Birth of Civilization, Video Vocabulary

Birth of Civilization

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1. civilization

2. city

3. metropolis

4. monuments

5. transportation

6. urban

7. artifacts

8. scholarship

9. levy

10. amenities

11. origins

12. agriculture

13. peasant

14. Near East

15. Mesopotamia

16. alluvial

17. torrents

18. Sumerian

19. city-state

20. hegemony

21. Sargon

22. Syria

23. Mediterranean

24. centralized

25. Ur

26. ziggarat

27. Persian

28. Nineveh

29. Amorites

30. Hammurabi

31. cultivation

32. Tigris/Euphrates

33. Menes

34. dynasty

35. rural

36. Aswan

37. Indus

38. Pakistan

39. Indo-European

40. Harappa

41. Mohenjodaro (Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan)

42. Huang

43. steppes

44. Shang

45. ritual

46. scribes

47. Babylon

48. Nebuchadnezzar

49. Hanging Gardens

50. Cheops

51. hierarchy

52. differentiation

53. bureaucrats

54. specialization

55. craftsmen

56. utilitarian

57. diadem

58. priests

59. Lagash

60. pictographs

61. cuneiform

62. script

63. Linear A & B

64. calendar

65. formulae

66. equations

67. Crete

68. Minoan

69. Mesomerican

70. metallurgy

71. oligarchy

72. democracy

73. dichotomy