First civilizations
What are government officials?
People who first ruled Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumerians?
The river that crosses the Sahara Desert in Egypt
What is the Nile?
Type of religion in Ancient Egypt (how many gods)
What is polytheistic?
Material used for building in Ancient Egypt
What is stone?
Oldest surviving set of written laws
What is the Code of Hammurabi
Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is land between rivers?
The ruler of Egypt who was considered a god
What is the pharaoh?
Name of the departed soul of a dead person that travelled to the underworld
What is the Ka?
Buildings with burial chambers or rooms where mummies were buried
What are tombs?
First civilizations established in river valleys.
What are fluvial civilzations?
Person that governed city states
What is the king-high priest?
People who have discovered things about Egyptian history and culture
What are Egyptologists?
God of agriculture and resurrection that judged the departed souls by weighing their hearts
Who is Osiris?
Large, triangular structure that contained tombs underneath
What are pyramids?
Artificial channels and walls to contain water.
What are canals and dykes?
Two structures that are key features of Mesopotamian architecture
What are semicircular arches and vaults?
Plant used to make linen fabric
What is flax?
Event that the Egyptian calendar was based on
What is the flooding of the Nile?
Detail on sarcophagus used to symbolize the rays of the sun
What is a headress?
What is a hierarchical society?
What was the main sacred building in Mesopotamian society?
What is the ziggurat?
Only group of children that were able to learn to read and write
What are privileged social groups?
Jars in which Egyptians placed the intestines of a mummy
What are canopic jars?
The most important characteristic of Egpytian painting, in which the limbs and face are drawn from the side but the torso and one eye is drawn from the front view
What is the canon of profile?