Chapter 1: Part 2

• Babylonian


  Largest city in the vast Babylonian empire. +

  Founded more than 4000 years ago as a small port on the Euphrates river, the city's ruins are located in present Iraq.
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylons


  According to legends the great King Nebuchadnezzar II built it for his wife, Queen Amytis.
• Code of Hammurabi


  Longest, best organized, and best preserved legal text from the ancient Near East.
• Egyptian


  The most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3000 B.C to 30 B.C.

  Left behind numerous monuments, documents, and works of art that continue to be studied by the scholars today.
• Paper/ Papyrus


  from palnt (Nile river); writing
• Ink


  Combining soot with chemicals
• Hieroglyphics


  writing system using symbols
• Cosmetics


  for health and aesthetic reasons; Kohl (soot or malachite with mineral galena); makeup= protected from evil; beauty= holiness.
• Wig


  for health and wellness; protect shaved heads of wealthy Egyptians.
• Waterclock/ Clepsydra


  gravity affecting water flow to measure time ; timekeeping device.
• Shadoof


  Hand-operated device for lifting water
• Egyptian Pyramids


  glorification of life after death ; monuments to house the tombs of the pharaohs.
• Greek


  An archipelago in the southeastern part of Europe.

  Known as the birthplace of western philosophy and mathematics.
• Alarm clock


  Using Water, small stones, or sand that dropped into drums which sounded the alarm.
• Water mill


  agriculture (milling of grains); food processing
• Antikythera Mechanism 


  world's first analog computer, created to accurately calculate position of the sun, moon, and plantes.
• Aeolipile 


  steam turbine invented in the 1st century ad by Heron of Alexandria.
• Roman


  Built one of the greatest empires in the world history.

  Perceived the strongest political and social entity in the west.

  Cosidered the cradle of politics and governance.
• Newspaper


  gazettes ( engraved in metal/ stone tablets); publishing
• Bound books/ Codex


  record-keeping; documenting events and legislated laws; Julius Caesar.
• Roman Architecture


  sturdier and stringer infrastructures; coliseums, aqueducts, ampitheaters, residential houses.
• Roman Numerals


  number system , standard counting method.
• Medieval/ Middle Ages 


  Age of Exploration
• Chinese


  Responsible for a rich culture, still evident in modern China.

  Considered as the oldest civilization in Asia.
• Silk


  Produce paper and clothing; silk trade
• Tea Production


  shredded dried tea leaves
• Great Wall of China


  man-made structure seen from the outer space; to keep out foreign invaders; control the borders of China
• Gunpowder


  Chinese alchemists for immortality; bullets from guns and cannons