Chapter 2

Question 1

Fertile Crescent

Answer 1

An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 2

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Answer 2

rivers of the Fertile Crescent that frame the Mesopotamian Civilization

Question 3

Mesopotamia

Answer 3

region of Fertile Crescent where the first civilization arose and first empire arose

Question 4

City-state

Answer 4

A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.

Question 5

Dynasty

Answer 5

A series of rulers from a single family

Question 6

Cultural diffusion

Answer 6

The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.

Question 7

Polytheism

Answer 7

A belief in many gods.

Question 8

Empire

Answer 8

A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.

Question 9

Hammurabi

Answer 9

Babylonian emperor who created the first written set of laws

Question 10

Babylon

Answer 10

city in Mesopotamia that became an important capital

Question 11

Delta

Answer 11

A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.

Question 12

Narmer (Menes)

Answer 12

pharaoh given credit for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt

Question 13

Pharaoh

Answer 13

A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political and military leader.

Question 14

Theocracy

Answer 14

A government in which the ruler is views as a divine figure.

Question 15

Pyramid

Answer 15

A massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were built in Egypt as burial places for Old Kingdom pharaohs.

Question 16

Mummification

Answer 16

A process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying.

Question 17

Papyrus

Answer 17

A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material for writing on.

Question 18

Nile River

Answer 18

river whose regular flood cycles helped build Egyptian civilization