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Question | Answer |
Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers" |
Sumerians | the creators of the first mesopotamia. |
Polytheistic | Beliefe in many gods. |
Ziggurats | temple was often built atop a massive stepped tower. |
Theocracy | a government by divine autherity. |
Cuneiform | system of writing. |
Hammurabi's Law Code | came to power. |
Patriarchal | is men dominate the society. |
Nile River | in the heart of africa and courses north ward for more than 4000 miles. |
Inundation | annual flooding of the nile river. |
Cataracts | waterfalls along the nile river |
King Menes | upper and lower egypt into a single king dom and created the first royal dynasty. |
Dynasty | a family of ruler whose right to rule is passed on within the family. |
Pharaoh | meaning "great house" or "place" eventually became the most common. |
Vizier | the steward of the whole land. |
Mummification | a process of slowly drying a dead to prevent it from rotting |
"ba"+"ka" | numerology |
Canopic jars | covered urn used in ancient egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body. |
Great pyramid | massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides |
King Khufu | cheops |
Sphinx | having a women's head and a lion's body. |
Old kingdom | periods which mark the high point of civilization in the lower nile river. |
Fertile crescent | region in the middle east which curves,known as the cradle of civilization. |
Silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the nile river. |
Sarcophagus | outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
king khufu's boat | in 1952 buried under the great pyramid, |
Hieroglyphics | egyptian picture writing |
The rosetta stone | a stone with writing on it in two language |
hykoso | invaded egypt |
Hatshepsut | First wamen to be the king not a queen |
Akhenaten | believed in only on sun of god. |
King tut | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived.. |
Ramses 2 | great reigned 67 years |
papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the nile river |
culture diffusion | ideas spread from culture to culture. |
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