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Babylon | In Mesopotamia, the civilizations of Sumer and Akkad were replaced by the civilization of _________. |
Exodus | The time when Moses led the Hebrew people out of Egypt is known as the ___________. |
nationalism | wanting to be free of all foreign influences |
Hatshepsut | the queen of Egypt who declared herself pharoah |
successful | Hatshepsut's rule is considered one of the most ____________ in Egypt's history. |
removed | Thutmose III had Hatshepsut's name ________ from all monuments. |
satellite | a country or territory that is dominated by another country |
subsidies | Government _________ helped support writers during the New Kingdom in Egypt. |
kohl | a black powder used by Egyptian women to make their eyes look bigger |
basket | Moses's mother placed him in a ________, and hid it among the papyrus reeds by the bank of the Nile River. |
theocracy | Because Egypt's rulers claimed to be gods, Egypt's government was a ___________. |
heretic | someone who disagrees with an officially accepted religion |
Akhenaton | the new name of the pharoah who tried to change Egypt's religion |
Hapiru | Many historians believe that these people were the Hebrews. |
sarcophagus | a stone coffin |
Tutankhamen | This pharoah's tomb was discovered by Lord Carnavaron in 1922. |
Hammurabi | This king established the Old Babylonian Kingdom in 1760 B.C.. |
Marduk | the chief god of the Babylonians |
Kings | Hammurabi believed he had the Divine RIght of ______, and could do anything that his god Marduk wanted him to do. |
irrigation | Hammurabi had a network of ___________ canals built to provide water for farmland. |
Code | The set of laws that Hammurabi wrote is known as the _______ of Hammurabi. |
dowry | a sum of money that a bride brought to her husband |
Hittites | After Hammurabi died, this tribe conquered Babylon. |
Crete | The Minoan culture began on this island. |
Greece | The Mycenaean culture developed in the area of this present-day country. |
Balkan | Greece is part of this peninsula. |
mountains | The _________ of Greece isolated the city-states from each other. |
minos | the Minoan title for their king |
Knossos | a beautiiful Minoan palace in Crete that resembled a Maze |
citadel | a fortress on top of a high cliff for protection |
acropolis | a high, protected place |
Iliad | Homer's epic of how the Greeks destroyed the city of Troy |
Bering | People were able to cross from Asia to Alaska over the ________ Straight. |
Danger | People who lived in ________ Cave developed a shallow milling stone for grinding seeds into flour. |
Poverty | _________ Point is thought to be the oldest North American civilization. |
Huaca | The people of ________ Prieta were artistic weavers. |