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Early Civilizations Midterm 1
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Archaeology
Undergraduate 3
11/03/2012

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Term
Tiamat (mother of the gods)
Definition
-primordial diety
-married to Apsu who wants to kill kids
-dragon mother
Term
Apsu wants to do what?
What is his fate?
Definition
-kill the kids because they're too loud
-Enki kills him
-salt water
Term
Hyksos
When did they rule?
When were they expelled
Definition
-foreign kings ruled over northern part of Egypt
-second intermediate period
-first kings of 18th dynasty
Term
meaning of Lugal
Who was he
Definition
-sumerian for "big man" translated to "king"
-king of Uruk & some of Sumer, killed by Sargon
Term
Anu (A)/An (S)
father of who?
Definition
-represents heavens/sky
-father of Ishtar/Inanna
Term
Ishtar (A), Inanna (S)
What city?
Definition
-goddess of sex & war, priestess, sacred prostitute, possibility of fertility/agricultural soil
-Uruk
Term
Nippur
Who's city?
What happened here?
Definition
-Enlil's city
-coronation of kings
-religious capital of the south
Term
Eridu
Who's city?
first city of what?
Definition
-Enki's city
-first city of kingship
-rounded/oval/early temples
Term
Shuruppak
Definition
-city and person
Term
Atrahasis/Flood Story
Definition
_____
Term
Akkadian
language?
date?
Definition
-Semitic
-ends in 2254
Term
Assyria (region)
Definition
-right of Euphrates
-left of Khabur (Y) river
Term
Horus
son of who?
God of what?
Definition
-Osiris & Isis
-god of war/protection
Term
Thebes
what kind of capitol?
Who brings what?
Definition
-religious capitol
-Karnack temple is brought by Hyksos
Term
Thutmose III
creates what?
Definition
-only empire of Egypt
-included parts of Nubia up to third/first cataract
Term
Standard of Ur
What do the sides depict?
What period?
Where found?
Definition
-one side is a battle scene
-one is a king's court celebrating/peace banquet/no war related
-Early Dynastic
-royal grave/cemetery of Ur
Term
What was the Curse of Akkad?
Definition
-NS destroyed mountain house
Term
Amorites
Definition
-semitic, nomadic
-talk about families in tribal terms
Term
Marduk
god of what?
found in what story?
kills who and why?
Definition
-god of storm/winds
-Enuma Elish (when on high)
-kills Tiamat and uses her blood to make humanity
Term
Karnak
what occurs here?
what was built here
Definition
-daily ritual
-a huge Sphinx by Amenhotep III
Term
Ur-namma (A), Ur-nammu (S)
builds what?
founded what?
made what?
Definition
-Ziggurats
-founded Ur III
-establishes legal/law codes
Term
Ellil (A), Enlil (S)
Definition
-Lord of wind
-e-kir (Sumerian house)
-hates the noise
-decides world order
Term
Ninhursag
Definition
-lady of the foothills
Term
Uruk
Definition
-has temples of An/Ishtar
-above Persian gulf, right of Ur, beneath Babylon
Term
Akkad
Definition
Term
Shulgi
when did he reign?
before and after whom?
Definition
-reigned during third dynasty of Ur
-before Amar-sin and after Ur-Namma (father)
Term
Mastaba
Definition
-the early brick structures on top of one another
-gives us our modern day periods
-old tombs preceding pyramids
Term
Nubia
had what metal?
Thutmose set up what here?
Definition
-gold
-boundary inscription
Term
Sargon
began his reign in what year?
moved political center to where/ruled over?
defeated who?
conquered what regions?
Definition
-2334-2150
-Akkad
-Lugalzegezi
-Susa, Uruk, and Mari (SUM)
Term
Hammurapi
-creates legitimacy through what?
-ruled over?
Definition
-propoganda, creating a unified hole
-king of First Babylonian Dynasty
-claims Amorite heritage
-invented Code of Hammurabi
Term
Avaris
Definition
-capitol where Hyksos live
Term
Code of Hammurabi
Definition
Term
Enki
lives where?
known for?
created what?
Definition
-Eridu
-Lord Earth
-sweet water
-humans
-cunning widsom/intelligence
Term
Ahmose I
founder of what?
expelled who?
first king of what?
Definition
-founder of the New Kingdom, expels the Hyksos
-first king of dynasty 18
Term
Thutmose I
Definition
-sets boundaries in Nubia which has tons of gold and in Syria
-didn't finish job
Term
Ur (city)
Definition
-just outside of the Euphrates
-above the Persian gulf
-to the left of Uruk
Term
Babylon (city)
Definition
-in between smallest space Euphrates & Tigris
Term
Ziggurat
built where?
used for what?
built by?
Definition
-Ur
-worship of a deity
-looked like a mountain, hollow layers of brick
-Urnamma
Term
Babylonia is a
Definition
region
Term
Seth
presence of what?
kills who?
Definition
-death
-Osiris
Term
Memphis (city)
Definition
-below the delta of the Nile River
-left side, right under the three rivers
Term
Deshret
Definition
-desert outside of cultivatable land in Egypt
Term
Kemet
Definition
-cultivatable land on sides of the Nile
-Ancient name of Egypt
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