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Flashcards by Ana Zurita Posas, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ana Zurita Posas
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| Question | Answer |
| Name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilizations began; present day Iraq and Syria | Mesopotamia |
| The region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; Known as the Cradle of Civilization | |
| Belief in many gods; Ancient Sumerians believed in over 3,000 gods | Polytheistic (polytheism) |
| The massive platform that the Sumerians built their religious temples on | Ziggurat |
| Means "rule by god"; describes a government where the ruler is thought to be a God; ex: Ancient Egypt | Theocracy |
| 1st writing system developed by the Sumerians; "wedge shape writing" | Cuneiform |
| 1st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by King Hammurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an for an eye, a tooth for a tooth | Hammurabi's Law Code (33 laws) |
| Describes a society dominated by men | Patriarchal |
| The longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "the gift of the Nile River"; Egyptians depended on the Nile for eveything | Nile River (34) |
| The annual flooding of the Nile River; The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud | Inundation |
| Rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River | Silt |
| King who united Lower and Upper Egypt around 3100 BC | King Menes (36) |
| Means "great house of"; A family of rulers | Dynasty |
| Name for Egyptian King | Pharaoh |
| The Ba was the part of the soul 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 | "Ba" |
| It was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. The process lasted up to 70 days | Mummification |
| Ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the for the life force they 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 | "Ka" |
| Containers 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 head of the 4 sons of Horus | Canopic Jars |
| Formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy. with several layers of coffins nested within, and was often carved out of alabaster | Sarcophagus |
| Earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh responsible for the Great Pyramid at Giza which he built to serve as his tomb | King Khufu (aka Cheops) |
| Largest of the 3 pyramids at Giza; Built by King Khufu; the only monument of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World to survive | The Great Pyramid |
| Discovered in 1952 buried under the Great Pyramid; It would be needed to ferry King Khufu's spirit across the sky to be with Ra, the sun god | King Khufu's Boat |
| One of the largest and oldest statues in the world; Archeologists believe that it was carved around 2500 BC and that the head is meant to be the likeness of the Pharaoh Khafra | Great Sphinx |
| Egyptian picture writing | Hieroglyphics |
| A stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek) | The Rosetta Stone |
| Invaded Egypt; Ruled for 200 years; Introduced the horse drawn chariot | Hyksos (40) |
| First great woman ruler in history; She ruled Egypt as king not as queen; Sculptures and masks show her with a false beard | Hatshepsut |
| 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 | Akhenaten |
| 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers; more than 3,000 artifacts were discovered in his tomb | King Tut (Tutankhamen) |
| Ramses the Great reigned 67 years; Fathered over 100 children; Defeated the Hittites, the other superpower of ancient times; He declared himself a living god | Ramses II |
| Reed like plant that grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write on | Papyrus |
| The spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture | Cultural Diffusion |
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