ACS 200 Midterm: Midterm Review Guide

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Acs 210 - ideas that shape the world. Akhenaten - egyptian pharaoh, meaning of great use to the god aten. Ahura mazda - name for the creator and sole god of zoroastrianism. Ahriman - spirit of darkness and evil in zoroastrianism, antagonist of ahura mazda. Ammit - female demon in ancient egypt whose body was part lion, hippo, and crocodile (three largest man-eating animals according to egyptians) Ba - notion of personality in ancient egypt. Babylonian captivity/ exile cosmogony - period in jewish history in which a number of. Judahites of the ancient kingdom of judah were captives in babylonia. Cuneiform - relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing system in. Divination - the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. Dualism - the division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided. El/elohim - name for god used in the hebrew bible.

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