WH1 Unit1
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- glacier
- a moving river of ice
- city-state
- independent, self-governing community that includes a city and surrounding territory
- stone age
- this age begun when tools and weapons were made out of stone
- migration
- group of ppl who moved from one region and settled in another
- Nilver River
- River valley civilization in egypt
- civilization
- an advanced level of culture
- ritual
- a ceremony
- organization, division of labor, system of writing, organization of religion, class structure
- 5 features of civilization
- dynasty
- a family of rulers
- barter
- to exchange one good for another; didnt work b/c required a double coincidence of wants
- Ur
- Abraham was from what city in sumeria called chaldea??
- circa
- c. or ca. means "about that time"
- The fertile crescent
- the Tibris/Euphrates river valley civilizations also called_______
- hieroglyphics
- the writing of the egyptians
- Ziggurat
- a large clay-brick temple with several levels
- extinct
- no longer in existence
- the bronze age
- was named so because of the new copper and stone added to the making of weapons
- BC
- Before Christ's birth
- cuineform
- wedge shaped writing of the sumerians
- archaeology
- scientific study of material evidence from the past
- pharaoh
- a ruler/monarch of egypt
- rosetta stonce
- carved in 196 bc, contained inscriptions in three kinds kinds of writings
- multiplication, division, geometry, 360 circle, number system based on zero, 60 min hour
- the mesopatamians developed the following
- tibris/euphrates
- the earliest river valley civilization
- excavate
- to dig up, unearth or move
- Benistum rosetta stone
- the discovery tht became the key to understanding the mesopatamiam cuniform writing
- Mesopatamia
- civilization tht developed the wheel and the sail
- papyrus
- paper made from reed-like plant
- hammurabi's code
- 1st set of codified laws
- codified
- written down in exact order form
- nomad
- person who wandered place to place rather than having a permanent home
- AD
- anno domini, "in the year of our lord"
- prehistoric
- period of time before people kept written records
- the changing positon of planets and the 12 month calendar based on the phases of the moon
- the mesopatamians developed these things in astronomy
- fire
- this provided warmth, fuel and preserved food
- mesopatamia
- word which means sumeria