Early Civilizations Flashcards
Small Kingdoms under the unrestricted rule of its king/queen
Monarchies
Line of rulers from one family
Dynasty
Old Kingdom
From 2,700 b.c. To 2,200 b.c
Theocracy
Same person is both the religious leader, and political leader.
King delegated many responsibilities to a group of government officials when we could not carry out all of duties himself.
Bureaucracy
The Middle Kingdom
From 2,050 b,c to 1,800 b.c
The New Kingdom
Pharaohs.
Life in accent Egyptian was divided into how many social classes?
Three social classes, which Egyptians lived in the Nile valley and Nile delta
Worship of many deities (gods)
Polytheism
Where was The Nile Valley developed?
In the bank of the Nile in North Eastern Africa
Which river is the world’s longest river?
The Nile river
How many dynasties ruled Egypt from 3,000b.c to 332b.c?
30 dynasties ruled Egypt
Rosetta Stone
Egyptian hieroglyphics with the same story written below in Greek, making us able to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics
What region did the Fertile Crescent include?
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. People to chose to settle in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates river.
The Sumerian Civilization settled where ?
Settled by the lower part of the Tigris and Euphrates river valley