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Flashcards by mdeleon-tomas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by mdeleon-tomas
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers" |
| Sumerians | the creators of the first mesopotamia. |
| Polytheistic | Beliefe in many gods. |
| Ziggurats | temple was often built atop a massive stepped tower. |
| Theocracy | a government by divine autherity. |
| Cuneiform | system of writing. |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | came to power. |
| Patriarchal | is men dominate the society. |
| Nile River | in the heart of africa and courses north ward for more than 4000 miles. |
| Inundation | annual flooding of the nile river. |
| Cataracts | waterfalls along the nile river |
| King Menes | upper and lower egypt into a single king dom and created the first royal dynasty. |
| Dynasty | a family of ruler whose right to rule is passed on within the family. |
| Pharaoh | meaning "great house" or "place" eventually became the most common. |
| Vizier | the steward of the whole land. |
| Mummification | a process of slowly drying a dead to prevent it from rotting |
| "ba"+"ka" | numerology |
| Canopic jars | covered urn used in ancient egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body. |
| Great pyramid | massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides |
| King Khufu | cheops |
| Sphinx | having a women's head and a lion's body. |
| Old kingdom | periods which mark the high point of civilization in the lower nile river. |
| Fertile crescent | region in the middle east which curves,known as the cradle of civilization. |
| Silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the nile river. |
| Sarcophagus | outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
| king khufu's boat | in 1952 buried under the great pyramid, |
| Hieroglyphics | egyptian picture writing |
| The rosetta stone | a stone with writing on it in two language |
| hykoso | invaded egypt |
| Hatshepsut | First wamen to be the king not a queen |
| Akhenaten | believed in only on sun of god. |
| King tut | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived.. |
| Ramses 2 | great reigned 67 years |
| papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the nile river |
| culture diffusion | ideas spread from culture to culture. |
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