| A | B |
|---|
| Silt | soil, Eqyptians eagerly awaited and annual flood |
| Cataract | waterfall (Upper Eygpt) |
| Delta | where the nile river empties into the Medit. (lower Egypt) |
| Dynasty | power passed on to ruling family |
| Pharaoh | Egyptian rulers during Old Kingdom |
| Vizier | chief minister that supervised business of gov. was one a pharaoh depended on. |
| Three main periods of ancient Egypt | Old, Middle, and New Kingdom |
| Old Kingdom major achievement | Ptah-hotep trained young officials on how to avoid errors |
| Middle Kingdom major achievement | land drained from farming |
| New Kingdom major achievement | first peace treaty signed by Egyptians and Hittities |
| Egypts affect with the Nubians | Trade was made than Egypt conquered Nubia |
| Mummification | preservation of the dead |
| Hieroglyphics | picture witing used to keep important record |
| Ideogram | pictures that symbolized an idea or action |
| Demotic | simpler form of writing for everyday use |
| Papyrus | paperlike writing material |
| Decipher | decode |
| Pharaoh, priest, gods nobles | The order of Egyptian society |
| Advance Egyptians made in learning and the arts | Learned scribes, temple scribes, statues, paintings poems and practical geometry |
| Belief in the afterlife and relied on the Bood of the Dead | how religious beliefs shaped the lives of Egyptians |
| Osiris the God of the Nile | Important god the the ancient Egyptians |
| Three achievements of Ancient Egyptians in the arts of learning | advances in Medicine and science, painting and sculpture, literature |
| Heirarchy | a system of rank |
| Ziggurat | a pyramid temple that soared toweard the heavens was built by each city |
| Cuneiform | Sumerians invented earliest known form of writing involving a reed pen to make wedge-shape marks on clay tablets. |
| Codify | arrange a set down in writing that all laws would govern Hammurabi's Code |
| Criminal Law | branch of law that deals with offenses against others such as robbery |
| Civil Law | branch of law deals with private rights and matters, such as business contracts |
| Tolerance | acceptanceof people customs and religious traditions they conquered by the Persians |
| Satrap | Persian empire divided into provinces headed by a governor |
| Barter Economy | exchanging one oset of goods or services for another |
| Money economy | goods and services are paid for through the exchange of some token of an agreed value |
| Colony | a territory settled and ruled by people from another land |
| Alphabet | contains letters that represent spoken sounds by the Phoenicians |
| monotheistic | Israelites believed in one true God |
| covenant | Israelites believed that God made a binding agreement with Abraham |
| patriarchal | Israelite society were fathers and husbands that held great legal and moral authority |
| sabbath | a holy day for rest adn worship (the first 4 commandments) |
| prophet | spiritual leaders emerged to interpret God's will such as Isaiah and Jeremiah |
| ethics | prophets preached strong code or morals standards of behavior |
| diaspora | Jews living their homeland, scattering of people |
