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| arch shaped piece of land between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea that was great for farming |
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Tigris River/ Euphrates River |
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| the areas between these two rivers are the areas of land that would support early agriculture. |
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| The cities and city states that developed along the rivers of southern Mesopotamia between 3500 and 2340 BCE. |
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During Sumerian period, Akkadians settled north of Uruk.
They adopted Sumerian culture, but spoke a Semitic language.
Under political figure Sargon I (“King of the Four Quarters of the World”), they conquered most of Mesopotamia. |
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| Capitol city of the ruler Hammurabi (ruled 1750-1792 BCE). |
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Rose to dominance in northern Mesopotamia around 1400 BCE.
After 1000 BCE, they started to conquer neighboring regions. By the end of the 9th century BCE, they controlled most of Mesopotamia, and by the early 7th century BCE they had extended their influence all the way to Egypt.
Their empire collapsed by 600 BCE. |
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| A small cylindrical stone decorated with incised patterns. When rolled across soft clay or wax, the resulting raised pattern or design (relief) served in Mesopotamian and Indus Valley cultures as an identifying signature. |
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| Leader's title of Mesopotamian city-states |
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| Major God in Mesopotamia. Goddess of fertility, love, war, human sexuality. Depicted by bundles of reeds. (Uruk Vase) (Sumer) |
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| In Egyptian tombs, the small room in which the ka statue was placed. |
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| A flat topped, one story structure with slanted walls over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb. |
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Pharaoh during Amarna period. (He was an unorthodox Pharoah)
Stele of Akhenaten.
Through out religious beliefs, worshipped sun disk Aten.
Married to Nefertiti.
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| An architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements supporting a horizontal element. |
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An early roofing and arching technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer until the uppermost corbels meet. |
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The main hall of a Mycenaean palace or grand house, having a columnar porch and a room with central fireplace surrounded by four columns. |
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Queen (Sumeria)
Third Dynasty of Ur
lived about 2600-2500 BCE. |
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"hero of the good land"
was an early ruler of Ur who does not appear in the Sumerian king list |
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| Sargon I (Sargon of Akkad) |
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"the true king"
reigned 2334 B.C.E. – 2279 B.C.E.
was the founder of the Akkadian Empire |
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2254–2218 BCE ("King of the Four Quarters")
was the third successor and grandson of Sargon of Akkad
under his reign th Akkadian Empire reached its greatest point.
He was the first Mesopotamian king to claim divinity ("Sin" refers to god) for himself, and the first to be called
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was a ruler of the city of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia
ruled ca. 2144 - 2124 BC
married Ninalla, daughter of the ruler Urbaba of Lagash, thus gaining entrance to the royal house of Lagash. |
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Mesopotamian deity and the sun god in the Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian pantheons.
god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu |
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"legitimate king"
reigned 722 – 705 BC
was an Assyrian king |
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king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
reigned c. 605 BC – 562 BC.
credited with the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the destruction of the First Temple |
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the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire
ca. 550-330 BCE
"The City of Persians" |
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major north-flowing river in North Africa
the longest river in the world. (4,130 miles) long. |
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is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley
most frequently used as a division for Ancient Egypt
"the land of reeds"
It was divided into 22 districts called nomes |
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is the northern-most section of Egypt
It refers to the fertile Nile Delta region |
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The Egyptian hieroglyph was the shoulders and arms with the arms bent upwards at the elbow (similar to the "touchdown" gesture in football)
represents a symbol of the reception of the life powers from each man from the gods, it is the source of these powers, and it is the spiritual double that resides with every man. |
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the striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt |
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"Foremost of Noble Ladies" (1508–1458 BC)
was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt
one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty |
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(c. 1370 BC – c. 1330 BC)
was the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten
Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only. This was Aten, or the sun disc |
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| is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas |
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is an Early Bronze Age civilization of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea
3000 BC-2000 BC. |
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Bronze Age
Greece civilization that flourished in 3000 to 1100 bc |
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Bronze Age civilization
Ancient Crete
3000 to 1100 bc
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1600 BC – 1100 BC
Bronze Age
Greece |
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| is a prepared (or "dressed") stone work of any type of stone |
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a painting on a wall or ceiling done by rapidly brushing watercolors onto fresh damp or partly dry plaster |
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Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) |
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| is a volcanic island located in the southern Aegea Sea, about 120 mi southeast from Greece's mainland. |
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the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture |
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| a Mycenaean archaeological site in the prefecture of Argolis in the Peloponnese |
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An ancient Greek city in the northeast Peloponnesus
flourished during the Bronze Age as the center of an early civilization.
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a large bay and a town in southern Greece
It is the capital of Pylia Province
Bronze Age |
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is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture
built with huge limestone boulders and no use of mortar
The boulders are typically unworked, but are sometimes roughly worked with a hammer, and the gaps between boulders are often filled in with smaller hunks of limestone |
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