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| 294552749 | Anatolia | The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor | 0 | |
| 294552750 | Jericho | a village in Jordan near the north end of the Dead Sea | 1 | |
| 294552751 | ÇatalHüyük | one of the first Neolithic villages (located in modern day Turkey) | 2 | |
| 294552752 | Ziggurats | Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick | 3 | |
| 294552753 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 4 | |
| 294552754 | Epic of Gilgamesh | an epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction. | 5 | |
| 294552755 | Lex talionis | Law of retribution "an eye for an eye" | 6 | |
| 294552756 | Sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 7 | |
| 294552757 | Babylonians | they extended their own empire and therefore helped bring civilization to the Middle East; Hammurabi introduced his code of law; it established rules of procedure for courts of law and regulated property rights and the duties of family members, setting harsh punishments for crimes | 8 | |
| 294552758 | Assyrians | known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire | 9 | |
| 294552759 | Phoenicians | Sailing and trading people who had many colonies on the Mediterranean coast | 10 | |
| 294552760 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, the hittites vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria (p.64) | 11 | |
| 294552761 | Hebrews | a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him | 12 | |
| 294552762 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud | 13 | |
| 294552763 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 14 | |
| 294552764 | Sargon of Akkad | an ancient Mesopotamian ruler who reigned approximately 2334-2279 BC, and was one of the earliest of the world's great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region's first Semitic dynasty and was considered the founder of the Mesopotamian military tradition. | 15 | |
| 294552765 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) | 16 | |
| 294552766 | Code of Hammurabi | the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety | 17 | |
| 294552767 | Nebuchadnezzar | the 4th king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin and 4th Dynasty of Babylon and ruled for 23 years according to the Babylonian King List C.[i 2] He was the most prominent monarch of this dynasty and is best known for his victory over Elam and the recovery of the cultic idol of Marduk. | 18 | |
| 294552768 | Ur | an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River | 19 | |
| 294552769 | Tigris | an Asian river | 20 | |
| 294552770 | Euphrates | a river in southwestern Asia | 21 | |
| 294552771 | Jerusalem | capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel | 22 | |
| 294552772 | Paleolithic | second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC | 23 | |
| 294552773 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 24 | |
| 294552774 | Mummification | embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | 25 | |
| 294552775 | Pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top | 26 | |
| 294552776 | Hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 27 | |
| 294552777 | Hyksos | the people who invaded Egypt thus beginning the second Intermediate period during which the Hyksos ( a word meaning "foreigner) ruled as pharaohs in Lower Egypt and exacted tribute from the royal families in Thebes. | 28 | |
| 294552778 | Menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt | 29 | |
| 294552779 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66) | 30 | |
| 294552780 | Nile | the world's longest river (4180 miles) | 31 | |
| 294552781 | Bantu Migration | the movement of the bantu peoples southward throghout africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 | 32 | |
| 294552782 | Niger River | an African river | 33 | |
| 294552783 | Cataract | a large waterfall | 34 | |
| 294552784 | Congo River | a major African river (one of the world's longest) | 35 | |
| 294552785 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 36 | |
| 294552786 | Moksha | The Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. (179) | 37 | |
| 294552787 | Lawbook of Manu | Written by t founder of the human race according to Indian mythology. Lawbook dealt with proper moral behavior and social relation ships, including sex and gener relationships. Composed after the vedic age, but reflected the society constructed eariler under Aryan influence. Advisted men to treat women with honor and respect, but insisted that women remain subject to guidence from men. Also specificed duties of women were to bear children and maintain wholesome homes for their families. | 38 | |
| 294552788 | Rig Veda | a collections of 1, 017 Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500BC earlier; Hinduism's oldest text. | 39 | |
| 294552789 | Upanishads | A group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe. | 40 | |
| 294552790 | Dravidian | a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka | 41 | |
| 294552791 | Indo-European | A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia | 42 | |
| 294552792 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 43 | |
| 294552793 | Caste | (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus | 44 | |
| 294552794 | Varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) | 45 | |
| 294552795 | Jati | (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India | 46 | |
| 294552796 | Brahmins | priests | 47 | |
| 294552797 | Shudras | laborers, craftworkers and servants in the Indian caste system | 48 | |
| 294552798 | Indra | Chief deity of the Aryans; depicted as a colossal, hard-drinking warrior. | 49 |
