World History: Chapter 2 Review

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World History Chapter 2 Review

• Egypt
• Sumer A Land of Firsts
• Hebrews

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Egypt The Nile, the Life Giver

• Three reasons why the life giver?
• Egyptian writing
• Name for the leader Great House
• Type of government a religious state

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Egypt The Nile, the Life Giver

• The key to understanding hieroglyphics
• A line of rulers from one family
• Type of religious beliefs with many deities
• Artisan class of writers

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Egypt The Nile, the Life Giver

• Great tall slender megaliths
• God of the Nile and life judger
• Sun god
• Purpose of the pyramids

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Egypt The Nile, the Life Giver

• It is based upon the yearly rising and flooding
  of the Nile
• Sacred and mysterious process of preserving the
  dead
• Long trading trains of camels

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Sumer and the others

• Geographic term for the Middle Easts lunar
  grassland
• Greek for land between the rivers
• Sumerian writing
• First great epic

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Sumer and the others

• Type of economy started by the Lydians
• First to forge iron
• First law code
• Harsh, but equal motto of the law code

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Sumer and the others

• First cavalry unit
• These religious buildings take the cake
• This invention kept things rolling
• Form of government that controls the surrounding
  land

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Sumer and the others

• Government based on lineage and blood
• Persian Prophet of Judgment Day
• Nebuchadnezzars wonderful tribute to his wife

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Sumer and the others

• The royal shell fish of Tyre and Byblos
• Prime example of cultural diffusion from
  Phoenicians, to Greece, To Rome, to us
• Phoenicians main occupation
• Phoenician symbol of modern Lebanon

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Judaism

• Founder of the Hebrew nation
• Territory, region or city from which Abraham
  left
• Leader of the Great Exodus
• Jewish Holiday to commemorate the Exodus

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Judaism

• The solemn agreement between Yahweh and the
  Hebrews
• The holy scripture of the Hebrews
• The Hebrews ethical law code
• Singular and fundamental to Hebrew religious
  belief