AP World History Ch 2 – Flashcards
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Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent)
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Civilization between Tigris and Euphrates River
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Sumeria
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First civilization in Mesopotamia
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Polytheism
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Belief in many gods
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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First written story
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ziggurat
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Temple in the form of a step- pyramid built in the center of a Mesopotamian city to honor the gods.
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cuneiform
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The wedge-shaped writing system that developed in Sumeria, the first writing system in the world.
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epic poems
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Narrations of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embody a people's or a nation's conception of its own past. This type of writing first developed in ancient Sumeria.
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pharaoh
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The leader of religious and political life in the Old Kingdom, he commanded the wealth, the resources, and the people of Egypt.
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Book of the Dead
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A book that preserved Egyptians' ideas about death and the afterlife.
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hieroglyphs
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Egyptian letters, including both ideograms and phonetic signs, written with a brush on papyrus sheets or on walls.
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Indo-European language family
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A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India.
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Phoenicians
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People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who dominated trade throughout the Mediterranean and spread the letter alphabet.
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Yahweh
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All- powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism.
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Zoroastrianism
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The religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster who emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil.
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it is more fragile and less likely to survive
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how does papyrus compare to clay tables as a writing material?
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older men
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in the Mesopotamian social system, who was the most powerful
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property and wealth records
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Sumerian scribes were trained largely so they could record
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seas
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according to Sumerian myths, what pre-existed all creation
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success in linking the concept of kingship with the hierarchy of the gods
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Hammurabi's political success resulted from his
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Menes
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ancient Egyptians belied that which pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom
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Seth, his brother
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in Egyptian religious system, who killed the god Osiris
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the Persian Empire
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the destruction of the Assyrian empire paved the way for the emergence of
