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Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
World History
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Social Studies
10th Grade
08/17/2012

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Paleolithic Age
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Is used to designate the early period of human history (approximately 2,500,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C.) in which humans used simple stone tools
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Mesopotamia
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The ancient Greeks spoke of the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
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Sumer
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Were the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization.
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Polytheism
Definition
the worship of or belief in more than one deity.
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Ziggurat
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Ancient mesopotamian pyramid-shaped tower with a square base.
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Neolithic Age
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Was a period in the development of human technology.
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Fertile Crescent
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Ancient are of fertile soil and important rivers streching in an area from the Nile river to the Tigris and Euphrates
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Cuneiform
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One of the earliest known forms of written expression

 

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Monothesim
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Is the belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness god.
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Babylon
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A city-state south of Akkad
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Civilization
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Refers to thematerial and instrimental side of human cultures.
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Arsitocrat
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A form of goverment in which a few of the most proominent citizens rule.
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Jericho
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An Arabic city located near the Jordan River
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Gilgamesh
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Was the 5th king of Uruk modern day Iraq
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Israel
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Is a parlimentary republic in the middle east.
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Culture
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is that which distinguishes life in one group form of life in another group.
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Patriarchal
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Is a Social system in which the male to social organizations andwhere fauthers hold authority over women.
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Palestine
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Used to discribe the geographic region between the mediterranean sea and Jordan River
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Hammurabi
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A well-preserved babylonian law.
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Bronze Age
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Is a period characterized by the use of copper.
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