Unit 1 vocab

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

the belief in or worship of more than one god.

ancient Egyptian text list of spells intended to assist the journey into underworld & afterlife

region in the middle east where farming and the first civilization developed

a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians; at the heart of Mesopotamian cities

a device consisting of a cord with knotted strings, used for recording events, keeping account

a group of languages of Africa, spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope

the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia

refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy

Someone that is trained or developed for a particular purpose or area of knowledge.

the ancient religion of the Aryan peoples who entered India; It was the precursor of Hinduism, 

to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame, to tame (an animal), 

is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another

is a poem from Mesopotamia & is ibe of the earliest known works of literary fiction

concerned with the raising of livestock. tending and use of animals such as goats and cattle.

a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.

an Iranian religion, founded 600 BCE, principal belief in the existence of a supreme God

pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians 

ancient Indian sacred collection of Sanskrit hymns; one of the four sacred texts of Hinduism 

a Babylonian legal code  dealing with criminal & civil matters