Chap 1 sec 1 Flashcards
region with rich land and curve shape
Fertile Crescent
Land between tigris and Euphrates rivers
Mesopotamia
a city and its surrounding land acting as an individual country
city state
new idea or product spreads from one culture to another
Cultural Diffusion
Belief in more than one god
Polytheism
several peoples, nations or individual states under control of one ruler
empire
King who established Hammurabis code
Hammurabi
king who united upper and lower Egypt
Narmer
Egyptian god Kings
Pharaohs
government where rule is based on religious authority
theocracy
Sacred carvings, flexible writing system
hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing surface grew in a marsh
papyrus
way to preserve elite and official peoples bodies (Egyptian)
mummification
resting place for Egyptian kings
pyramid
broad marshy triangle land area formed by silt deposits
delta