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- 1Mesopotamiawhere the first civilization began; name means "land between the rivers"
- 2Fertile Crescentthe region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape; known as the Cradle of Civilization
- 3belief in MANY gods; ancient Sumerians believed in over 3k godspolytheistic (aka polytheism)
- 4Zigguratmassive platform that the Sumerians built their religious temples on
- 5theocracymeans "ruled by god"; describes a govt. where the ruler is thought to be a god ex. Ancient Egypt
- 61st writing system developed by the Sumerians; "wedge-shaped writing"Cuneiform
- 7Hammurabi's Law Code1st 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
- 8describes a society dominated by menpatriarchal
- 9Nile Riverthe longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "the gift of the NIle River"; Egyptians depended on the Nile for everything
- 10inundationthe annual flooding of the Nile River. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud
- 11siltrich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile River
- 12King MenesKing who united Lower & Upper Egypt around 3100 B.C.
- 13DynastyMeans "great house of"; a family of rulers
- 14Pharaohname for an Egyptian King
- 15"ka"ancient Egyptians thought that when someone died the "ka", of the life force, left the physical body; The "ka" could drink
- 16"ba"the "ba" was the part of the soul that embarked on a journey to follow the gods; the symbol of the "ba" was usually a shown as a bird with a human head and bird wings
- 17very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved.mummification
- 18canopic jarscontainers used to hold the internal organs
- 19outer layer of protection for a royal mummysarcophagus
- 20King Khufuresponsible for the great pyramids at Giza
- 21Great Pyramid3 pyramids made as tombstones/resurrection mechanism for the Pharaohs
- 22King Khufu's BoatHis ship to carry him to party in the clouds with Ra
- 23Great Sphinxone of the largest and oldest statues in the world. Archaeologists believe that it was carved around 2500 BC and that the head is meant to be the likeness of the Pharaoh Khafre
- 24Egyptian picture writinghieroglyphics
- 25a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptians and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek).The Rosetta Stone
- 26Hyksosinvaded Egypt; and ruled 200 years; introduced the horse drawn chariot
- 27Hatshepsutfirst great woman ruler of Egypt; ruled as a king, NOT queen. She wears a false beard in many of her sculptures.
- 28Akhenatenmade everyone believe in one god, Aton.
- 2917 year old boy pharaoh whose tomb survived untouched by grave robbers' more than 3000 artifacts discovered in his tombKing Tut
- 30Ramses the Great (the second)reigned 67 years and fathered 200 children; defeated the Hittites, the other superpower of ancient times; he declared himself as a god
- 31reed like plants that grew along the Nile River's bank; made to write on like paper, hence "Pap" as in "pap"erPapyrus
- 32Cultural Diffusionthe spreading of ideas from one culture to another culture
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