| A | B |
|---|
| Hatshepsut | First female pharaoh of Egypt |
| Akhenaton | pharaoh who founded a controversial religion |
| Thutmose III | conquered an empire for Egypt |
| Ahmose | pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of Egypt |
| Tutankhamen | boy pharaoh who is most known for the discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 |
| theocracy | government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader |
| empire | many territories led by a single ruler |
| bureaucracy | a group of government officials who carry out the responsibilities delegated by a king |
| dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| monarchy | government ruled by a single person such as a king or queen |
| Hammurabi | his greatest achievement was to make justice appear in the land through his law code |
| Sargon I | first empire builder in Mesopotamia |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian system of writing |
| cuneiform | Sumerian system of writing |
| city-state | consisted of the city itself and the land surrounding it |
| Mesopotamia | "land between the rivers" |
| ziggurat | a Sumerian temple which supported a shrine on top |
