definitions

Unit 1 Terms

1. Fertile Crescent- fertile land that two river enclose.
2. Mesopotamia- country.
3. City- state- a city that has its own laws and government. Otherwise a country in the form of a city
4. Dynasty- a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group: the Ming dynasty.
5. Cultural diffusion- in anthropology, the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another
6. Polytheism- the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
7. Empire- land ruled by a person
8. Hammurabi- king of Babylonia.
9. Delta- a place where the mouth of a river or stream meats a larger body of water.
10. Namar- Don’t know
11. Pharaoh- ancient king.
12. 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.
13. Pyramid- giant building made of stone and sand.
14. Mummification- preserving ones body to last.
15. Hieroglyphics- ancient writing in the form of pictures.
16. Papyrus- money.
17. Hyksos- a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.
18. New Kingdom- when a new leader takes place of an old one or when people declare land theirs.
19. Hatshepsut- queen of Egypt.
20. Thatmose III- a ruler.
Nubia-a light knitted woolen head scarf for women.
21. Banses II- another ruler.
22. Kush- an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt
23. Piankhi- Don’t know.
24. Merod- Barak against Sisera
25. Palestine- Also called Holy Land. Biblical name, Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
26. Torah- the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. Compare Tanach.
27. Abraham- person.
28. Monotheism- belief in one god.
29. Covenant- don’t know
30. Moses- person
31. Judah- forth son of Jacob and lee.
32. Phoenicians- a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
33. Monsoon- sesonal winds that bring occasional.
34. Harappan Civilization- people that were Harappan.
35. Reincarnation- the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
36. Karma- experience points
37. Siddhartha Gautama- the fourth son of the son o the grandfather of the son of moses.
38. Enlightenment- giving further explanation.
39. Nirvana- a famous rock star.
40. Mandate of heaven- to demand to go to heaven
41. Feudalism- the principles and practices
42. Confucius- Chinese philosopher and teacher.
43. Filial piety- thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors
44. Bureaucracy- government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials
45. Daoism- philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
46. Legalism- strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, esp. to the letter rather than the spirit002E
47. I Ching- Chinese book of ancient origin consisting of 64 interrelated hexagrams along with commentaries attributed to Confucius. The hexagrams, originally used for divination, embody Taoist philosophy by describing all nature and human endeavor in terms of the interaction of yin and yang
48. Yin and yang- dynasties
49. Qin Dynasty- queen dynasty
50. Autocracy- government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
51. Allah- famous leader.
52. Muhammad- famous boxer.
53. Islam- Jewish country.
54. Hijrah- don’t know
55. Mosque- temple for worship.
56. Hajj- temple
57. Qur’an- don’t know