Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
61 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
neanderthal
|
co exist with modern humans
anthropological dead end 60000and 30000 bc |
|
|
tigris and euphrates river
|
tigris-a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150
euphrates-a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 mi. (2735 km) |
|
|
epic of gilgamish
|
Gilgamesh, in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk. He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 B.C. and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 B.C. The library's remains were excavated by British archaeologists in the mid-19th cent.,
|
|
|
cuneiform
|
having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
2. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others. |
|
|
hammurabi
|
Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
|
|
|
hittites
|
a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
|
|
|
zoroastrianism
|
an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu, and a spirit of evil, Angra Mainyu
|
|
|
judaism
|
The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud
|
|
|
jerusalem
|
A holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel. The name means “city of peace.” Jerusalem is often called Zion; Mount Zion is the hill on which the fortress of the city was built.Capital of Israel and largest city in the country, located on a ridge west of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River.
|
|
|
diaspora
|
The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.
|
|
|
dead sea scrolls
|
a number of leather, papyrus, and copper scrolls dating from c100 b.c. to a.d. 135, containing partial texts of some of the books of the Old Testament and some non-Biblical scrolls, in Hebrew and Aramaic, and including apocryphal writings, commentaries, hymns, and psalms: found in caves near the NW coast of the Dead Sea beginning in 1947.
|
|
|
talmud and torah
|
talmud- the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500
torah-the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law, and teaching as contained chiefly in the Old Testament and the Talmud. |
|
|
pyramids
|
in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
b. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple |
|
|
obelisks
|
a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex
|
|
|
akhnaton
|
her beauty is still there in her status as we see it .....He had one son which is King Tut and three Daughters ...Two from Nefertiti and the other from another woman from the royal family which whom King Tut married ....well king Akhnaton is also known as Amenophis the fifth and Amenhotop the fifth too...
|
|
|
ramses II
|
King of Egypt (1304-1237 B.C.) whose reign was marked by the building of numerous monuments. He was probably king during the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
|
|
|
valley of the kings
|
a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
|
|
|
gift of the nile
|
aket peret shenu
diet middle class life mummification |
|
|
rosetta stone
|
A basalt tablet bearing inscriptions in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic scripts that was discovered in 1799 near Rosetta, a town of northern Egypt in the Nile River delta, and provided the key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
|
|
|
anubis
|
A jackal-headed Egyptian god, the son of Osiris. He conducted the dead to the underworld
|
|
|
neanderthal
|
co exist with modern humans
anthropological dead end 60000and 30000 bc |
|
|
tigris and euphrates river
|
tigris-a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150
euphrates-a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 mi. (2735 km) |
|
|
epic of gilgamish
|
Gilgamesh, in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk. He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 B.C. and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 B.C. The library's remains were excavated by British archaeologists in the mid-19th cent.,
|
|
|
cuneiform
|
having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
2. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others. |
|
|
hammurabi
|
Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
|
|
|
hittites
|
a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
|
|
|
zoroastrianism
|
an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu, and a spirit of evil, Angra Mainyu
|
|
|
judaism
|
The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud
|
|
|
jerusalem
|
A holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel. The name means “city of peace.” Jerusalem is often called Zion; Mount Zion is the hill on which the fortress of the city was built.Capital of Israel and largest city in the country, located on a ridge west of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River.
|
|
|
diaspora
|
The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.
|
|
|
neanderthal
|
co exist with modern humans
anthropological dead end 60000and 30000 bc |
|
|
tigris and euphrates river
|
tigris-a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1150
euphrates-a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 mi. (2735 km) |
|
|
epic of gilgamish
|
Gilgamesh, in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk. He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 B.C. and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 B.C. The library's remains were excavated by British archaeologists in the mid-19th cent.,
|
|
|
cuneiform
|
having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
2. composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others. |
|
|
hammurabi
|
Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
|
|
|
hittites
|
a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
|
|
|
zoroastrianism
|
an Iranian religion, founded c600 b.c. by Zoroaster, the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity, Ahura Mazda, and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good, Spenta Mainyu, and a spirit of evil, Angra Mainyu
|
|
|
judaism
|
The monotheistic religion of the Jews, tracing its origins to Abraham and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud
|
|
|
jerusalem
|
A holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah and of the modern state of Israel. The name means “city of peace.” Jerusalem is often called Zion; Mount Zion is the hill on which the fortress of the city was built.Capital of Israel and largest city in the country, located on a ridge west of the Dead Sea and the Jordan River.
|
|
|
diaspora
|
The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century B.C., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.
|
|
|
rig veda
|
one of the Vedas, a collection of 1028 hymns, dating from not later than the second millennium b.c.
|
|
|
caste system
|
a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity
|
|
|
buddha
|
Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism. He began preaching after achieving supreme enlightenment at the age of 35.
|
|
|
hinduism
|
the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions
|
|
|
lucy
|
the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominid found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis.
closest to modern humans...oldest woman remains found |
|
|
laws of manu
|
also known as Mānava-Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: मानवधर्मशास्त्र), is the most important and earliest metrical work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of Hinduism.[1] Generally known in English as the Laws of Manu, it was first translated into English in 1794 by Sir William Jones, an English Orientalist and judge of the British Supreme Court of Judicature in Calcutta.[2] The text presents itself as a discourse given by the sage called Manu to a group of seers, or rishis, who beseech him to tell them the "law of all the social classes" (1.2). Manu became the standard point of reference for all future Dharmaśāstras that followed it.[3
|
|
|
gupta age
|
The greatest empire in the fourth century AD was the Gupta empire, which ushered in the golden age of Indian history. This empire lasted for more than two centuries. It covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, but its administration was more decentralised than that of the Maura's. Alternately waging war and entering into matrimonial alliances with the smaller kingdoms in its neighbourhood, the empire's boundaries kept fluctuating with each ruler.
The Gupta rulers patronised the Hindu religious tradition and orthodox Hinduism reasserted itself in this era |
|
|
shang dynasty
|
the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
|
|
|
oracle bones
|
a group of inscribed animal bones and shells discovered in China and used originally in divination by the ancient Chinese, esp. during the Shang dynasty.
|
|
|
daoism
|
philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
|
|
|
confucius
|
Chinese philosopher whose Analects contain a collection of his sayings and dialogues compiled by disciples after his death.
|
|
|
minoans
|
Of or relating to the advanced Bronze Age culture that flourished in Crete from about 3000 to 1100 B.C.
n. A native or inhabitant of ancient Crete. |
|
|
linear b
|
an ancient system of writing representing a very early form of Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris chiefly from clay tablets found at Knossos on Crete and at PylosA syllabic script used in Mycenaean Greek documents chiefly from Crete and Pylos, mostly from the 14th to the 12th century B.C.
|
|
|
sparta
|
A city-state of ancient Greece in the southeast Peloponnesus. Settled by Dorian Greeks, it was noted for its militarism and reached the height of its power in the sixth century B.C. A protracted rivalry with Athens led to the Peloponnesian Wars (460-404) and Sparta's hegemony over all of Greece. Its ascendancy was broken by Thebans in 371
|
|
|
socrates
|
Greek philosopher whose indefatigable search for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. Although Socrates wrote nothing, his method of question and answer is captured in the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil
|
|
|
homer
|
An ancient Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He has often been considered the greatest and most influential of all poets. According to tradition, Homer was blind
|
|
|
sappho
|
Greek lyric poet considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity although only fragments of her romantic lyrics survive. from lesbos island. wrote poetry about women becase she was lesbian
|
|
|
marathon
|
1895–1900; allusion to Pheidippides' 26-mi. (42-km) run from Marathon to Athens to carry news of the Greek victory over the Persians in 490 b.c.a plain in SE Greece, in Attica: the Athenians defeated the Persians here 490 b.c.
|
|
|
alcibiades
|
Athenian politician and general whose brilliant military career foundered during the Peloponnesian War (431-404), during which he changed allegiance three times
|
|
|
alexander the great
|
A ruler of Greece in the fourth century b.c. As a general, he conquered most of the ancient world, extending the civilization of Greece east to India. Alexander is said to have wept because there were no worlds left to conquer. In Alexander's youth, the philosopher Aristotle was his tutor.
356–323 b.c., king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India. |
|
|
epicureanism
|
A philosophy advanced by Epicurus that considered happiness, or the avoidance of pain and emotional disturbance, to be the highest good and that advocated the pursuit of pleasures that can be enjoyed in moderation.
also epicureanism Devotion to a life of pleasure and luxury. |
