Section Eight Flashcards
Monotheistic
Believing in only one God
Osiris
God of the Nile
Set
Osiris’s evil brother. Murdered Osiris
Isis
Osiris’s wife
Amon-Re
Egyptian sun god
Solomon
David’s son. Built the temple in Jerusalem
David
Defeated the Philistines and forged alliances to make the Hebrews supreme in Palestine
Moses
Gave the Hebrews the Ten Commandments, a set of moral and religious laws
Mummification
Egyptian process of preserving the body after death. Organs in jars
Theocracy
A form of government in which priests serve as kings
Houses of eternity
Another name for the pyramids
Autocratic monarchy
Government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others
Polytheistic
Believing in more than one God
Tolerance
The ability or willingness to put up with something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.
Laws
Set of rules