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| Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. |
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| In the governments of many ancient societies, a professional position reserved for men who had undergone the lengthy training required to read and write using cuneiform, hieroglyphics, or other early cumber stone systems. |
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| A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks. Function is unknown but linked to religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamia |
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| Small charm meant to protect the bearer from evil. Found frequently in archaeological excavations in Mesopotamia. |
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| Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. |
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| Ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for the code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases. |
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| the geological era since the end of the great ice age |
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| structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes. |
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| The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. |
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| The people who dominated the Southern Mesopotamia. Responsible for many fundamentals of Mesopotamia culture, such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions. First to develop written records |
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| family of related languages long spoken across parts of western Asia and northern Africa. (Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician) |
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| A small independent state consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. A characteristic political form in early Mesopotamia( farms, then towns, then city states), Archaic and classical Greece, Phoenicia and early Italy. |
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| a system of writing in wedge shaped symbols |
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| developed high degree of social division, a hierarchy, in which women lost standing. Gods embodied natural forces and were worshiped through public, state directed, centered rituals |
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