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Flashcards by Hermindo Diaz De Leon, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hermindo Diaz De Leon
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| mesopotamia | name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilization 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(aka polytheism) | belief in many god;ancient sumerians believed in over 3000 gods |
| ziggurat | the massive platform that the sumerians built their religious temples on |
| theocracy | means ruled by god |
| cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the sumerians wedge shape writing |
| hammurabi's law code | 1st written laws |
| patriarchal | describes a society dominated by men |
| nile river | the longest river in the world egypt is often called the gift of the nile river |
| inundation | the annual flooding of the nile river |
| silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding river leave behind rich fertile mud |
| king menes | king who united lower &upper egypt around 3100 bc |
| dynasty | means great house of a family of rulers |
| pharaoh | name of egyptian king |
| ka | ancient egyptians thought when someone died the ka or the life force |
| ba | the ba was part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods |
| mummification | it was very important to ancient egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved |
| canopic jars | containers used to hold the internal organs |
| sarcophagus | the formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
| king khufu's boat | discovered in 1952 buried under the great pyramid |
| great sphinx | one the largest and oldest statues in the world |
| hieroglyphics | egyptian writing |
| the rosetta stone | a stone with writing on it in two languages |
| hyksos | invaded egypt and ruled 200 years introduced the horse drawn chariot |
| hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history she ruled egypt as a king not queen |
| akhenaten | rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the aten |
| king tut | 17 years old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers |
| ramses 2 | ramses the great reigned 67 years defeated the hittites fathered over 100 children |
| papyrus | reed like plant that grows on the nile river ancient egyptians used to write on |
| culture diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture |
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