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Pregunta | Respuesta |
Mesopotamia | "Land between the rivers" located in the region known as the Fertile Crescent. |
fertile cresent | the region in the middle east which curves,like a quater moon-shape |
Polytheistic | The belief in many Gods. |
ZIggurats | A rectangular stepped tower,where the sumerians built their religious temples on. |
Theocracy | means "rule by god",the ruler is thought to be a god. |
Cuneiform | "wedge shaped" as system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to create wedge-shaped impressions on a clay tablet. |
Hammurabi's Law code | First written laws. |
Patriarchal | Dominated by men. |
Nile river | Longest river in the world, and floods so farm crops can grow every year. |
Inundation | The annual flooding of the Nile River. |
Cataracts | Waterfalls along the Nile River. |
King Menes | He reigned Egypt from 3407 to 3346 B.C. and he united Egypt under one rule. |
Dynasty | A family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family. |
Pharaoh | name of the egyptian king. |
Vizier | A high government official in ancient Egypt or in Muslim countries. |
Silt | Rich,black soil left behind by the yearly flood. |
Mummification | The internal organs were removed and all the moisture from the body was removed, then the body was wrapped in long strips of linens and then, covered by a long linen cloth. |
"Ba" + "Ka" | ka-left the physical body ba-was part of the soul |
Canopic Jars | A covered urn used in Ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body. |
Great pyramid | The great pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest. Its a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides. |
King Khufu | A Fourth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period. |
Sphinx | A winged monster of Thebes having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide. |
Old kingdom | The name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization |
Middle Kingdom | The period of history of ancient Egypt. c2000-1785 b.c. |
New kingdom | The period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt. |
Queen Hatshepsut | first great women ruler in history. she ruled egypt as a king not a queen |
Tutankhamek | 17 year old boy whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers |
Ramses 11 | 225 B.C., king of ancient Egypt, of the XIX dynasty. |
cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture. |
papyrus | reed like plant used to write on. |
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