HIST 2110 Quiz: HIST 2110 – Key Terms; Unit 4
31 Jan 2017
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Neo-assyrian empire: the first half of the neo-assyrian empire is until 828 bc, the second half resumes in 745 bc. Indo-european: the name we give to a family of languages that include the. Slavic, romance, and germanic languages; the largest single language family in the world. Israelites: first mentioned by merneptah in 1206 bc; indigenous people who reconfigure their identity and call themselves israel; a group that was already there under a different name. Derivatives: a symbol that indicates that the following word belongs to a certain category. Damascus: originally called donkey town for its use of major commercial cross-roads for donkey caravans, a sign of high civilization. Bible poetry: not based on rhyming, the way much of western poetry is, based on a concept called the parallelism of members or parallelismus membrorum. Orthostats: set up on gates and walls, carved with scenes in a style that is typically neo-hittite; often contained hieroglyphic inscriptions (cid:272)ele(cid:271)rati(cid:374)g the ki(cid:374)g"s a(cid:272)ts.
