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Flashcards by GageLegere18, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | "Land between the rivers" Located in the region known as the Fertile Crescent |
| Sumerians | An ancient civilization |
| Polytheistic | Refers to the worship of or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. |
| Ziggurats | "To build on a raised area" |
| Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
| Cuneiform | Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | Is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. |
| Patriarchal | characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men. |
| Nile River | Is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is 6,853 km (4,258 miles) long. |
| Inundation | An overwhelming abundance of people or things. Flooding. |
| Cataracts | A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision. |
| King Menes | Menes was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the first dynasty |
| Dynasty | A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a feudal or monarchical system but sometimes also appearing in elective republics. |
| Pharaoh | A ruler in ancient Egypt. |
| Vizier | A high official in some Muslim countries, especially in Turkey under Ottoman rule. |
| Mummification | The earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in small pits in the desert. The heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the bodies quickly, creating lifelike and natural 'mummies'. |
| "Ba" "Ka" | The Ba part of the soul had more freedom and could go on journeys to follow their gods. The Ka part of the soul was what we might call the life force of the person |
| Canopic Jars | Were used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. |
| Great Pyramid | The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. |
| King Khufu | Khufu, originally Khnum-Khufu, is the birth name of a Fourth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period |
| Sphinx | Is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the head of a human and the body of a lion. |
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