History 111 EXAM 1 – Flashcards
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Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
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Neolithic, 10,000 years ago the new stone age began in the near east. They discovered farming, and domesticated animal, established villages , made tools, and pottery. Agriculture, is the deliberate planting and cultivation of crops.
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Mesopotamia
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A region from about 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies.
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Sumer
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A region of city-states in Mesopotamia that was home to the first civilization. The traditional view is that cities arose about 3000 B.C. in Sumer, the home of the earliest civilization.
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Hunters/Gatherers
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They had to find their food and gather it themselves in the Paleolithic age., Early people who traveled from place to place, hunting and collecting food
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Egalitarian
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A person who believes in the equality of all people
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Lex Talionis
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latin phrase for "an eye for an eye"
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Akkad
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A semitic city to the north of Sumer, Led by Sargon the great in 2350 B.C., Sargon built the first empire.
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Paleolithic age
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The old stone age 2.5 million - 8000 B.C. was known for the use of stone tools
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Ziggurat
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A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city. The Sumeranians built Ziggerats
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Marduk
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A Mesopotamian deity, chief god of the city of Babylon
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Hammurabi
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king of the Babylonian empire; creator of the code of Hammarabi; one of the worlds oldest codes of law
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Egypt
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After Alexander's death, the Ptolemies founded a dynasty in Egypt.
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who was Menes or Marmer
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A ruler of upper Egypt who conquered the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt
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The pyramid age or old kingdom
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About 2686 through 2181 B.C. when royal power had reached its height and the essential forms of Egyptian civilization crystallized.
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Old Kingdom
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From 2181 through 2040 when the nobles' growing power and the enormous expenditure of Egypt human and material resources on building pyramids led to the decline of the old Kingdom.
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Middle Kingdom
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From 2040 through 1786 when strong king reasserted pharaonic rule and reunited the state. Middle Kingdom.
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New Kindom
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In 1570 through 1085 resentful of foreign rule, the Egyptians became more militant and aggressive, they learns to use Hyksos weapons and drove out invaders. This began the New Kingdom.
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What is cunieform
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a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols invented by the sumerians around 3000 B.C..
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Ma'at
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the Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, represented by a goddess, often portrayed with a feather upon her head.
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Hatshepsut
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1st woman ruler. In 1480 BC Queen Hatshepsut came to power during the New Kingdom. She had herself crowned pharaoh.
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Amen-Re
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the king of all gods and the father of the pharaohs the temple to him was the largest one in Egypt
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Tutankhamen
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Successor of Akhenaton's from 1352 through 1344 B.C., Tutankhamen abandoned the capital at Amarna and returned to Thebes.
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Hyksos
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A group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C..
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Indo-Europeans
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A group pf semi-nomadic peoples who, around 2000 B.C.E., began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East
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Iron Age
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the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons
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Canaanites
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Part of the Israelite Population, Canaan is in the promised land, A member of a Semitic people inhabiting Canaan from late prehistoric times and who were conquered by the Israelites around 1000 B.C.
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Ur
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Was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia located at the site of modern
