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Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC - longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East
Hammurabi’s Code
writing system used in ancient Egypt to record the Egyptian language
Hieroglyphics
Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II who procliamed herself as pharoah after his death - she wore the pharonic beard and dressed as a male phraoah during her reign...
Hatshepsut
the man, according to ancient Jewish belief, who founded Jewish belief
Abraham
Descendants of the man Abraham, who crafted a covenant with God to worship him in exchange for land and a kingdom... they take their name from his grandson, Israel...
Israelites
The alphabet that influenced many written languages including the Romans, the Greece, and Hebrew...
Phoenician alphabet
Book of ancient Egyptian spells to protect against Osiris, god of the dead, with some spells that called for the protection of Osiris...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
one of the greatest pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, was known as a good leader and had a passion for building monuments and temples...
Rameses II
Hebrew prophet, teacher, and leader who, in the 13th century bce, delivered his people from Egyptian slavery...
Moses
National leader and military commander in ancient Israel, he finished what God started through Moses leading the liberated Israelites to settle in the Canaanite land God had promised them...
Joshua
Southern Egypt is also called...
Upper Egypt
a writing material and other artifact made from the papyrus plant, that was used in ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean region for over 3,000 years
Papyrus
Early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship...
Akhenaton
He was king of the Israelites after Saul, he defeated the Philistines killing their strongest warrior Goliath...
David
One of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...
Jerusalem
a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt
Pyramids
The ancient Egyptian method of preserving a dead body by removing the organs, drying it, and wrapping it in strips of linen to insure that the soul can travel to the afterlife...
Mummification
King of ancient Egypt (reigned c. 1333–24 bce), known chiefly for his intact tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922...
Tutankhamun
King David's son who led the Israelites, brought a long period of peace, commissioned the building of the first temple...
Solomon
Groups of Jews living outside the Jewish homeland...
Diaspora
12 months of 30 days each, with an additional 5 days added at the end of the year, divided into three seasons of 120 days each, and divided their days into 24 hours, with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night
Egyptian Calendar
First king of Egypt who peacefully unified the country at the beginning of the First Dynastic Period...
Narmer
A series of large-scale revolts by Jewish subjects against the Roman Empire between 66 and 135 CE...
Jewish-Roman Wars
Teachings that Moses received from God; later became the first five books of the Hebrew Bible...
Torah
Northern Egypt is also called...
Lower Egypt