Flashcards
Ancient Mesopotamia & Eqypt
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- 1Name means '' land between the rivers''; where 1st civilization beagan; present day Iraq & SyriaMesopotamia
- 2The region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; known as the Cradle of CivilizationFertile Crescent
- 3Belif in MANY gods; Ancient Sumerians belived in over 3,000 gods.Polytheistic (aka polytheism)
- 4The massive plateform that the Sumerians bult their religus temples onZiggurat
- 5Means '' rule by god '' ; describes a govt. where the ruler is thought to be a God ex. Ancient EqyptTheocracy
- 61st writing system developed by the Sumerians ; ''wedge shape writing''Cuneiform
- 71st 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 toothHammurabi's Law Code (33)
- 8Describes a society dominated by menPatriarchal
- 9The longest river in the world; Eqypt is often called ''the gift of the Nile River; Egyptians depended on the Nile for everythingNile River (34)
- 10The annual flooding of the Nile RIver. The flood river leave behind rish feritle mudInundation
- 11Rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile RiverSilt
- 12King who united lower & upper Eqypt around 3100 BCKing Menes (36)
- 13Means ''great house of'' ; a family of rulersDynasty
- 14Name for Egyptian KingPharaoh
- 15Ancient egyptians thought that when some died for Ka, or the life froce, left the physical body; The Ka could drink and eat, but was stuck in the tomb in the body of the mummy or the small statues that were left in the tomb''Ka''
- 16The Ba was the part of the soul that embarked on a journey to foolw the gods; the symbol of the Ba is often shown as a bird with a human head and wings"Ba"
- 17It was very important to ancient Egyptian beliefs that the human body was preserved. Their method of preserving the body was called mummification. The process lasted up to 70 daysMummification
- 18Containers used to hold the internal organs ( kungs, stomach, intestines, liver) of the deceased that was going to be mummified; the jars had lids shaped as the heads of the 4 sons of HorusCanopic Jars
- 19A sorcophagus formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within, and was often carved out of alabasterSarcophagus
- 20Earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh responsible for the Great Pyrimad at Giza which he bult to serve as his tombKing Khufu ( aka Cheops ( KEE-ops)
- 21Largest of the 3 pyramids at Giza; bult by King Khufu; the only monument of the 7 wonders of the ancient world to surviveThe Great Pyramid
- 22Discoverd in 1952 buried under the Great Pyramid; it would be needed to ferry King Khufu's spirit across the sky to be with Ra, the sun godKing Khufu's Boat
- 23One of the largest and oldest statues in the world. Archeologist belive that it was carved around 2500 BC and that the head is meant to be the likeness of the Pharaoh KhafraGreat Sphinx
- 24Egyptian picture writingHierologyphics
- 25A stone with writing on it in two languages ( Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts( hieroglyphic , demotic and Greek)The Rosetta Stone
- 26Invaded Egypt; and ruled for 200 years; introduced the horse drawn chairotHyksos (40)
- 27First great women ruler in history ; she ruled Egypt as king not queen. Sculptures and masks show her with a false beardHatshepsut ( hat-SHEP-soot)
- 28Rejected the traditonal religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or sun disc, after whom he renamed himself. He closed all the temples to the old gods and obliterated their names from monumentsAkhenaten ( aka Amenhotep )
- 2917 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers; more than 3,000 artifacts discoverd in his tombKing Tut ( Tutankhamen )
- 30Ramses the Great reigned 67 years; fathered over 100 children; deafeted the Hittites, the other superpower of ancient rimes; he declared himself a living godRamses ll
- 31Reed like plant that grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write onPapyrus
- 32The spreading of ideas from one culture to another cultureCultural Diffusion