front 1 cultural diffusion | back 1 The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another |
front 2 river valley | back 2 fertile land surrounding a river |
front 3 Nile River Delta | back 3 marshy triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the Nile River |
front 4 pharaoh | back 4 ruler of ancient Egypt |
front 5 theocracy | back 5 government controlled by religious leaders |
front 6 polytheism | back 6 belief in many Gods |
front 7 silt | back 7 mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks |
front 8 papyrus | back 8 long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds found along the Nile River |
front 9 Hieroglyphics | back 9 An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds |
front 10 mummification | back 10 process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying |
front 11 Menes | back 11 Pharaoh who united upper and lower Egypt |
front 12 Hatshepsut | back 12 First female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade |
front 13 Fertile Cresent | back 13 geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates |
front 14 Code of Hammurabi | back 14 A collection of 282 laws. One of the first (but not THE first) examples of written law in the ancient world |
front 15 Cuneiform | back 15 form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets |
front 16 ziggurat | back 16 rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians |