AP World History Flashcards
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| 7251174366 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics. | 0 | |
| 7251181913 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature. | 1 | |
| 7251186563 | Hammurabi's Laws | The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia | 2 | |
| 7251195686 | Code of Ur-Nammu | Is the oldest known law code surviving today. | 3 | |
| 7251198088 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories. | 4 | |
| 7251208327 | Semitic Migrants | People who migrated and who spoke tongues in the semitic family of languages, including Akkadian,Aramaic,Hebrew and Phonecian. | 5 | |
| 7251216293 | Sumerian City States | Were centers of political and military authority and their jurisdiction extended into the surrounding regions. | 6 | |
| 7251228693 | Empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. | 7 | |
| 7251276189 | Iron Metallurgy | 8 | ||
| 7251277814 | Cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. | 9 | |
| 7251280618 | Ten Commandments | are laws or rules handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. | 10 | |
| 7251283324 | Polynesian | a native or inhabitant of Polynesia, or a person of Polynesian descent. | 11 | |
| 7251286938 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 12 | |
| 7251291012 | Hebrews | a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine | 13 | |
| 7251294674 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 14 | |
| 7251297169 | Phoenician Trade | among the greatest traders of their time and owed much of their prosperity to trade. | 15 | |
| 7251303493 | Hieroglyphics | a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems. | 16 | |
| 7251306903 | Alphabet and the Phoenicians | Phoenician is a "consonantal alphabet", also known as "abjad", and only contains letters representing consonants. Vowels are generally omitted in this phase of the writing system. | 17 | |
| 7251323955 | Hittites | The Hittites were a powerful people from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) who emerged as a rival to Assyria. It is believed that the Hittites were the first to develop iron metallurgy. | 18 | |
| 7251329449 | War Chariots | A chariot is a small carriage pulled by horses. | 19 | |
| 7251332193 | Vedic Religion | the ancient religion of the Aryan peoples who entered northwestern India from Persia c. 2000-1200 BC. It was the precursor of Hinduism, and its beliefs and practices are contained in the Vedas. | 20 | |
| 7251334225 | Zoroastrianism | is one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions. | 21 |