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Flashcards by Miguel Lopez-Garcia, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Miguel Lopez-Garcia
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilizations 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 | belief in MANY gods; ancient sumerians believed in 3,000 |
| the massive platform that | |
| Theocracy | means " rule by god"; describes a government; where the ruler is thought to be a god EX: Ancient Egypt |
| !st written laws; given to people of ancient Babylon by king Hammurabi; very strict laws based on the principle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth | |
| Cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the sumerian; "wedge-shaped writing" |
| Patriarchal | describes a society dominated by men |
| the longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "the gift of the nile river"; Egyptians depended on the nile for everything | |
| Inundation | the annual flooding of the nile river. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud |
| silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the nile river |
| king who united lower & upper egypt around 3100 | |
| dynasty | means "great house of"; a family of rulers |
| Pharaoh | Name for an Egyptian king |
| "KA" | ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the KA, or the life force, left the physical body;the Ka could drink and eat, but was stuck in the tomb in the body of the mummy or the small statues that were left in the tomb |
| mummification | |
| The Ba was part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods; the symbol of the ba is often shown as a bird with a human head and wings | |
| Canopic jars | contains used to hold the internal organs (lungs, stomach, intestines, liver) of the deceased that was going to be mummified; the jars had lids shaped as the heads of the four sons of horus |
| sarcophagus | ancient egyptian coffin |
| Khufu | earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh responsible for the great pyramid of giza which he built to serve as his tomb |
| the great pyramid | |
| king khufu's boat | |
| great sphinx | |
| egyptian picture writing | |
| the rosetta stone- a stone with writing on it with two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts ( hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek) | |
| hyksos | invaded Egypt; and ruled for 200 years; introduced the horse drawn chariot |
| Hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history; she ruled egypt as a king not queen. sculpture and masks show her with a false beard |
| akhenaten (aka amenhotep) | rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the aten, or sun disc, after whom he renamed himself. he closed all the temples to the old gods and obliterated their names from monuments |
| King Tut | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers; more than 3,000 artifacts discovered in his tomb |
| Ramses II | ramses the great reigned 67 years; fathered 100 children; defeated the hittites, the other superpower of the ancient times; he declared himself a living god |
| papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the nile river; Ancient Egyptians used to write on |
| cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture |
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