7276867636 | Gilgamesh | A legendary king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk who is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium bc. | 0 | |
7276869205 | Epic of Gilgamesh | The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. | 1 | |
7276874641 | Hammurabi's Laws | The Code of Hammurabi was a comprehensive set of laws, considered by many scholars to be the oldest laws established. | 2 | |
7276876383 | Code of Ur-Nammu | The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. | 3 | |
7276877707 | Ziggurat | A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. | 4 | |
7276881254 | Semitic migrants Sumerian city states | Relating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the early, non-Semitic element it contributed to Babylonian civilization. | 5 | |
7276883778 | Empire | An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. | 6 | |
7276886310 | Iron Metallurgy | Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements. | 7 | |
7276887872 | Cuneiform | Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit. | 8 | |
7276890505 | Ten Commandments | The divine rules of conduct given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. | 9 | |
7276893133 | Polynesians | A native or inhabitant of Polynesia. | 10 | |
7276947676 | Monotheism | The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 11 | |
7276950136 | Hebrews | A member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine | 12 | |
7276952387 | Judaism | An ancient monotheistic Abrahamic religion. | 13 | |
7276954091 | Phoenician Trade | They traded mainly with the Greeks, trading wood, slaves, glass and powdered Tyrian purple. | 14 | |
7276956316 | Hieroglyphics | Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians | 15 | |
7276958630 | Alphabet and the Phoenicians | The Phoenician alphabet is derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world. | 16 | |
7276959524 | Hittites | A member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from c. 1700 to c. 1200 bc. | 17 | |
7276960730 | War Chariots | A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome. | 18 | |
7276963087 | Vedic Religion | The ancient religion of the Aryan peoples who entered northwestern India from Persia c. 2000-1200 bc. | 19 | |
7276965190 | Zoroastrianism | A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century bc. | 20 |
AP World History Chapter 2 Vocab Flashcards
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