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The land area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; part of the Fertile Crescent.
Mesopotamia
Worship of many gods
polytheism
Name given to Egyptian rulers. Literally, "great house," referring to the magnificent palace in Memphis, Egypt's capital.
Pharaoh
Migrations of three culture streams away from the Ararat and Babylonian regions.
Dispersion
Any simple object showing a person's workmanship
artifact
Every city was an independent state with its own ruler. They often warred against one another.
City - States
Aryan language of beautiful sounds and descriptive words and terms. Classical language of India.
sanskrit
Hieroglyphics
System of Egyptian writing developed by the priests to keep records. Pictures represented sounds and syllables. Literally, "sacred carvings."
Early governments responsible for water distribution
Nomes
The belief that the rocks on earth were changed by a worldwide catastrophe
Catastrophism
A written language made of pictures and symbols.
pictograph
Written works which give Aryan ideas on religion, life, death, philosophy, and music. Literal meaning - knowledge.
vedas
Papyrus paper
World's first writing paper; developed by Egyptians from reeds that grew along the Nile River banks.
An oval area inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphics indicating the name of the country's ruler
Cartouche
A word that means "approximately" or "about"
circa
A written language made of pictures and symbols.
Cuneiform
Etesian winds
Breezes pulled in from the Mediterranean Sea which enabled merchants to travel the Nile easily.
Sphinx
Example of Egyptian art; huge lion having a man's head - symbol of strength.
A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession
scribe
Creationists believe that man was ______ right from the start.
civilized
Temple tower with a platform built upon another platform, each one a little smaller than the last. May have been patterned after the Tower of Babel.
ziggurat
Dynasty
The continuous rule of a country by the same family.
Fertile Crescent
Great curving plain in the Middle East with enough water to allow successful farming. Stretched upward from Egypt along the Mediterranean, up and back down through Mesopotamia.
Landing place of the Ark, located on the eastern border of modern-day Turkey.
Mount Ararat
Early nations and tribes from all parts of the world have tales of a _________ at the beginning of their histories.
flood