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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | land between rivers |
| Fertile Crescent | the region in the middle east wich curves, like a quarter-moon shape |
| polythestic | belief in many gods |
| ziggurat | the massive temples that the sumerians built there religious temples on |
| theocracy | rule by god |
| cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the sumerians |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | 1st written laws |
| Patriarchal | describes a society dominated by men |
| NIle River | The longest river in the world |
| Inundation | the annual flooding of the nile river |
| Silt | rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the nile river |
| King Menes | King who united lower & upper Egypt around 3100 BC |
| Dynasty | Means great house of a family of rulers |
| Pharaoh | name of Egyptian KIng |
| ka | ancient Egyptians thoughts that when someone died th Ka or the life force, left the physical body |
| Ba | The Ba was the part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods |
| Mummification | It was very important to ancient egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. |
| Canopic Jars | Containers used to hold the internal organs of the deceased that was going to be mummified |
| Sarcophagus | A sarcophagus formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within, and was often carved out of alabaster |
| King khufu Cheopes | earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh resonsible for the great pyramid at giza which he built to serve as his tomb |
| The Great Pyramid | Largest of the 3 pyramids at Giza |
| Great Sphinx | one of the largest and oldest statues in the world |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptians picture writing |
| The Rosetta Stone | a stone with writing on it in two languages using scripts |
| Hyksos | invaded Egypt and ruled for 200 years |
| Hatshepsut | first great woman ruler in history |
| Akhenaten | rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or sun disc, after whom he renamed himself. |
| King Tut | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers |
| Ramses 2nd | The great resigned 67 years |
| Papyrus | reed plant that grows on the nile river ancient egyptians used to write on |
| Culture Diffusion | the spreading of ideas from one culture to another |
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