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Chapter 2 Vocabulary Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt

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- 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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