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WH Unit 2 Part 1
Egypt and Mesopotamia Test Review
Term | Definition |
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Cultural diffusion | The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another |
Mesopotamia | The geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
Tigris and Euphrates | Rivers surrounding Mesopotamia |
Scribes | The people that wrote and kept records |
Hittites | This Mesopotamia group made iron weapons; very strong army! |
Hammurabi's Code | First written set of laws/an eye for an eye! |
Phoenicians | Mesopotamia people who were great ship builders and created modern alphabet! |
Ziggurats | Religious temples in Sumer! |
Cuneiform | Sumerian writing that uses wedge-shaped characters |
Fertile crescent | Crescent-shaped region containing moist and fertile land |
Wheel | Sumerians invented this; helps with transportation! |
Cataracts | Rapids formed caused by rough terrain; waterfalls |
Delta | A triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river |
Nile River | The longest river in the world |
Upper Egypt | Located in the southern section of Egypt |
Lower Egypt | Located in the northern section of Egypt |
Pharaoh | The title used by the rulers of Egypt |
Afterlife | Life after death |
Mummies | Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth; used to protect body in afterlife |
Pyramids | Built in ancient Egypt as tombs for pharaohs |
Black Land | fertile soil on either side of the Nile; the best place to live! |
Red Land | deadly desert on outer sides of the Black Land |
Hieroglyphics | Egypt´s form of writing; one of the first in the world |
Rosetta Stone | same message was written in 3 languages on it; one was Hieroglyphics and this was the key that unlocked the Egyptian language |