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29 Cards in this Set
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Scribe |
A person who copies of documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented. |
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Civilization |
The stage of Human Social Development and organization that is considered most advanced |
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Artesian |
A worker skilled in trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. |
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Surplus food |
The overproduction of food and supply |
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Cuneiform |
One of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. |
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Institution |
A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose. |
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Irrigation |
Water control, by pathways, to bring agricultured systems. |
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City state |
A small independent country that usually consists of one single City and its independent territories |
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Polytheism |
The belief in multiple gods |
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Monotheism |
The belief in one God |
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Empire |
An extensive group of states or countries under single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or an empress. |
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Colony |
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by the settlers from that country. |
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Literacy |
The ability to read and write |
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Constellation |
A group of stars that are considered to form an imaginary outlines or meaningful patterns of the celestial sphere, typically representing animals, mythological people or Gods, mythological creatures, or manufacture devices. |
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Astronomy |
The branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole |
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Arab Spring |
The Revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, rides, coops, foreign interventions, and Civil War in North Africa and the Middle East that begin on December 18th 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution |
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Bronze |
Mesopotamia is in the Bronze Age. This means that at the time the material that used had been bronze. for a long time, time in history was measured with what material they had and their technology. |
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Barter |
This was used before currency was made. Barter is to trade in return for an object or a service. |
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Ziggurat |
A temple in which was used by Mesopotamian cultures that were used for worship of gods and goddesses |
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Prophet |
Someone who is preaching the word of God |
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The Fertile Crescent |
A large Arc of rich or fertile farming land which extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea |
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What is the land between Euphrates River and the Tigris River |
Mesopotamia or the Fertile Crescent |
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Sumerians |
The earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia. This land was very worked for Thailand allowed for Surplus Foods. The walls were made for protection. They had many rules and religion |
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What did the Sumerians invent |
Writing. They had professional scribes in The Stylist this is called cuneiform |
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Hammurabi's code |
Made by the Babylonian King Hammurabi. Hammurabi's Code was a set of rules with harsh punishments. |
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Babylonians |
A very strong civilization which took over many places in the Middle East. Under Hammurabi it became the largest city in the Middle East. Face is changing Emperors try to take religion Hammurabi is a god instead. |
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Assurbanipal |
The neo-assyrian Emperor |
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Chaldeans |
The Empire which came after the Assyrians in before the arameans |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
Greatest king of ancient Babylon, Cecilia father. |
