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Flashcards by aburgacupen, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers"; located in the eastern |
| sumerians | the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization |
| Fertile Crescent | the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape |
| polytheistic | humans were supposed to obey and serve the gods |
| ziggurats | often built atop massive stepped towers |
| theocracy | a government by divine authority |
| cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia |
| Hammurabi's law code | a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi and dealing with criminal and civil matters |
| patrisarchal | relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men |
| Nile river | begins in the heart of Africa and courses northward for more than 4,000 miles |
| inundation | annual flooding of the Nile river |
| cataracts | waterfalls along the Nile river |
| Silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River |
| king menes | an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period |
| dynasty | a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family |
| pharaoh | originally meaning "great house" or "palace" eventually became the most common |
| vizier | in charge of the government bureaucracy |
| mummification | a process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting |
| ba + ka | The ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts |
| canopic jars | used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife |
| great pyramid | an enormous construction project |
| Sarcophagus | formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
| king khufu | ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period |
| sphinx | a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the head of a human and the body of a lion |
| old kingdom | the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement |
| middle kingdom | the period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC |
| new kingdom | the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC |
| queen hatshepsut | one of the first women to become pharaoh |
| king tut | an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom |
| Ramses ii (the great) | the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt |
| cleopatra vii | the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt |
| scribe | a person who writes books or documents by hand in hieroglyphics |
| hieroglyphics | a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements |
| The Rosetta Stone | a stone with writing on it in two languages |
| Hyksos | invaded Egypt; and ruled for 200 years; introduced the horse drawn chariot |
| Hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history |
| Akhenaten | rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or sun disc |
| Papyrus | reed like plant grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write on |
| Cultural Diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture |
