AP World History Ch 2 Flashcards
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| 2872601854 | Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent) | Civilization between Tigris and Euphrates River | 0 | |
| 2872601855 | Sumeria | First civilization in Mesopotamia | 1 | |
| 2872601856 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 2 | |
| 2872601857 | Epic of Gilgamesh | First written story | 3 | |
| 2872601870 | ziggurat | Temple in the form of a step- pyramid built in the center of a Mesopotamian city to honor the gods. | 4 | |
| 2872601871 | cuneiform | The wedge-shaped writing system that developed in Sumeria, the first writing system in the world. | 5 | |
| 2872601872 | epic poems | Narrations of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embody a people's or a nation's conception of its own past. This type of writing first developed in ancient Sumeria. | 6 | |
| 2872601873 | pharaoh | The leader of religious and political life in the Old Kingdom, he commanded the wealth, the resources, and the people of Egypt. | 7 | |
| 2872601874 | Book of the Dead | A book that preserved Egyptians' ideas about death and the afterlife. | 8 | |
| 2872601875 | hieroglyphs | Egyptian letters, including both ideograms and phonetic signs, written with a brush on papyrus sheets or on walls. | 9 | |
| 2872601876 | Indo-European language family | A large family of languages that includes English, most of the languages of modern Europe, Greek, Latin, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, and Sanskrit, the sacred tongue of ancient India. | 10 | |
| 2872601877 | Phoenicians | People of the prosperous city-states in what is now Lebanon who dominated trade throughout the Mediterranean and spread the letter alphabet. | 11 | |
| 2872601878 | Yahweh | All- powerful god of the Hebrew people and the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism. | 12 | |
| 2872601879 | Zoroastrianism | The religion based on the teachings of Zoroaster who emphasized the individual's responsibility to choose between good and evil. | 13 | |
| 2872601880 | it is more fragile and less likely to survive | how does papyrus compare to clay tables as a writing material? | 14 | |
| 2872601881 | older men | in the Mesopotamian social system, who was the most powerful | 15 | |
| 2872601882 | property and wealth records | Sumerian scribes were trained largely so they could record | 16 | |
| 2872601883 | seas | according to Sumerian myths, what pre-existed all creation | 17 | |
| 2872601884 | success in linking the concept of kingship with the hierarchy of the gods | Hammurabi's political success resulted from his | 18 | |
| 2872601885 | Menes | ancient Egyptians belied that which pharaoh united Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom | 19 | |
| 2872601886 | Seth, his brother | in Egyptian religious system, who killed the god Osiris | 20 | |
| 2872601887 | the Persian Empire | the destruction of the Assyrian empire paved the way for the emergence of | 21 |