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| Question | Answer |
| 1. Mesopotamia 2. Fertile Crescent | 1.Is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq 2. a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of Western Asia |
| 3. Polytheistic 4. Ziggurat | 3. Worship of or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses 4. Giant structure having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels. |
| 5. Theocracy 6. Cuneiform | 5. Form of Government; official policy is governed by officials regarded as divinely guided 6. One of the earliest known systems of writing, |
| 7. Hammurabi's Law Codes 8. Patriarchal | 7. A well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1772 BC. 8. of, relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men. |
| 9. Nile River 10. Inundation | 9. The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is 6,853 miles long. 10. Annual flooding of the Nile River. |
| 11. Silt 12. King Menes | 11. Granular material of a size somewhere between sand and clay 12. Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, founder of the first dynasty. |
| 13. Dynasty 14. Pharaoh | 13. A line of hereditary rulers of a country. 14. A ruler in ancient Egypt. |
| 15. "Ba" 16. "Ka" | 15. form of a bird with a human head 16. They believed that the human had two bodies, Physical and Spiritual. Ka is the Spiritual body. |
| 17. Mummification 18. Canopic Jars | 17. Process in which the skin and flesh of a corpse can be preserved. 18. Used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. |
| 19. Sarcophagus 20. The Great Pyrimad | 19. Stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations; Egypt. 20. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis |
| 21. King Khufu’s boat 22. Great Sphinx | 21. It was apparently part of the extensive grave goods intended for use in the afterlife, and contained no bodies, unlike northern European ship burials. 22. A limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx |
| 21. King Khufu’s boat 22. Great Sphinx | 21. It was apparently part of the extensive grave goods intended for use in the afterlife, and contained no bodies, unlike northern European ship burials. 22. A limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx |
| 23. Hieroglyphics 24. Hyksos | 23. Formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. 24. Asiatic people from West Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt |
| 25. Thutmose 26 King Tut | 25. Sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. 26. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom |
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