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Flashcards by Kieara Porter, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kieara Porter
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers"; Where the 1st civilizations began; present day Iraq & Syria |
| Fertile Crescent | The region in the middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; known as the Cradle of civilization |
| Polytheistic (aka polytheism) | Belief in many GODS; Ancient Sumerians believed in over 3000 GODS. |
| Ziggurat | The massive platform that the sumerians built their religious temples on |
| Theocracy | Means "rule by GOD"; describes a government where the ruler is thought to be a GOD Ex: Ancient Egypt |
| Cuneiform | 1st writing system developed by the Sumerians; "wedge-shape writing" |
| Hammurabi's Law Code (33) | 1st written laws |
| Patriarchal | Describes a society dominated by men |
| Nile River | Longest river in the world |
| Inundation | 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 | "great house of"; A family of rulers |
| Pharaoh | Name for Egyptian king |
| "Ba" | Ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the Ka, or the life force, left the physical body. |
| Mummification | Their method of preserving the body was called mummification. Process lasted lasted up to 70 day. |
| Canopic jars | Containers used to hold the Internal organs of the deceased that was going to be mummified. |
| Sarcophagus | Formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy |
| King Khufu (Cheops) | Earned everlasting fame for being the pharaoh responsible for the Great Pyramid at Giza which he built to serve as his tomb. |
| The Great pyramid | Largest of the 3 pyrimds at Giza; built by King Khufu. |
| King Khufu's Boat | Discovered in 1952 buried under the Great Pyramid |
| Great Sphinx | one of the largest and oldest statues in the world |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian picture writing |
| The Rosetta Stone | A stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek) using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek.) |
| Hyksos | Invaded Egypt; she ruled Egypt as king not queen; Sculptures and masks show her with a false beard. |
| Akhenaten (Amenhotep) | Rejected the traditional religion in favor of worshiping the Aten, or sun disc, after whom he renamed himself. |
| King Tut (Tutankhamen) | 17 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers. |
| Papyrus | Reed like plant that grows on the Nile River Ancient Egyptians used to write on |
| Cultural diffusion | The spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture |
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