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| Questão | Responda |
| Mesopotamia | Name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilizations 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) (27) | Belief in MANY gods; Ancient Sumerians Believed in over 3,000 gods. |
| Ziggurat | The massive platform that the Sumerians built their religious temples on |
| Theocracy | Means "rule by god"; describes a govt. where the ruler is thought to be a God ex. Ancient Egypt. |
| Cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the Sumerians. |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | 1st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by King Hammurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. |
| 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; Egyptians depended on the nile for everything. |
| Inundation | The annual flooding of the Nile River. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud. |
| Silt | Rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River |
| King Menes | King who united lower & upper Egypt around 3100 BC |
| 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 life force, left the physical body: The Ka could drink |
| Hyksos | Invaded Egypt: and ruled for 200 years: introduced the horse drawn chariot. |
| Hatshepsut | First great woman ruler in the 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 old gods and obliterated their names from monuments. |
| King Tut | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers:; more than 3,000 artifacts discovered in his tomb. |
| Ramses ii | 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 |
| Papyrus | Reed like plant that grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write on |
| Cultural diffusion | The spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture. |
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