List of Terms for Exam 1 **

Mesopotamia

Tigris and Euphrates

cuneiform

Sumer, Sumerians

Ur

sexagesimal

theocracy

protoliterate

Akkad, Akkadians

ziggurat

Ishtar

lugal

ensi

Lugal-zagesi

Sargon (of Akkad)

Hammurabi

Gilgamesh

Hittites (Hattisilus)

Kassites

Kurigalzu I

kudurru

Mitanni,

hieroglyphs

hieratic

Osiris

Horus

Isis

Ra (Re)

ka

maat

Upper and Lower Egypt

Nile

Narmer (=Menes?)

Old Kingdom (Egypt)

Djoser

Imhotep

pyramids

Khufu

First Intermediate Period

(Egypt)

Middle Kingdom (Egypt)

Amun (Amon) (Amun-Ra)

Second Intermediate

Period (Egypt)

Hyksos

New Kingdom (Egypt)

Ahmose I

Hatshepsut

Thutmose III

Akhenaten

Aten (Aton)

Tutankhamun

Ramses II

Merneptah

Rameses III

Third Intermediate Period

Sea Peoples

Phoenicians

Phoenician alphabet(s)

Byblos, Tyre, Ugarit

Aramaeans

Israel and Judah

David and Solomon

Hebrews/Israelites

Yahweh, Mosaic covenant

Josiah (king of Judah)

Shoshenq I

Assyrians

Tukulti-Ninurta I

Tiglath-pileser I

Ashurnasirpal II

Shalmaneser III

Tiglath-pileser III

Sargon II

Dur-Sharrukin

Sennacherib

Esarhaddon

Ashurbanipal

Nineveh

Chaldaeans

Nebuchadnezzar II

Babylonian captivity

Nabonidus

Lydians, Croesus

Persians

Cyrus II

Cambyses II

Darius I

arta

Zoroaster

Ahuramazda and Ahriman

Satraps

Royal Road

Hominids

Cro-Magnon

Neanderthal

Homo Habilis

Homo Erectus

Homo Sapien

Australopithecus