Vocab Chapter 2 Flashcards

The first River Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E.

124835775	Babylon	most important city in Mesopotamia	124835775
124835776	Semitic	refers to a family of related langues that have long been spoken in parts of the western Asia and northern Africa	124835776
124835777	city state	independent urban center and argricultural territory	124835777
124835778	Hammurabi	initiated a series of military campaigns	124835778
124835779	scribes	trained professionals who applied their reading and writing skills to tasks of admiristration	124835779
124835780	ziggurat	a multistory, mudbrick,pyramid shaped tower approached by ramps and stairs	124835780
124835781	amulets	small charms meant to protect the bearer from evil	124835781
124835782	cuneiform	edge shaped writing	124835782
124835783	ma'at	the divine authorized order of the universe	124835783
124835784	Memphis	capital of old kingdom of Egypt	124835784
124835785	thebes	capital of middle and New kingdom of Egypt	124835785
124835786	hieroglyphics	earlist form of writing system full of pictured sybols	124835786
124835787	papyrus	type of ink for the writing system	124835787
124835788	Harappa	site of one of the great cities in Indus Valley civilization	124835788
124835789	Mohenjo Daro	largest city of Indus Valley civilization	124835789