World History Quiz 1
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10 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cataract | a large waterfall |
| silt | rich soil carried by flooding waters |
| hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds; "sacred carvings" |
| 4 step process in creating a language | 1. pictogram- picture representing a thing 2. ideagram- picture representing an idea 3. phonogram- depicts a syllabyl or sound 4. alphabet- vowel or contanent |
| 4 great river valley civilization | 1. Nile River (Egypt) 2. Tigris/Euphrates (Iraq) 3, Indus (India) 4. Yellow/Huang Ho (China) |
| autocrat | one ruler has all power (pharaoh was one) |
| Rosetta Stone | CONTAINED: Hieroglyphics, Demotic writing, Greek |
| Latitude | distance North or South of the Equator; runs east to west |
| Longitude | distance East or West of the Prime Meridian; runs north to south |
| Herodotus | Greek historian; "Egypt is wholly the gift of the Nile |
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