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| "land between the rivers" |
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| the first developed urban civiliztion. The Sumerians colonized the marshlands of the lower Euphrates. |
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| huge, multi level mounds in which temples were built on |
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| The Meosopotamian (Babylonian) Creation Epic |
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| a society that uses the creation of myths and their stories to explain occurences in nature |
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| an empire made by a Semitic people who settled in the region around the upper Tigris. |
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| the principal collection of laws- "Code of Hammaraubi" (c.1792- c. 1750) Hammaraubi was the Mesopotamian ruler at the time. |
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| the three rivers that make up the fertile crescent. Connects the 2 major civilizations of the time- Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
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| Religion was the Mesopotamians frame of reference of understanding nature, society and themselves. Your afterlife was deicded based on the life you lead while in existance. |
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| the basic institution of Egyptian civilization. Religious |
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| Egyptian form of writing, uses symbols. Used for math, science, and writing. (duh!) Used to keep records. |
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| agricultural use of water. the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. |
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| lead to the intermingling of peoples and cultural traditions and to the extension of civilization beyond the river valleys. |
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| A female Pharoah. Assumed role of "king" |
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| belief in many gods/goddesses |
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| Egyptian "creator of the world," the maintainer of life, and the god of love, justice and peace. |
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| Pharoah (c. 1369- c, 1353) who sought to make the change from polytheism to monotheism. Worship Aton |
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| Arab League decided to introduce a new weapon in its war against Israel — the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Syria vs Isreal |
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| officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP),were a culmination of a series of secret and public agreements, dating particularly from the Madrid Conference of 1991 onwards, and negotiated between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (acting as representatives of the Palestinian people) in 1993 as part of a peace process trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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| 10th century B.C. under David and his son Solomon- made possible by the declining power of other states in the Near East- Babylonia, Assyria, the Hittite kingdom, and Egypt. |
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| Belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence. |
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| Jews and Palestinian Arabs, lay claim to the same piece of land- the "Hold Land" |
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| Founders of Judiasm- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob |
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| an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel, the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up until the border of modern Turkey. |
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| a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was spoken by YHWH to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. Moral and political guidelines- laws! |
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1:: of or relating to a parish as a unit of local government
2:: confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope |
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| concept of:: an ideal state would rest on four virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. |
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| Jews didn't have a "home." Traveled around to various places but had nowhere to call their "own" |
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| an intermediary with a deity, particularly someone who claims to speak for the deity or interprets the deity's will or mind. "Mouthpiece" is the literal translation (supposedly!) |
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| that each individual is responsible for his or her own actions |
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| a compromise between moral relativism and moral absolutism. |
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| Dead Sea Scrolls discovered. Isreal foreign relations- established Jewish and Arab states and internationalized Jerusalem- its legally property of Christians, Muslims, and Jews |
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