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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | located in the region known as fertile cresent |
| Sumerians | first civilazation |
| Polytheistic | belief of more than one god |
| Ziggurats | a rectuangular tower |
| Theocracy | a system of goverment |
| cuneiform | wedge shaped writings |
| Hammurabis law code | Earliest legal code |
| patriarchal | Goverment controlled by men |
| Nile River | a river in africa |
| inundation | annual flooding of nile river |
| cataracts | waterfalls along the nile |
| king menes | ancients pharoh |
| dynasty | a sequence of rulers from the same family |
| pharaoh | a ruler in anceint eygpt |
| vizier | a high offical |
| mummifaction | the body was removed of all organs and wrapped |
| ba&ka | a nomadic pymgy people |
| canopic jars | were used by eygptians durning mumifaction |
| Great pyramids | oldest is giza |
| King khufu | fourth dynasty |
| sphinx | A mythical creature lion body human head |
| old kingdom | period of 3 milleneum bc |
| middle kingdom | between 2000bc and 1700bc |
| new kingdom | eygptian empire |
| queen hatshepsut | thutmose 2 |
| tutankhameh | eygptian phoaroh |
| ramses 2 | third pharaoh |
| cleopatra | last pharaoh of ancient eygpt |
| scribe | writes books |
| hierogylyphics | early writing |
| cultural diffusion | the sreading of ideas from one culture to another. |
| deity | a god or gods |
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