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Flashcards by Joshua Babson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joshua Babson
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | Name means and "land between the rivers"; where the first civilizations began; present day Iraq and Syria |
| Fertile Crescent | the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; Known as the CRadle of Civilization |
| polyesthic | the belief in MANY Gods; Ancient Sumerians believed in over 3000 Gods |
| Ziggurat | the massive platform that the sumerians built their religious temples on. |
| theocracy | means "rule by God"; describes a governement where the ruler is the thought to be a God. example- Ancient Egypt. |
| cuneiform | 1st writing system developed byt the sumeritans |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | !st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by King HAmmurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an eye for eye; tooth for a tooth |
| patriarchal | society dominated by men |
| Nile River | the longest river in the world; Egypt is often called the "Gift of the Nile"; Egyptians depended on the Nile for everything |
| Inundation | the annual flooding of the Nile river. the flooded river leaves behind fertile mud |
| silt | Rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile |
| King Memes | King who united Lower&Upper Egypt around 3100 BC |
| dynasty | means "great house of"; a family of rules |
| Pharaoh | name for Egyptian king |
| "KA" | ancient Eygptians thought that when someone died the ka or the life force, left the phyiscal body; the KA could drink |
| sarcophagus | the outer layer of protection for a royal mummywith several layers of coffins nested within |
| King Khufu | earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh responsible for the great pyramid at Giza which he built to serve as his tomb |
| The Great Pyramid | largest of the 3 pyramids at Giza; built by King Khufu; the only the only monument of the 7 wonders of the ancient world to survive |
| King Khufu's boat | Discovered in 1952 buried under the great pyramid, It would be King Khufu's spirit across the sky to be with Ra, the sun God |
| Great Sphinx | One of the largest and oldest statues in the world. Archeologists believe that it was carved around 2500bc and that the head is meant to be the likeness of the Pharaoh Khafra |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian picture writing |
| The Rosetta Stone | a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three |
| Dynasty | means "great house of", a family of rulers |
| Pharaoh | Name for Egyptian King |
| "Ka" | Ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the Ka, or the lifr 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 |
| "Ba" | The Ba was the 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. |
| Mummification | It was very important to Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. Their method of preserving the body was called mummification. the process lasted up to 70 days |
| Canopic Jars | Containers used to hold the internal organs of the deceased that was going to be mummified the had lids shaped as the heads of the 4 sons of Horus |
| Hyksos | Invaded Egypt and ruled for 200 years introduced the horse drawn chariot |
| Hatshepsut | First Great woman ruler in history, she ruled Egypt as king not queen. Sculptures and masks show her with a false beard |
| Akhenaten | 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 temples to the old Gods and obliterated their names from monuments |
| King Tut | 17 year old boy Paraoh whose tombed survived untouched |
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