Chapter 2 Sect. 1 and 2 Flashcards
An arc of rich farmland in Southwest Asia, between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranian Sea.
Fertile Crescent
A plain located in the Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
A city and its surrounding lands acting as an independent political unit
City-State
A series of rulers in a single family
Dynasty
Spreading of ideas or products from one place to another
Cultural diffusion
A belief in many gods
Polytheism
A political unit in which a group of peoples or countries are ruled by a single leader
Empire
A marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river
Delta
Invented a code of laws
Hammurabi
A ruler who united upper and lower Egypt
Narmer
A king of ancient Egypt, considered as a god as well as a political and military leader
Pharaoh
A government ruled by religious authority
Theocracy
A massive structure with a triangle base and four triangular sides that were built in Egypt as burial places for old kingdom rulers
Pyramid
A process of embalming and dying corpses to prevent them from decaying
Mummification
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
Hieroglyphics
A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by Egyptians to make paper-like material to write on
Papyrus
