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| The Nile River | the longest river in the world- located in Africa |
| hieroglyphics | writing developed by the Nile River people using pictures or symbols to represent words and sounds |
| papyrus | a kind of paper made by the Egyptians from the stem of the papyrus plant |
| dynasty | a family of rulers |
| pharaohs | dynastic religious and polictical rulers |
| empires | a form of government inwhich an individual or single people ruled over many other peoples and their territories |
| polytheism | a believe in many gods |
| monotheism | a believe in one god |
| scribes | an elite group of educated people |
| mummification | a process of preserving a dead body |
| cuneiforms | a form of Sumerian writing developed from pictographic writing |
| ziggurats | Sumerian temples |
| city-state | a form of community developed by the Sumerians which included the town or city and the surrounding area |
| Sargon | a powerful Akkadian king |
| Hammurabi | a strong ruler of Babylon who created a law code |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a Babylonian ruler who conquered most of the Fertile Cresent |
| Cyrus | a great Perisan ruler who took Babylon |
| Zoroaster | a great Perisan phophet who introduced the concept of heaven and hell |
| barter | the exchange of one good or service for another |
| Hebrews | ancestors of modern Jews |
| Abraham | the founder of the Hebrew people |
| Moses | a man who lead the enslaved Hebrew out of Egypt |
| covenants | a solemn agreement entered into by the Hebrews when they agreed to follow the Ten Commandments |
| Exodus | the escape of the Hebrews out of Egypt |
| David | the king of Eygpt who succeeded Saul |
| Solomon | King David's son who succeeded him as King of Egypt |
| Torah | the first five books of the Bible |
