Unit 1 Terms

Unit 1 Terms

1. Fertile Crescent - An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
2. Mesopatamia- An ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now part of Iraq.
3. City- state – A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
4. Dynasty– A series of rulers from a single family.
5. Cultural diffusion – The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
6. Polytheism – A doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire – A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
8. Hammurabi - 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
9. Delta – A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
10. Pharaoh - a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
11. Theocracy -a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities
12. Pyramid - 1. a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb.
13. Mummification - to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
14. Hieroglyphics - designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particulary that of the ancient Egyptians, in many of the symbols are conventionalized.
15. Papyrus - an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.
16. Hyksos - a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.
17. New Kingdom - the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 1580–1085 b.c., comprising the 18th to 20th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Thebes.
18. Hatshepsut - 1495–75 B.C., queen of Egypt.
19. Thatmose III - 17.1475 b.c., Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
20. Nubia - a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
21. Ramses II - 1292–1225 b.c., king of ancient Egypt.
22. Kush - Kingdom of, an ancient African state in this area; part of the region of Nubia
23. Piankhi - Piankhi was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Cush on the Upper Nile in what is now the northern Sudan.
24. Meroe - a ruined city in Sudan, on the Nile, NE of Khartoum: a capital of ancient Ethiopia that was destroyed A.D. c350.
25. Palestine - a former British mandate (1923–48) comprising part of this country, divided between Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in 1948.
26. Torah - the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
27. Abraham - the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation.
28. Monotheism - the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
29. Covenant - an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
30. Moses - the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness.
31. Judah - the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
32. Phoenicians - a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33. Monsoon - the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
34. Harappan Civilization -
35. Reincarnation - the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36. Karma - Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman
37. Siddhartha Gautama - Account of the life of Siddhartha Gautama, on a site that is an introduction to Buddhism.
38. Enlightenment - the act of enlightening.
39. Nirvana - freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusio
40. Mandate of heaven -
41. Feudalism -
42. Confucius -
43. Filial piety -
44. Bureaucracy -
45. Daoism -
46. Legalism -
47. I Ching -
48. Yin and yang -
49. Qin Dynasty -
50. Autocracy -
51. Allah -
52. Muhammad -
53. Islam -
54. Hijrah -
55. Mosque -
56. Hajj -
57. Qur’an -