Spodek Chapters 2, 3, and 4 Terms Flashcards

87761147	Amenhotep	Pharoah of Egypt who adopted a new monotheistic religion	0
87761148	Amon-re	The most popular and influential religious figure/god through out Egyptians history	1
87761149	Andes Mountains	Home to the early Incan Civilization	2
87761150	Archaeology	The study of cultures through their material remains.	3
87761151	Aryans	A group of nomadic and pastoral people who spread to south Asia. They reached the Ganges Valley in 1000 BCE and became the successors of the Harappan civilization of India.	4
87761152	Bantu	Early language of Africa	5
87765793	Chavin	An early civilization that preceded The Incas in Northern Peru.	6
87765794	Chinampa	Floating gardens that were farmed on by meso-american civilizations.	7
87765795	Citadels	A strong building to protect form attacks.	8
87765796	CIty-State/Polis	Self-governing city surrounded by its territory.	9
87765797	Cosmo-magical City	A city deemed to be sacred or has a mythological association. Uruck of Mesopotamia is said to have been ruled by the great her/king Gilgamesh.	10
87765798	Cuneiform	The first written language characterized by its slim, triangular elements.	11
87792025	Erlitou	The center or The Xia Dynasty in China during the bronze age.	12
87792026	Fertile Crescent	Geographical area of fertile land stretching from the Nile to the Tigris/Euphrates	13
87792027	Giza	Home of the most famous pyramids and tombs including the Sphinx which looks like a lion but is said to depict King Kafre. Located near the modern city of Ciaro.	14
87792028	Hammurabi	King who connected Sumer and Akkad into one large superpower under the Code of Hammurabi.	15
87792029	Harappa	One of the largest urban settlements in the Indus Valley.	16
87792030	Hieroglyphs	A system of writing derived from pictograms and ideograms which is responsible for giving archaeologists insight to the culture of the Egyptians.	17
87792031	Historiography	The study of history and the writing of history.	18
87792032	Ideogram	A character in a writing system that represents the idea of a thing rather than its name.	19
87792033	Indus River	One of the 7 first sites of primary urbanization located in West India.	20
87792034	Innovation	The independent development of ideas.	21
87792035	Diffusion	The spread of techniques or ideas.	22
87814768	Jenne Jeno	The first well known indigenous city in sub saharan Africa where inhabitants lived in neighboring independent clusters rather than a single urban center	23
87814769	Jericho	An ancient city of Palestine, north of the dead sea	24
87814770	Longshan Culture	A more sophisticated modern improvement of the neolithic culture	25
87814771	Maya	A meso-American civilization characterized by its developed cities, monumental architecture and numerous amounts of sacrifice	26
87814772	Mesopotamia	A civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The oldest of seven locations that innovated primary urbanization	27
87814773	Mohenjo-daro	One of the largest cities of the indus valley civilization of ancient India	28
87817460	Niger River	First urbanized by the nomadic Bantu people	29
87817461	Nile River	Provided natural irrigation and fertile land to the early Egyptians	30
87817462	Nomes	The administrative units of upper Egypt	31
87817463	Old Kingdom	Period from 2700 to 2200 BCE that fell due to weakened central government.	32
87817464	New Kingdom	Period from 1550 to 1050 BCE when irrigation improved and kings became known as Pharohs	33
87817465	Olmecs	A southern Mexican civilization that was the predecessor of Maya and Aztec	34
87817466	Oracle Bones	Pieces of animal bones used by Shang dynasty priests to predict the future of their dynasty.	35
87821015	Osiris and Horus	Two of the most important god in Eqyptian Civilizations.	36
87821017	Patriarchy	A system of society where the male is the head of the family.	37
87821018	Pictogram	A pictoral representation of an object or thought.	38
87821020	Popul Vah	Mayan collection of creation myths.	39
87821022	Rosetta Stone	A rock that is covered in inscriptions of hieroglyphs, Egyptian Demotic and Greek.	40
87821023	Semites	Arabs, Armenians, Jews and Ethiopians	41
87821024	Shang Dynasty	This Dynasty came after the Xia Dynasty and before the Zhou Dynasty. Oracle bones were used during this dynasty.	42
87821025	Specialization	Devoting oneself to a particular occupation.	43
87821027	Sumerians	Lived in modern day Iran and Iraq.	44
87821028	Teotihuacan	One of the first areas of urbanization in the new world.	45
87821030	The Book of the Dead	A compilation of many ancient Egyptian texts about the security of eternal happiness after death.	46
87821031	The Epic of Gilgamesh	A series of tales about the hero Gilgamesh.	47
87821032	The Great Pyramids of Khufu	A monument in Egypt showing that the Pharoah was seen as a god	48
87821034	Tikal	ONe of the largest, most elaborate Mayan cities. It was a religious and political city.	49
87821035	Toltecs	A central AMerican Civilization in the Valley of Mexico. It was widespread from the Yucatan to Northern Mexico.	50
87821037	Xia Dynasty	Dynasty during CHina's bronze age from 2700 BC to 2600	51
87821038	Yangshao Culture	Among the first people to settle around the Huang He river.	52
87821040	Zapotecs	Small Meso American society in the Oaxaca Valley.	53
87821041	Zhou dynasty	Dynasty with many advancements in religion and administration from 1122 to 480.	54
87821042	Ziggurats	rectangular tiered temple constructed by ancient mesopotamians.	55
87821043	Zimbabewes	Local rulers lived in these for protection in modern Zimbabwe and Mozambique.	56