Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

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Ch. 2 Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
Miguel Lopez-Garcia
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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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