sections 1 and 2 Flashcards
study terms
curved shaped area with richness
fertile crescent
Mesopotamia lands facing the Mediterranean sea and plain
Mesopotamia
each city and the surrounding lands it controlled
city-state
A series of rulers from single family
dynasty
the process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another
Cultural diffusion
belief in more than one god
polytheism
brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler
empire
A rule who made the code of laws
Hammurabi
the nile delta region
delta
early king
Narmer
egyptain god-kings
pharaohs
government in which rule based on religious authority
theocracy
place after death, immense structures
pyramid
embalming and drying the corpse that are preserved
mummification
more flexible writing system
hieroglyphics