Study
Guide for Chapter 2 - Great Civilizations
(Pgs 28-65) Terms and People to
Know
(Sec
1 pages 28-35)
Fertile
Crescent Mesopotamia Tigris-Euphrates Rivers
Sumer
The Epic of Gilgamesh Ur Uruk
Hierarchy ziggurats
cuneiform Akkadians Sumerians
Assyrians
(Sec
2 pages 36 – 43)
Sargon
Hammurabi The
Code of
Hammurabi Babylonia
“the
land of no return” Hittites
iron cavalry
mercenaries
Nineveh Chaldeans
Medes
Nebuchadnezzar The
Persians Cyrus
Darius Xerxes
Royal Road
Zoroaster
(Sec
3 pages 44- 49)
Nile
River Valley cataract delta
Menes Memphis
dynasty
The Old Kingdom
The
Middle Kingdom pharaohs
bureaucracy vizier
Ptah-hotep Instructions of
the Vizier Necropolises The Great Pyramid at Giza
Nubia
Kush
Hyksos The New Kingdom
mummies
Hatshepsut Thutmose III Ramses II
Hittites
displaced
(Sec
4 pages 50-56)
Amon-Re Osiris
Isis Akenhaton
The Book of the Dead mummification
Tutankhamen
hieroglyphics Jean Francois Champollion deciphering
Rosetta Stone The Tale
of Sinuhe
(sec
5 pages 57 –65)
monotheistic Torah
Talmud Abraham
covenant Moses David Solomon
patriarchal
Deborah Sabbath
prophets ethics Diaspora
The Hebrews Ten
Comandments
Judaism ethical monotheism
Ideas
to understand
• How did people develop a civilization
along
the Nile River?
• What
were the major accomplishments of the Nile Valley civilization?
•
Why were the Sumerians
important?
• What empires arose in the Fertile
Crescent?
• What was the Code of Hammurabi?
•
What lasting contributions
did the Hebrews make to western civilization?