ap world history Flashcards
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| 7265117132 | gilgamesh | A legendary king of the Sumerian city state of Uruk who is supposed to have ruled sometime during the first half of the 3rd millennium BC | 0 | |
| 7265123629 | epic of gilgamesh | The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature | 1 | |
| 7265129397 | hammurabi's laws | a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC | 2 | |
| 7265136571 | code of ur-nammu | the oldest known law code surviving today. | 3 | |
| 7265144006 | ziggurat | a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. | 4 | |
| 7265148792 | empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress | 5 | |
| 7265154533 | iron metallurgy | preindustrial sub-Saharan Africa encompasses both studies of the technology and archaeology of indigenous iron production | 6 | |
| 7265160908 | 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 | 7 | |
| 7265164213 | ten commandments | laws or rules handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. | 8 | |
| 7265168416 | polynesian | relating to Polynesia, its people, or their languages | 9 | |
| 7265182242 | monothesim | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. | 10 | |
| 7265184829 | hebrews | a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham | 11 | |
| 7265188205 | judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews | 12 | |
| 7265191486 | hieroglyphics | enigmatic or incomprehensible symbols or writing | 13 | |
| 7265202208 | hittites | a member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria | 14 | |
| 7265205032 | war chariots | An ancient horse-drawn two-wheeled vehicle used in war, races, and processions | 15 | |
| 7265207276 | vedic religion | It was the precursor of Hinduism, and its beliefs and practices are contained in the Vedas. | 16 | |
| 7265217069 | zoroastrianism | a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC | 17 |