| A | B |
|---|
| vizier | responsible to pharoah & in charge of bureaucracy |
| pharaoh | title of Egyptain monarch, means great house or palace |
| monarchy | ruled by king or queen |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| dynasty | a family of rulers whose right is passed on within the family |
| patriarchal | dominated by men |
| satrap | each providence had one, means governer |
| empire | a large political unit or state usually under a single ruler |
| theocracy | gods ruled the cities |
| ziggurat | a massive step tower which had a temple built on it |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptain writing, means "priest carvings" or "sacred writing" used pictures and abstract forms, very complex |
| city-state | a city with political and ecconomic control over the surrounding countryside |
| mummification | process of slowing drying a dead boy to prevent from rotting |
| satrapy | providence in Persia |
| monothestic | belief in one God |
| cuneiform | wedge shaped system of writing |
| hieratic script | simplified form of hieroglyphics, used for business transactions, record keeping, general needs of daily life |
| bureaucracy | an administrative organization with officials and regular procedures |
| pastoral nomads | nomads who domesticated animals for food and clothing |
| Code of Hammurabi | collections of laws devised in ancient Babylon |
| fertile crescent | arc of rich soil between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf |
| Phoenicians | traders who lived in a narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean coast |
| Zoroastrianism | Persian religion |
| Sumerians | creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization |
| empire | a large political unit or state, usually under a single leader, that controls many peoples or territories |
| pyramids | built in the time of the Old Kingdom |
| Assyrians | established on the world's first libraries |
| "10 lost tribes" | Kingdom of Israel |
