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Ancient Mesopotamia & Egypt

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- 1name means "land between the rivers"; where the 1st civilizations began; present day Iraq & SyriaMesopotamia

- 2the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter- moon shape; Known as the Cradle of CivilizationFertile Crescent
- 3belief in MANY gods; Ancient Sumerians built their religious temples onPolytheistic (aka polytheism)

- 4means "rule by god"; describes a govt. where the ruler is thought to be a God ex. Ancient EgyptTheocracy
- 51st writing system developed by the Sumerians; "wedge-shape writing"Cuneiform

- 61st written laws; given to people of Ancient Babylon by King Hammurabi; very strict laws based on principle of an eye, a tooth for a toothHammurabi's Law Code

- 7describes a society dominated by menPatriarchal
- 8the longest river in the world; Egypt is often called "the gift of the Nile River"; Egyptians depended on the Nile for everythingNile River

- 9the annual flooding of the Nile River. The flood river leave behind rich fertile mud.Inundation

- 10rich black mud left behind from the flooding of the Nile RiverSilt
- 11King who united Lower & Upper Egypt around 3100 BCKing Menes

- 12means "great house of"; a family of rulersDynasty
- 13name for Egyptian kingPharaoh

- 14ancient 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"
- 15the symbol of the Ba is often shown as a bird with a human head and wings"Ba"

- 16it was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the human body was preserved. The process lasted up to 70 days.Mummification

- 17containers 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 HorusCanopic Jars
- 18—Sarcophagus
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