes of the stylus
- Baal
- an ancient semitic fertility god represented as a golden calf
- Clients
- free men and women who were dependent on the nobility in return for their labor they recieived small plots of land to work for themselves
- Monotheism
- the belief in one god: when appiled to Egypt it means that only Aton among the trandtional Egyptian deities was god
- Pyramid
- the burial place of pharaohs; also symbolized the kings power and his connection with the sun god
- Sovereign
- independent, autonomous state run by it's citizens, free of any outside power or restraint
- Polytheism
- the worship of several gods; this was the tradition of Egyptian religion
- Amon- Ra
- an Egyptian god, consisting of Amon, a primevial sky-god, and Ra, the sun god
- Book of the Dead
- an Egyptian book that preserved their ideas about death and the afterlife it explains that after death the soul left the body to become part of the divine
- Heliocentric theory
- theory of Aristrachus that the earth and the planets revolve around the sun
- Koine
- a common dialect of the greek language that infulenced the speech of peninsular Greece
- Bronze Age
- the period in which the production and use of bronze implements became basic to society; bronze made farming more efficient and revoluntionized warfare
- Stoicism
- the most popular of Hellenistic philosophy, it considers nature an expression of divine will, people could be happy only when living accordance with nature
- Ahuramazda
- the chief Iranian god who was the creator and benefactor of all living creatures; unlike Yahweh, he was not a lone god
- Theocracy
- government ruled by a priestly order
- Law Code
- a proclamation issued by the Babylonian king Hammurabi to establish law and justice in the language of the land, thereby prompting the welfare of the people