The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 1: The First Civilizations

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Homo erectus
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Paleolithic Age
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Neolithic Age
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Mesopotamia
5


ziggurat
6


sexagesimal
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cuneiform
8


pharaoh
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Osiris
10


maat
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hieroglyphs
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Amon-Re
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aton
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Messiah
A)"Hidden"; an unseen, universal god of Egypt.
B)Terraced tower built of baked brick in Mesopotamia.
C)"Erect human being"; predecessor of the modern human species Homo sapiens.
D)New Stone Age; date of beginning of agriculture, about 11,000 B.C.
E)Egyptian concept of right order.
F)Old Stone Age; age of stone tools, ending about 11,000 B.C.
G)System of writing by pressing wedge (Lat. cuneus) into clay.
H)Disk of the sun, worshiped by Akhnaton, an Egyptian pharaoh.
I)System of mathematics based on the number 60.
J)Title of Egyptian kings from the New Kingdom onward.
K)In Hebrew, mashiah: one anointed by God to rule; title given by Christians to Jesus.
L)Egyptian god of fertility.
M)"Land between the [Tigris and Euphrates] rivers," home of early civilizations.
N)"Sacred carvings"; Egyptian style of writing using pictures.
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