Flashcards
Ch.2 Vocabulary AncientMesopotamia &Egypt
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1MesopotamiaName means land between the rivers.
- 2TheocracyMeans rule by god.
- 3DynastyMeans great house of a family or rulers.
- 4HieroglyphicsEgyptian picture writing.
- 5PharaohName for Egyptian King.
- 6PatriarchalDescribes a society dominated by men.
- 7HyksosInvaded Egypt and ruled for 200 years.
- 8HatashepsutFirst great woman ruler in history.
- 9PolytheisticBelief in many Gods.
- 10MummificationIt was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved.
- 11Great SphinxOne of the world's largest and oldest statues in the world.
- 12The Rosetta StoneA stone with writing on it in two languages.
- 13AkhenatenRejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or sun disc, after whom he renamed himself.
- 14PapyrusReed like plant that grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write on.
- 15Cultural DiffusionThe spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture.
