Frage | Antworten |
mesopotamia | name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilization began; present day iraq & syria |
fertile crescent | the region in the middle east which curves,like a quarter-moon shape; known as the cradle of civilization |
polytheistic(aka polytheism) | belief in many god;ancient sumerians believed in over 3000 gods |
ziggurat | the massive platform that the sumerians built their religious temples on |
theocracy | means ruled by god |
cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the sumerians wedge shape writing |
hammurabi's law code | 1st written laws |
patriarchal | describes a society dominated by men |
nile river | the longest river in the world egypt is often called the gift of the nile river |
inundation | the annual flooding of the nile river |
silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding river leave behind rich fertile mud |
king menes | king who united lower &upper egypt around 3100 bc |
dynasty | means great house of a family of rulers |
pharaoh | name of egyptian king |
ka | ancient egyptians thought when someone died the ka or the life force |
ba | the ba was part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods |
mummification | it was very important to ancient egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved |
canopic jars | containers used to hold the internal organs |
sarcophagus | the formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
king khufu's boat | discovered in 1952 buried under the great pyramid |
great sphinx | one the largest and oldest statues in the world |
hieroglyphics | egyptian writing |
the rosetta stone | a stone with writing on it in two languages |
hyksos | invaded egypt and ruled 200 years introduced the horse drawn chariot |
hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history she ruled egypt as a king not queen |
akhenaten | rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the aten |
king tut | 17 years old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers |
ramses 2 | ramses the great reigned 67 years defeated the hittites fathered over 100 children |
papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the nile river ancient egyptians used to write on |
culture diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture |
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