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Pregunta | Respuesta |
Mesopotamia | Land between the two rivers, Euphrates and Tigris |
polytheistic | Belief of many Gods |
Zigurrat | A massive stepped tower |
Theocracy | A government by divine authority |
Cuneiform | A system of writing |
Hammurabi's law code | First written laws given to people of ancient babylon by king Hammurabi |
Patriarchal | Society dominated by men |
Nile river | Begins in heart of Africa and courses northward for more than 4,000 miles |
Fertile cresent | The region in the middle east which curves like a quarter moon shape |
Inundation | The annual flooding of the Nile river |
Silt | Rich black mud left by the flooding of the Nile river |
King Menes | King who united lower and upper egypt |
Dynasty | Means great house of a family of a family of rulers |
Pharaoh | Name for Egyptian king |
Ka | The life force |
Ba | Part of the soul that embarked on to follow the gods |
Mummification | Preserved human body |
Canopic jars | Containers used to hold organs during mummification |
Sarcophagus | Formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
King Khufu | Pharaoh who built the great pyramid of Giza to hold his grave |
The Great Pyramid | Largest of the three pyramids of Giza |
King Khufu's boat | Discovered in 1952 buried under the great pyramid it would be needed to carry king Khufu's spirit across the sky to be with Ra |
Great Sphinx | One of the oldest and largest statue in the world |
Hieroglyphs | Egyptian picture writing |
The rosetta stone | A stone with writing in two languages |
Hyskos | Invaded Egypt and ruled for 200 years introduced the horse drawn charriot |
Hatshepsut | First great woman ruler in history she ruled Egypt as king not queen sculptures and mask show her with a false beard |
Akhenaten | Rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or the sun disk 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 3000 artifacts are discovered in this tomb |
Ramses 2 | Ramses the great reigned 67 years fathered over 100 children the defeated the Hittites |
Papyrus | Reed like plant that grows on the Nile river ancient Egyptians used to right on |
Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of ideas from one culture to another |
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