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Flashcards by ariel.shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ariel.shaw
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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