World Geo & History Egypt and Tigris Euphrates, Ch 1 & 2
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marn18 Plus on May 17, 2012
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Egypt and Tigris Euphrates Civilization
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Chapter 1 and 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Human-made material object, for example, a tool, a weapon, or a coin | artifact |
| Scientist who excavates ancient settlements and studies artifacts | archaeologist |
| "The Gift of the Nile" | Annual flooding |
| What humans acquire by living together- the way we think about and do things | culture |
| Scientist who studies the skeletal remains of early humans | anthropologist |
| Time when EArth had extremely cold weather | ice age |
| Egyptian rulers title | Pharaoh |
| Record of events since people first developed writing | history |
| Group of people traveling together for safety | caravan traders |
| Pictures represent an idea | ideogram |
| Egyptian paper made of reed plant | papyrus |
| Long period of time before people kept written records | prehistory |
| Form of government developed by the Sumerians; it consisted of a city and its surrounding land | city/state |
| Highly organized society with surplus food, government and division of labor | civilization |
| pictures stands for a sound | phonogram |
| technique that allows the age of organic (from living things) matter to be identified by measuring the rate of radioactive decay | radio carbon dating |
| Sumerian temple built in layers | ziggurats |
| pictures represent an object | pictogram |
| Curved structure over an opening | arch |
| Egyptians form of writing | hieroglyphics |
| Name of the stone the French found in 1798 that had three different languages on it | Rosetta Stone |
| This empire invented the wheel | Sumeria |
| Process of preserving a human body by applying substances to the body | mummification |
| Egyptian god the creator | amenra |
| Land between the Rivers' | mesopotamia |
| This empire conquered the Sumerians and brought a Semitic language into the fertile crescent around 2330 bc | Akkadians |
| Ruler of the Chaldeans that built the Hanging Garden's of BAbylon for his wife, Amytis | Nebuchadnezzar |
| The largest empire in the world before 331 bc | Persia |
| Capital of the Assyrian's empire. This city had a great wall built in front of it | Nineveh |
| Defeated the Egyptians and the Persians around 331 BC | Alexander the Great |
| He deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1821 | Jean Francois Champolion |
| First civilization to use iron weapons | Hittites |
| A list of 282 laws that governed over the Babylonians | code of Hummarabi |
| Egyptian pharaoh that ruled in the 1320s BC whose tom was found completely intact | King Tut |
| Persian ruler that extended their empire into Greece | ... |
| Great Egyptian pharaoh that ruled from 1279-1213 BC that may have been Moses' stepfather | Ramses II |
| belief in many gods | polytheistic... |
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