Karteikarten
Chapter 2 Vocabulary Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
Karten in diesem Stapel (22)
- 1Mesopotamiathe land between the rivers
- 2PolytheisticThe belief in many Gods
- 3CuneiformA "wedged shape" system of writing
- 4Hammurabi's Law Codebased on a system of strict justice
- 5Partriarchalmen dominated the society
- 6Nile Riverbegins at the heart of Africa and courses northward for more than 4,000 miles
- 7King Meneshe united upper and lower Egypt into a single kingdom and created the first royal dynasty
- 8Dynastya family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family
- 9Pharaohoriginally meaning "great house" or "palace"
- 10Mummificationa process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting
- 11The Great Pyramidthe oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis
- 12Ramses IIthe third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
- 13"Ka"the supposed spiritual part of a human being or God
- 14Canopic JarsAncient Egyptians used them during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife.
- 15Theocracya system of government in which the priests rule in the name of God
- 16Fertile Crescenta crescent shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land
- 17King Khufu's Boatit is an intact full size vessel from ancient Egypt
- 18Siltfine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment
- 19Inundationthe annual flooding of the Nile River
- 20Sarcophagusa stone coffin
- 21Great Sphinxcommonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile
- 22Hyksospeople of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile
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