Ch.2 Ancient Mesopotamia & egypt

Questão	Responda
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.

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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