Unit 1 terms January 14, 2010

Unit 1 Terms

1. The Fertile Crescent is a crescent shaped region that once provided/provides fertile soil to the land around it.

2. Mesopotamia is the land between rivers and the beginning of civilization; writing, agriculture, and cities.

3. City- states are independent countries with their own leaders, rules and regulations.

4. If your father and his fathers before him were to have ruled your country and now it’s your turn, you would belong to a dynasty, a sequence of rulers belonging to the same family.

5. Cultural diffusion is the spreading of a cultural trait, like religion and agriculture.

6. Polytheism basically means that you believe in more than one god.

7. Empires rule many countries over one single authority. For example, the British Empire, or The Chinese Emperor.

8. Hammurabi is the ruler who established the greatness of Babylon, and created the first ever written/recorded set of laws called Hammurabi’s Code.

9. A, delta is where a river slits into two parts, making it seem like triangle before emptying into to ocean.

10. Namar

11. Pharaoh’s were what the called the leaders in Egypt.

12. Ruling according to what the God’s “say/tell you” is theocracy.

13. Pyramids were built in honor of the Royal that died, as not only a tomb, but is where they would place many items of gold or importance so that their spirit can use them in the afterlife.

14. Mummification is where when someone of importance died, they would di-organ the body and wrap in clothe and a liquid to preserve the body.

15. Hieroglyphics were pictures created by the Egyptians to represent motions, sounds, and eventual record history.

16. The first paper like material was invented by the Egyptians with Papyrus Reed. Light weight, durable, and easy to carry round for thousands of years.

17. Hyksos were a group of nomadic invaders from southwest Asia who ruled Egypt from 1640 to 1570 B.C.

18. New Kingdom was the time after the rule of the Hyksos, the time of the female pharaoh’s, Ramses the great, and Tutankhamen the boy king.

19. Queen Hatshepsut was longest of all female rulers in Egypt, and her funerary temple still stands as a tribute to her incredible rise to power.

20. Thatmose III is considered to be one of Egypt’s greatest warrior heroes.

21. Nubia is a desert land divided by the Nile River.

22. Ramses II was the third ruler of the 19th dynasty.

23. Kush is an ancient Nubian kingdom whose rulers controlled Egypt between 2000 and 1000 B.C.