Chapter 2 Vocabulary Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

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Mesopotamia the land between the rivers
Polytheistic The belief in many Gods
Cuneiform A "wedged shape" system of writing
Hammurabi's Law Code based on a system of strict justice
Partriarchal
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men dominated the society
Nile River begins at the heart of Africa and courses northward for more than 4,000 miles
King Menes he united upper and lower Egypt into a single kingdom and created the first royal dynasty
Dynasty a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family
Pharaoh originally meaning "great house" or "palace"
Mummification a process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting
The Great Pyramid the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis
Ramses II the third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
"Ka" the supposed spiritual part of a human being or God
Canopic Jars Ancient Egyptians used them during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife.
Theocracy a system of government in which the priests rule in the name of God
Fertile Crescent a crescent shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land
King Khufu's Boat it is an intact full size vessel from ancient Egypt
Silt fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment
Inundation the annual flooding of the Nile River
Sarcophagus a stone coffin
Great Sphinx commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile
Hyksos people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile
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