Lecture Review - Early Civilizations and City-States

Vocabulary flashcards created from lecture notes covering early city-states, writing systems, leaders, and religious beliefs.

Fertile Crescent

The extremely fertile land between Tignis and Euphrates River

cuneiform

first writing system developed in the city state of Sumer

Hammurabi’s code

Kim Hammurabi, first of the best monarchies to Babylonian Dynasty made code of law

City State

independent city state that functions like a country

ziggurat

religious temples in Mesopotamia

Scribe

A Record keeper Learns hidden languages

Polytheism

belief in One or more gods

Delta

Fourth letter of Greek alphabet, delta triangle mouth of a river where mineral deposits are found

Pharaoh

Ancient Egyptian believed to have divine status

Pyramid

Religious tombs built by Egyptian square base triangle shape Buried by pharaohs and treasure

The sphinx

Egyptian monument older than pyramids body of a lion head of a human face of one of the old pharaohs guard tombs of pharaohs

Hieroglyphics

A form of pictorial writing that was recorded on stone as well of papyrus paper

Papyrus

Paper like material made of weed and grass by Nile River

Rosetta Stone

Discovered in 1799 Timeline hieroglyphics demotic Egyptians ancient Greek