Unit 2 Vocab
1. Civilization: The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
2. Institution: A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose.
3. Ziggarat: A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
4. Cultural diffusion: The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from are group to another.
5. City-state: A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
6. Polytheism: The beliefs in or worship of more than one god.
7. Theocracy: Form of government in which god or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler.
8. Hieroglyphics: Enigmatic or incomprehension symbols or writing.
9. Harapan Civilization: Village in Pakistan; site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
10. Feudalism: The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military service.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is mod ran day attack
Mesopotamia major cities:
Ural
Nipper
Nineveh
Assure
Babylon
Ziggarat: A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
The purpose of Ziggarat are:
to get the temple closer to the haven
to provide access from ground to via steps
base which white temple were set
They used clay tokens to record keeping, and the clay token develop into clay tablet.
The Mesopotamian generally used lunar calendar system which is a solar calendar based on the revolution of the earth around the sun.
Hammurabi Code
Hammurabi Code:
- King of Babylon 1792-1750
- Collection of laws to unify city-state
- 282 laws
- to make justice visible in the land, to destroy the weaked person and the evil dors, that strong might not injure the weak.
Ancint Egypt
Geography:
- Herodotus
- Deserts
- Upper Egypt
- Lower Egypt
- Poytheistic
- Re-The sun god
- Osiris-God of the dead
- Isis-Ideal mother
- Arubis-God of the underground
- Social classes(pyamids)
- Writing(Pictogaphs, hiroglyphics, papyras calander)
- Calander
My Notes During This Unit
My best Assignement
Link To Internet Resource
Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Iraq, formerly Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1772 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man.Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Iraq, formerly Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1772 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man.