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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers" ; located |
| Fertile Crescent | the region in the middle east which curves . |
| Sumerians | creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization . |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods . |
| Ziggurats | built atop a massive stepped tower . |
| theocracy | government by divine authority . |
| cuneiform | system of writing . |
| Hammurabi's Law code | first written law |
| patriarchal | describes a society dominated by men. |
| Nile River | longest river in the world . |
| inundation | annual flooding of the Nile River . |
| Cataracts | waterfalls along the Nile River |
| King Menes | united upper & lower Egypt around 3100 BC. |
| dynasty | family of rulers . |
| Pharaoh | name for Egyptian King . |
| vizier | the steward of the whole land . |
| Silt | Rich , black soil left behind by the yearly flow . |
| Mummification | process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting ; preserved . |
| "Ba" + "Ka" | Ba- part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods . Ka- ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the Ka, or the life force, left the physical body . |
| canopic jars | used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. |
| Great Pyramid | located at "Giza" , largest of the 3 pyramids . |
| King Khufu | Birth name of a Fourth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period. |
| Sphinx | one of the largest and oldest statues in the world . |
| Old Kingdom | age of prosperity and splendor . |
| Middle Kingdom | a period of stability lasting from about 2055 b.c to 1650 b.c . |
| New Kingdom | launched the Egyptians along a new militaristic path . (1550 b.c to 1070 b.c) |
| Queen Hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history |
| Tutankhamen | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers . |
| Ramses 2 ( the great ) | reigned 67 years , |
| Cleopatra Vll | Last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. |
| Papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the Nile River. |
| cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture , |
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