History 111 EXAM 1

Neolithic, 10,000 years ago the new stone age began in the near east. They discovered farming, and domesticated animal, established villages , made tools, and pottery. Agriculture, is the deliberate planting and cultivation of crops.

A region from about 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies.

A region of city-states in Mesopotamia that was home to the first civilization. The traditional view is that cities arose about 3000 B.C. in Sumer, the home of the earliest civilization.

They had to find their food and gather it themselves in the Paleolithic age., Early people who traveled from place to place, hunting and collecting food

A person who believes in the equality of all people

latin phrase for "an eye for an eye"

A semitic city to the north of Sumer, Led by Sargon the great in 2350 B.C., Sargon built the first empire.

The old stone age 2.5 million - 8000 B.C. was known for the use of stone tools

A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city. The Sumeranians built Ziggerats

A Mesopotamian deity, chief god of the city of Babylon

king of the Babylonian empire; creator of the code of Hammarabi; one of the worlds oldest codes of law

After Alexander's death, the Ptolemies founded a dynasty in Egypt.

A ruler of upper Egypt who conquered the Nile Delta and Lower Egypt

About 2686 through 2181 B.C. when royal power had reached its height and the essential forms of Egyptian civilization crystallized.

From 2181 through 2040 when the nobles' growing power and the enormous expenditure of Egypt human and material resources on building pyramids led to the decline of the old Kingdom.

From 2040 through 1786 when strong king reasserted pharaonic rule and reunited the state. Middle Kingdom.

In 1570 through 1085 resentful of foreign rule, the Egyptians became more militant and aggressive, they learns to use Hyksos weapons and drove out invaders. This began the New Kingdom.

a system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols invented by the sumerians around 3000 B.C..

the Egyptian concept of truth, justice, and cosmic order, represented by a goddess, often portrayed with a feather upon her head.

1st woman ruler. In 1480 BC Queen Hatshepsut came to power during the New Kingdom. She had herself crowned pharaoh.

the king of all gods and the father of the pharaohs the temple to him was the largest one in Egypt

Successor of Akhenaton's from 1352 through 1344 B.C., Tutankhamen abandoned the capital at Amarna and returned to Thebes.

A group of nomadic invaders from Southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C..

A group pf semi-nomadic peoples who, around 2000 B.C.E., began to migrate from central Asia to India, Europe, and the Middle East

the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons

Part of the Israelite Population, Canaan is in the promised land, A member of a Semitic people inhabiting Canaan from late prehistoric times and who were conquered by the Israelites around 1000 B.C.

Was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia located at the site of modern