Darty EUH 2000
Chapter One "First Civilizations" Exam Terms
Darty EUH 2000
Chapter One "First Civilizations" Exam Terms
| civilization |
| culture--shared traits, learned behavior, symbolism, integration |
| evolutionary traits: broad-spectrum gathering, bipedalism, depth-perception, opposable thumb, sexual dimorphism |
| Neolithic, domestication of plants and animals, alluvial towns |
| Mesopotamia |
| Code of Hammurabi |
| Hebrews/Israelites, Judaism: monotheistic, Torah--Tanach (Old Testament), Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), tetragrammatron (YWHW/JWHW--Yahweh/Jehovah), Talmud (Mishnah and Gemara), covenant, Rabbi Hillel, Rabbi Maimanides, Eight Degrees of Charity |
| Revelation vs. Syncretism |
| Catal Huyuk, Uruk, Babylon |
| Epic of Gilgamesh |
| pictograms, cuneiform |
| ziggurat |
| Akhenaten (Amenhotep), Howard Carter, Jean Francois Champollien, Sargon, Tiglath-pileser |
| Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu |
| Rosetta Stone |
| divine kingship, pharoah |
