 | Term | Definition |
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Hummurabi's Code |
listed the laws and the corresponding punishments |
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hunter-gatherer |
a person who gets food by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants, roots, nuts, and berries |
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band |
a groupd of people; a small loosely organized group of hunter-gatherers, consisting of 20 to 30 individuals |
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fire |
early people used this for warmth, to cook plant food and to scare off animals |
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Mesopotamia "today" |
includes all of present day Iraq, parts of Syria and Turkey |
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Mesopotamia |
word comes from the Greek language and means the land between the rivers |
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Tigris and Euphrates |
rivers in Mesopotamia |
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artisan |
a skilled worker who makes goods by hand |
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nomads |
people who moved their flocks and herd |
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polytheism |
the belief in many gods |
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Sumerian religion |
polytheistic believing in many gods |
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pictographs |
pictures that stand for words |
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cuneiform |
wedge shaped writing |
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alphabet |
invented by the Phoenicians with 22 symbols |
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Ramses the Great |
1279-1213 BC Egypts greates and most powerful pharaoh of the 19th dynasty |
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Queen Hatshepsut |
1503-1482 BC ruler of Egypt during the 18th dynasty |
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