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Flashcards by Melissa Valadez-Suarez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Melissa Valadez-Suarez
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilizations began; present day Iraq & Syria | Mesopotamia |
| the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter- moon shape; Known as the Cradle of Civilization | Fertile Crescent |
| belief in MANY gods; Ancient Sumerians built their religious temples on | Polytheistic (aka polytheism) |
| means "rule by god"; describes a govt. where the ruler is thought to be a God ex. Ancient Egypt | Theocracy |
| 1st writing system developed by the Sumerians; "wedge-shape writing" | Cuneiform |
| 1st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by King Hammurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an eye, a tooth for a tooth | Hammurabi's Law Code |
| describes a society dominated by men | Patriarchal |
| the longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "the gift of the Nile River"; Egyptians depended on the Nile for everything | Nile River |
| the annual flooding of the Nile River. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud. | Inundation |
| rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River | Silt |
| King who united Lower & Upper Egypt around 3100 BC | King Menes |
| means "great house of"; a family of rulers | Dynasty |
| name for Egyptian king | Pharaoh |
| ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the Ka, or the life of force, 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" |
| the symbol of the Ba is often shown as a bird with a human head and wings | "Ba" |
| it was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. The process lasted up to 70 days. | Mummification |
| containers used to hold the internal organs(lungs, stomach, intestines, liver) of the deceased that was going to be mummified; jars had lids of the heads of the 4 sons of Horus | Canopic Jars |
| Sarcophagus |
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