World History - Unit 1 Flashcards

7231458699	Hieroglyphics	Egyptian writing system	0
7231458700	ziggurat	a massive pyramidal steeped tower made of mud-bricks associated with religion	1
7231458701	cuneiform	Sumerian writing system	2
7231458702	polytheistic	a belief in many gods	3
7231458703	monotheistic	a belief in one God	4
7231458704	theocracy	a government controlled by religious leaders	5
7231458705	Nile River	the longest river in the world. It is 4,000 miles long	6
7231458706	Fertile Crescent	a geographical area of fertile land that stretches from the Nile River to the Tigris and Euphrates	7
7231458707	Indus River Valley	chronologically, the 3rd urban hearth, dating 2200 BCE	8
7231458708	Mesopotamia	a region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the 1st urban societies	9
7231458709	Nile River Valley	chronologically, the second urban hearth, dating 3200 BCE	10
7231458710	Huang He River Valley	known as the yellow river valley located in the earliest Chinese settlement	11
7231458711	patriarchal	male dominance	12
7231458712	matriarchal	female dominance	13
7231458713	Sanskrit	an Indo-European, Indic language, since 1200 bc	14
7231458714	prehistory	a period before writing	15
7231458715	fossils	rock-like remains of biological organisms	16
7231458716	Archaeology	study of artifacts and relics of early mankind	17
7231458717	Anthropology	study of human life and culture	18
7231458718	artifacts	objects made by humans	19
7231458719	hominid	human	20
7231458720	Homo sapiens sapiens	early modern humans means wise, wise human	21
7231458721	Zoroaster	The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion, Zoroastrianism.	22
7231458722	Paleolithic Age	Old Stone Age. Humans used simple stone tools	23
7231458723	nomads	hunters and gatherers	24
7231458724	Catalhuyuk	an important neolithic site what is now Turkey	25
7231458725	Jericho	Oldest Neolithic community	26
7231458726	Neolithic Age	The beginning of systematic agriculture	27
7231458727	systematic agriculture	the organized growing of food on a regular basis	28
7231458728	domestication	the taming of plants and animals for human use	29
7231458729	artisans	skilled workers	30
7231458730	monarchs	kings or queens	31
7231458731	civilization	a complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a number of common elements	32
7231458732	culture	way of life	33
7231458733	city-states	a city that has political and economic control over the surrounding countryside	34
7231458734	Sargon	Leader of the Akkadians	35
7231458735	Hammurabi Law Code	a strict ancient law code that enforced an eye for an eye and a tooth for a toothph	36
7231458736	pharaoh	Egyptian monarch meaning great house or palace	37
7231458737	mummification	a process of slowly drying a dead body	38
7231458738	Himalaya	the highest mountains in the world	39
7280993729	Cultural Hearth	A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.	40
7280997952	Judaism	the monotheistic religion of the Jews.	41
7281004625	Mesopotamia	Birthplace of the Sumerian civilization among many others.	42
7281006581	Persians	developed laws, built roads, and made money systems	43
7281008224	Sumerian civilization	Created the wheel and first written symbol.	44
7281017667	The epic of Gilgamesh	First Book ever written	45
7281026103	Phoenicians	Created the first written alphabet.	46
7288511980	The holy book of Judaism	Torah	47
7288513877	Created the first wheel	Sumerians	48
7288573297	the spread of ideas and technology	cultural diffusion	49