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53 Cards in this Set
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Polytheism |
belief in more than one god |
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necropolis |
city of the dead |
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vizier |
advisor to the pharaoh |
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irrigation |
getting water from the source to the fields |
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paleolithic age |
old stone age |
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neolithic age |
new stone age |
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farming and domestication of animals |
neolithic revolution occurred when man learned these two skills |
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B.C.E |
before common era; |
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C.E. |
common era |
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Fossils |
bones that archaeologists find |
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artifact |
man-made object |
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difference between history and pre-history |
pre-history is before written records |
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nomads |
in the paleolithic era, people wandered from place to place in search of food |
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monotheism |
ahkenaton was important because he tried to get the egyptians to worship one god. this is called: |
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scribe |
one who could read and write in ancient egypt |
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Hatshepsut |
first female ruler/pharaoh |
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hieroglyphics |
egyptian writing system |
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natural barriers(deserts and cataracts) |
helped protect from invasion |
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cataracts |
rocky stretches of the river with falls and rapids |
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Worlds four oceans |
Pacific, atlantic, arctic, indian |
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seven continents |
North america, south america, asia, europe, australia, antarcitca, africa |
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hemispheres |
two halves of the earth |
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bureaucracy |
officials necessary to perform functions of government |
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theocracy |
government ruled by religious figures |
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latitude |
running east and west |
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upper and lower egypt |
menes united the two kingdoms |
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papyrus |
what the egyptians wrote on |
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dynasty |
ruled by many generations of the same family |
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delta |
triangular shaped mouth of river where heavy silt deposits are |
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inundation |
annual flooding of the nile |
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tutenkhamen |
only tomb found intact and undisrurbed |
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the rosetta stone |
we can translate hieroglyphics because of this discovery |
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natron |
was used to dry out bodies in mummification process |
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Importance of Mummification |
the body had to be recognizable to the ka for eternal life |
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Three Kingdoms |
Old, Middle, New |
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hyksos |
able to conquer and rule egypt because of their superior weaponry |
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culture |
a people's language, customs, religion, food, games |
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dialect |
different versions of the same language |
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DNA |
genetic trail in people's blood |
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Markers |
mutations in DNA |
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Equator |
divides the globe into upper and lower halves |
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surplus |
in the neolithic age, farmers were able to grow more food than they needed |
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Artisan |
skilled craftsman |
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cultural diffusion |
when the culture of one group of people is shared with another whether by trade, war, or travel |
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When we observe that people were buried with tools, weapons, and other valuable items we can tell, |
they believed in an afterlife that was similar to the current life |
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fibula |
key to understanding gender in a archaeological project |
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traditional economy |
when people make economic decisions like they have always customarily done they have a... |
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Upper Egypt was below(south of) lower egypt because... |
nile flows north to south so "downstream" is the north |
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nubians |
semi-nomadic people living south of egypt |
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Egypt was "gift of the nile" because |
without it, they couldn't live there |
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why was the nile unique |
flooding was predictable, and it provided the silt to plant in and out of the water |
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characteristics of a civilization are? |
developed cities, organized gov., formalized religion, specialization of labor, social classes, record keeping and writing, arts |
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ramses |
was the most admired pharaoh, married hittites princess to make peace with the hyksos |
