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Flashcards by Keyonna Burks, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Keyonna Burks
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | Name means " Land between 2 rivers"; where the 1st civilization began; present day iraq & syria |
| Fertile Crescent | The region in the middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; known as the Cradel of Civilization.hpml |
| polytheistic (aka polytheism) | belief in MANY gods; Ancient Sumerians believed over 3,000 gods. |
| ziggurat | The massive platform that the sumerians built their religious temples on |
| Theocracy | Means "rule by god"; describes a govt where the ruler is thought to be a god |
| Cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the sumerians; "wedge- shape writing" |
| Hammurabi's Law Code | 1st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by king Hammurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth |
| Patriarchal | Describes a society dominated by men |
| Nile River | The longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "The gift of the Nile River'; Egyptians depended on the river for everything |
| Inundation | The annual flooding of the Nile River. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud |
| silt | Rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River |
| King Menes (36) | king who united upper and lower egypt around 3100 BC |
| Dynasty | Means " great house of"; a family of rulers |
| Pharaoh | Name for Egyptian King |
| "ka" | ancient egyptians thought that when someone died ka, or the life force, left the physical body; the ka could eat and drink but was stuck in the tomb in the body of the mummy or the small statues that were left in the tombs |
| ba | The ba was part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods; the symbol of the ba is often shown as a bird with a human head and wings |
| mummification | it was very important to ancient egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. Their method of preserving the body was called mummification. This process lasted 70 days |
| canopic jars | containers used to hold the internal organs of the dead that was going to be mummified.; the jar had lids shaped as the heads of the 4 sons of horus |
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