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| 4809121529 | Akkadian Empire | Sargon the Great founded the _ that was dominated by the newly created town of Akkad. As a result of this, cultural diffusion of Sumerian ways spread throughout much of the area. This occurred pre 600 BCE in the Middle East. | 0 | |
| 4809121530 | Analects | were made by Confucius pre 600 BCE in China. They are based on a series of relationships and rules for Chinese people to live by. This helped to maintain the government. | 1 | |
| 4809123465 | Babylonians | led by Hammurabi to conquer Mesopotamia pre 600 BCE in the Middle East | 2 | |
| 4809124400 | Book of the Dead | is an Egyptian writing that was created pre 600 BCE in the Middle East. It contained recordings of spells or incantations to get you to the afterlife. This shows the importance of religion in their daily lives. | 3 | |
| 4809125671 | Book of Songs | one of the most notable works that has survived is the development of early Chinese poetry collected in the _. This was made in east Asia pre 600 BCE. | 4 | |
| 4809127399 | cataracts | is an area where the water is too swift and rocky to allow boats to pass. Cataracts on the Nile River protect Egypt from invasion. This was important in the Middle East pre 600 BCE. | 5 | |
| 4809127400 | Chavin | was a civilization in South America pre 600 BCE. The location of the Chavin's capital helped them control trade and gain important economic advantages over surrounding peoples. | 6 | |
| 4809128924 | Confucianism | is a belief system that began in China pre 600 BCE and continues to present day. It is based on the teachings of Confucius and his Analects | 7 | |
| 4809128925 | cultural diffusion | is when the religions, belief systems, science and technology, and arts and architecture got spread from one place to another. Sumerian ways got spread throughout much of the area, influencing a wide swath of land known as the fertile crescent. This happened pre 600 BCE. | 8 | |
| 4809130935 | cunieform | was wedge shaped writing used by the Mesopotamians in the Middle East pre 600 BCE that was very hard to learn because it included several hundred signs. | 9 | |
| 4809132961 | Epic of Gilgamesh | a long, written poem describing polytheistic gods who were wrathful. This caused the Mesopotamians to fear their gods, leading to a pessimistic outlook on life. This was really written to explain the unpredictable flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This was written by the Mesopotamians in the Middle East pre 600 BCE. | 10 | |
| 4809134394 | Hammurabi | led the Babylonians to conquer Mesopotamia pre 600 BCE in the Middle East | 11 | |
| 4809134395 | Hammurabi's Code | was a written set of laws in cuneiform used by the Babylonians pre 600 BCE. It was written on a large black rock in the center of town so that it was prominent and could not be tampered with. It was used in the Middle East, and it formally created social structure with forced labor and a formal judicial system based on social status. | 12 | |
| 4809136722 | Hittites | came through the crossroads to conquer Mesopotamia in the 1500s BCE. They came after the Babylonians, led by Hammurabi. | 13 | |
| 4809138265 | Hyksos | a people from modern day Turkey who had superior military power to the Egyptians because of their bronze weapons. | 14 | |
| 4809140256 | Late Bronze Age | is the era between 1700 and 1100 BCE and it is often characterized by an early version of cosmopolitanism, or the shared cultures and lifestyles that result when different groups are in regular contact. This happened in the Middle East. | 15 | |
| 4809141540 | Mandate of Heaven | happened pre 600 BCE in China/East Asia. The _ is where emperors would claim to have the religious right to rule China. This was an excuse to justify a revolution in China despite the fact that China was very secular, non-religious. | 16 | |
| 4809143280 | matrilineal | during Neolithic times, the female line of descent was important in determining family power, but this characteristic disappeared during the Shang era. This happened in east Asia. | 17 | |
| 4809143281 | Mesopotamia | was in the Middle East pre 600 BCE. It lacked natural boundaries, so it was invaded often. It was difficult for the governments to maintain power, this lead to the creation of city-states. | 18 | |
| 4809144854 | Minoans | named after legendary King Minos, and advanced civilization on the island of Crete pre 600 BCE. | 19 | |
| 4809145520 | Mohenjo-Daro | was a city pre 600 BCE in the Indus River Valley which is in South Asia. It was very organized, with uniform houses, grided equal roads, and sewer systems. They also traded across regions such as trading jade with China. The people of _ valued city planning. | 20 | |
| 4809148730 | Mycenaeans | came after the Minoans, an early group on the Greek mainland who came to dominate the area by the Late Bronze Era. They were warlike and aggressive. | 21 | |
| 4809148731 | Olmec | were a Mesoamerican civilization pre 600 BCE that created a created a calendar, traded jade, and made giant stone sculptures of heads. | 22 | |
| 4809149811 | pharaoh | the heart of the government in Egypt. Not considered just a king, but also a god. Egypt began to have pharaohs pre 600 BCE. Since the pharaoh was only one of the Egyptian's gods, this means that they were polytheistic. | 23 | |
| 4809149812 | shaman | were individuals who claimed the ability to contact the ancestors, and would interpret the communications by the patterns formed in the oracle bones. These people were important in east Asia pre 600 BCE. | 24 | |
| 4809152040 | Shang Dynasty | founded a kingdom that stretched north and south from the Huang He river valley, and lasted about 700 years. | 25 | |
| 4809152041 | shi | people in east Asia that learned Chinese pre 600 BCE. They were bureaucrats that were schooled in Confucianism and aided the emperor in maintaining the Chinese government. | 26 | |
| 4809153507 | Sumerians | a non-Semitic group who came into lower Mesopotamia pre 600 BCE. They are generally credited with building the earliest civilization with many of the seven characteristics that are important for civilizations. | 27 | |
| 4809153508 | theocracy | is a government run by religion or priests. Mesopotamia, in the Middle East, was a _ pre 600 BCE. The priests had the highest social class because they ran the government. | 28 | |
| 4809154971 | tribute | was a payment usually collected in the form of produce. The vassals collected these tributes, which supported the monarch and his court. These were important in east Asia pre 600 BCE. | 29 | |
| 4809158072 | Xia Dynasty | according to legend, an ancient dynasty, family based kingdom, called Xia came to control much of Egypt, but no archeological sites have been found, so its existence is still not proven. | 30 | |
| 4809159804 | Zhao Dynasty | In the 12th century BCE, the Shang rulers were overthrown by the Zhou Dynasty, a group from farther west that became the longest lived of all the Chinese dynasties. They kept written records, that people still have today. | 31 | |
| 4809159805 | ziggurats | were made by the Mesopotamians pre 600 BCE in the Middle East. They were monumental buildings that demonstrated how awesome the power of the city-states was. | 32 |
