Worlds Together Worlds Apart Exam 1 Chapters 1-3

Amenemhet I

First pharoh of the twelfth dynasty (1985 - 1795) evevated the god Amun

Amorites

A name that Mesopotamian urbanites called the transhumant herders from the Arabian desert.

Çatal Höyük

Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC

Chariot

A device that was pulled by hourses that was commonly used in war.

Creation Narrative

Evidence of how Humans were created?

Domestication

The timing of plants and animals in order to benefit humans.

Harappans

(3000 BCE) arose on the banks of the Ravi River, Indus basin reflected local tradition combined with strong influences from Iranian plateau peoples, as well as indirect influences from distant Mesopotamian cities. ,

Hatshepsut

A leader known as ancient Egypt's most powerful woman. She served as regent for her young sun Tutmos III whose reign began in 1479

Hitties

Chariot rideing earror group from Antolia Wivhitch spread north to Syriathere hayday was 1380 - 1345 BCE

Hyksos

A western semantic speaking people Overthrew Egypt in the thirteenth dynasty. They had mastered the work of chariot rideing.

Longshan Culture

famous for black pottery 3000 - 1900 bce group from yellow river basin. 3000 BCE to 2000

Mohenjo Daro

Harpian city built around 2500 BCE It is one of the largest settments of the indus river valley

Mycenaeans

Mycenaean Culture The Mycenaean culture was more war-oriented than that of the peaceful, seafaring Minoans. When the Mycenaeans migrated to Greece from central Europe, they brought their Indo-European language, their horse chariots, and their metalworking skills. Their move was gradual, lasting from about 1850 to 1600 BCE

Old Kingdom Egypt

(2686-2613 BCE golden age if ancent Egypt By the time it began, the basic institutions of the Egyptian state were in place, as were the ideology and ritual life that legitimized the dynastic rulers.

oracle bones

used by the Shang dynasty to tell of fture everns by burning bines and interprateing them. Thye beleved there ansesters made the chracks.

Sargon (I)

2340 - c. 2284 BCE ancient Mesopotamian ruler (reigned c. 2334-2279 bc), one of the earliest of the world's great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran). He established the region's first Semitic dynasty and was considered the founder of the Mesopotamian military tradition. Built the city of Agade

scribes

People who could read and write(were seen with high status)

social stratification

A system of classes defined by wealth and food

Shang China

(1600 BCE) China's first major territorial state combined features of earlier Longshan culture with new technologies and religious practices, The Shang state was built on four elements that the Longshan peoples had already introduced: a metal industry based on copper; pottery making; walled towns; and divination using animal bones. To these Longshan foundations the Shang dynasty added hereditary rulers whose power derived from their relation to ancestors and gods; written records; large-scale metallurgy; tribute; and various rituals.

territorial state

A political form that emerged in the riverine cities of Mesopotamia, which was overwhelmed by the displacement of nomadic peoples. These states were kingdoms organized around charismatic rulers who headed large households; each had a defined physical border.

Vedic peoples

entered South Asia through the passes in the Hindu Kush Mountains in the middle of the second millennium BCE and eventually occupied the whole of what are today Pakistan, Bangladesh, and northern India. were illiterate, chariot-riding, and cattle-keeping pastoral peoples, who lacked experience of cities and urban life. They brought with them much beloved and elaborate rituals, mainly articulated in hymns, called Vedas (Sanskrit for wisdom or knowledge), Kept there own language but learned many costoms from other near by settlemnts.

Yangshao culture

(4000-2000) slash and burn culture China(

ziggurat

Ziggurat (stepped temple) and the organization of homes by occupation