Honors World History Mid-Term by Andrew

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  1. 2. / Priest of Hinduism
  2. 5. / book of poems, prayers, prophecies, and praises
  3. 7. / an Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C.
  4. 10. / a singular, monotheistic idea of a creator being
  5. 12. / Assyrian king bragged that he had destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned Babylon and ordered most of its inhabitants killed.
  6. 16. / the ruler of a group of people
  7. 17. / Ancient people who lived in the geographic region of sumer.
  8. 18. / Allied with the Chaldeans, and helped to burn and level the city on Nineveh.
  9. 21. / The new Babylonians, their king was king Nebuchadnezzar, they burned Nineveh and were a combined army with the Medes
  10. 22. / ____ lived in cities along the Mediterranean.
  11. 26. / What do historians call summer's walled settlements? NOTE: One of the boxes uses a -
  12. 27. / ____ is the process of rapping a body in cloth.
  13. 33. / A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its bank.
  14. 34. / land between two rivers
  15. 35. / Hinduism's "heaven"
  16. 37. / The ____ kingdom was called "The Golden Age" in Egypt.
  17. 38. / formal agreements between nations
  18. 39. / An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who renounced his wealth and social position. He enunciated the principles of Buddhism.
  19. 40. / What day of the week is the Jewish Sabbath?
  20. 42. / a family of rulers that maintain power from one generation to the next was called a ___
  21. 44. / The Sumerians invented something that made it possible for their armies to use chariots. What was it?
  22. 46. / The first patriarch of the Bible. ____ was asked by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac, and was rewarded for being prepared to do so.
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  1. 1. / used by Hittites in chariots and weapons, much stronger than bronze, Hittites were first to work with it and harden it into weapons
  2. 3. / Finally in 670 B.C. the New Kingdom ended and was taken over by the _____
  3. 4. / the act of moving from one place to settle in another
  4. 6. / Loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually very small in diameter
  5. 8. / a person chosen to interpret laws, decide on a winner or settle a controversy
  6. 9. / In Buddhism, the teachings of the Buddha.
  7. 11. / persons who have a close relationship with God and communicate a divine message
  8. 13. / An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 clay tablets from the fertile crescent, which were stored in a libary
  9. 14. / A deep wide trench around the walls of a castle or fortress usually filled with water and used for protection.
  10. 15. / a system of government based on relationships or agreements between kings, lords, and peasants
  11. 17. / (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism)
  12. 18. / Who is the founder of Judaism?
  13. 19. / God of destruction. Cults devoted to it.
  14. 20. / children, grandchildren, and continuing generations
  15. 23. / A Chaldean King who restored the city Babylon 1000 years after Hammurabi. Restored the hanging gardens.
  16. 24. / What was the Sumerian written language called?
  17. 25. / A great walled city on the Tigres River where the fertile crescent is located. The largest city of its day, which held a large library
  18. 26. / a legal, binding agreement; a contract
  19. 28. / one of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India-priests, warriors, peasants or traders, and non-Aryan laborers or craftsmen.
  20. 29. / an ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center
  21. 30. / a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind.
  22. 31. / territories controlled by other countries
  23. 32. / These set of laws included and "Eye for an Eye" these set of laws were called ____ 's Code.
  24. 36. / an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea
  25. 39. / The ultimate god. Everyone's goal should be to eventually join _____ after a few cycles of life. No cults devoted to it due to its holiness.
  26. 41. / a man-made barrier built to protect China from invaders was called "The ___ wall of China".
  27. 43. / acquired a large empire; developed a military machine and established a well-organized administration.
  28. 45. / The day of the week set apart as sacred, meant for rest from work and honouring God.