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AP World History
Wood Text - Readings 35 – 50: Make sure to read the primary documents within the text we will discuss them in class.
Terms:
Mesopotamia Civilization
Civilization
Cultural hearths
Mesopotamia
Semitic
Sumerians
city-states
Akkadians Empire (Sargon I)
Cultural diffusion
Fertile Crescent
Theocracies
Hammurabi
Babylonians
Hittites
Assyrians
New Babylonians: Chaldeans
Hammurabi’s Code / “marker event”
Cuneiform
The Epic of Gilgamesh
ziggurats
Persians
Egyptian Civilization
The Nile
cataracts
“The Gift of the Nile”
Cultural Isolation (not directly in the text, but what does it mean and how does this compare to Mesopotamia?)
Hyksos
pharaoh
Menes
ma’at
Social Mobility
patriarchy
Hatshepsut
pictographs
papyrus
The Book of the Dead
Other Text: Question
Mesopotamia – pages 11 –16 (also identify – polytheism and divination)
Egypt - pages 20 – 23
1. What comparisons can be made of the geography, government, religion, and social class structure of both
Egypt and Mesopotamia?