chapter 2 section 1 and 2 Flashcards
fertile crescent
Includes the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia. Is a desert climate and landscape between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea.
Mesopotamia
greek for “land between rivers”
city-state
functioned much as an independent country does today. Each city and the surrounding land controlled the city-state.
dynasty
a series of rulers who would pass down the their power to their sons then their sons and again and again.
cultural diffusion
a new idea or product spreads through one culture to another.
polytheism
many different gods controlled the various forces of nature, the belief in one or more god.
empire
brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.
hammurabli
ruler of the Babylonian empire, known for his code of laws which helped to unify the diverse groups within his empire. most common an eye for an eye.
delta
begins 100 miles before the NIle river enters the Mediterranean, it is a broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river.
Narmer
created a double crown for the red and white crowns. Which brought together the upper and lower kingdoms. He established the first Egyptian dynasty.
Pharaohs
Egyptian god- kings were though to be almost as splendid and powerful as the gods of the heavens.
Theocracy
type of government in which rule is based on religious authority
pyramid
the resting place after death was an immense structure. the old kingdom was the great age of pyramid building.
mummification
royal and elite Egyptians were mummified, involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
heiroglyphics
simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing in Egypt, came from Sumerian writing in the earliest hieroglyphic.
