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Flashcards by cheyennemallek12, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by cheyennemallek12
over 9 years ago
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Mesopotamia
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the land between the rivers |
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Polytheistic
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The belief in many Gods |
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Cuneiform
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A "wedged shape" system of writing |
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Hammurabi's Law Code
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based on a system of strict justice |
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Partriarchal
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men dominated the society |
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Nile River
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begins at the heart of Africa and courses northward for more than 4,000 miles |
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King Menes
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he united upper and lower Egypt into a single kingdom and created the first royal dynasty |
| Dynasty | a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family |
| Pharaoh | originally meaning "great house" or "palace" |
| Mummification | a process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting |
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The Great Pyramid
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the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis |
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Ramses II
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the third pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty of Egypt |
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"Ka"
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the supposed spiritual part of a human being or God |
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Canopic Jars
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Ancient Egyptians used them during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. |
| Theocracy | a system of government in which the priests rule in the name of God |
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Fertile Crescent
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a crescent shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land |
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King Khufu's Boat
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it is an intact full size vessel from ancient Egypt |
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Silt
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fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment |
| Inundation | the annual flooding of the Nile River |
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Sarcophagus
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a stone coffin |
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Great Sphinx
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commonly 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 |
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Hyksos
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people of mixed Semitic and Asian descent who invaded Egypt and settled in the Nile |
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