Vocabulary
Fertile crescent
Home to some of the earliest human civilizations
Diffusion
The spreading of something more widely
Pyramid
a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point
Polytheistic
Belief in many god's
Mesopotamia
Site of several ancient civilizations
Polytheism
the belief in or worship of more than one god
Mummification
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved
Ziggurat
Summerians believed that goddess owned the cities
City state
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
Empire
an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress
Hieroglyphics
writing consisting of hieroglyphs
Theocracy
a government by divine authority
Dynasty
A line of hereditary rulers of a country
Hammurabi
Hammurabi was the sixth king of the First Babylonian dynasty of the Amorite tribe
Papyrus
a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface
Cultural
Relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society
Pharohs
a ruler in ancient Egypt
Subcontinent
a large landmass smaller than a continent