A | B |
Landmark with the head of a man and the body of a lion | Sphinx |
Landmark which were burial places of the pharaohs | Great Pyramid at Giza |
Nebuchadnezzar built this to cure his wife's homesickness | Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
Hammurabi's greatest accomplishment | written code of law |
first advanced civilization | Sumeria |
Holy book of the Hebrews which includes their written records and beliefs | Torah |
Accomplishments of the Phoenicians | Expert sailors, traders, and developed the alphabet |
Why trade routes through the Middle East were important | 3 continents came together |
Why Hammurabi created his law code | to unify the lands he controlled |
First metals used for tools | bronze and iron |
King Menes principal achievement | united Upper and Lower Egypt |
The holy city of Judaism | Jerusalem |
Names of Egyptian gods/goddesses | Horus, Isis, Osiris |
this has symbols representing sounds | alphabet |
Polytheistic civilizations | Sumerians, Egyptians, Babylonians |
4 river valleys where civilizations firs developed | Nile, Tigris/Euphrates, Indus, Huang He |
They wrote cuneiform | Sumerians |
They wrote hieroglyphics | Egyptians |
3 contributions of Hebrews | Ten Commandments, Torah, monotheism |
Hereditary rulers of river valleys | Kings, pharaohs |
A system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet people's needs | Economy |
Why river valleys were "Cradles of Civilization" | where first civilizations developed |
Abraham's monotheism is the basis of these 3 religions | Judaism, christianity, Islam |
Why pyramids were built | as tombs for pharaohs |
By law, what did Egyptian women have | more rights than any other women in river valleys |
a family of rulers | dynasty |
River valley civilizations had these 3 characteristics | kings/pharaohs were leaders, slavery accepted, rigid class structure |
Religious beliefs of Amenhotep IV | worshipped a single deity, Aton |
What Mesopotamia means | land between the rivers |
Wedge shaped writing developed by the Sumerians | Cuneiform |
When Hebrews were enslaved and taken to Babylon | Exile |
these caused a surplus of food in river valleys | better tools, plow, irrigation |
Civilizations in the Fertile Crescent | Hebrews, Phoenicians, Sumerians |
When communities of Jews were forced to live outside of Palestine | Diaspora |
Specialization of labor | when people perform specific jobs according to their skills |
Traits of advanced civilizations | arts and sciences, written languages, organized government |
A person who wrote government and religious records | Scribe |
This led to the translation of hieroglyphics | Rosetta Stone |
Plant used to make boats, paper, sandals | Papyrus |
What did Egyptian farmers depend on to irrigate their crops | yearly flooding of Nile |
First woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
Only the Hebrews believed in this | one God |
pharaoh | god king ruler of Egypt |
Who led the Israelites out of Egypt? | Moses |
Where did the word paper come from? | Egypt, papyrus |
Why did specialization of labor occur? | farmers produced a surplus of food |
moral and religious code of conduct Hebrews had to follow | Ten Commandments |
How was government set up in early civilizations | government and religion were connected |
WD-- CITY-STATE | AN INDEPENDENT STATE CONSISTING OF A CITY AND THE SURROUNDING LAND AND VILLAGES |
WD-- MONOTHEISM | BELIEF IN ONE GOD |
WD-- POLYTHEISM | BELIEF IN MANY GODS |
theocracy | government that combines political and religious leadership |
archaeological site in England begun in the Neolithic Age and completed in the Bronze age | stonehenge |