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Greek Historian wrote about ancient Egypt
Herodotus
"Land between the rivers"
Mesopotamia
Directed God's children out of Egypt
Moses
Longest River in the World
Nile River
Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Jean Francis Champollion
Female Pharaoh of Egypt
Hatshepsut
"In the year of our Lord"
A.D.
"Before the birth of Christ"
B.C.
Ruler united all of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi
"That makes fruitful"
Euphrates
Sumerians' greatest accomplishment
writing
Egyptian Empire reached its greatest extent under this Pharaoh
Thutmose III
Patriarchs of Israel
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Used by Egyptians to preserve bodies
Mummification
The land that God promised to Israel
Canaan
Father of the nation of Israel
Abraham
Where Noah and his family settled
Shinar
Structure of the Egyptian society and government
Bureaucracy
Greatest gift the Nile River gave the Egyptians
Fertile soil
Led in Building the Tower of Babel
Nimrod
The Egyptians descended from...
Mizraim
The two things that could describe the Sumerian religion
Humanistic and Polytheistic
Organized group of people appointed by a ruler to help him govern
Bureaucracy
Hammurabi was best known for...
Laws
The way of life of a group of people
Culture
A wedge-shaped writing
Cuneiform
Dispersion
The ruler by one city or people over other cities or peoples
Empire
A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit.
Nation
Study of the relics and ruins of ancient cultures
Archaeology
A group of people living in its own land with its own government
Nation-state
A payment from one nation to another
Tribute
First used the wheel
Sumerians
Greatest turning point in History
Birth of Christ
First Pharaoh of all Egypt
Menes
Was sold into slavery and became a chief assistant to an Egyptian king
Joseph
Means "Arrow"
Tigris
Means "Beginning" or "Origin"
Genesis
Established to teach the sanctity of life
Capital Punishment
God's punishment for man's wickedness in Genesis
The Flood
The rebellion at the Tower of Babel resulted in the loss of this
Common language
The system of dividing time is based on the numbering system of what group of people
Sumerians