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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt review
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| cuneiform | Sumerian form of writing |
| Hammurabi | Babylon's greatest king |
| polytheistic | believing in many gods |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Hammurabi's code | harsh Babylonian laws |
| irrigation system | system of ditches used to water farm land |
| city-state | city and the farmland around it |
| Nile | river in Egypt |
| pharaoh | Egyptian ruler |
| embalm | preserving a dead body |
| pyramid | tomb for a pharaoh |
| hieroglyphics | Ancient Egyptian system of writing |
| papyrus | plant used to make paper |
| scribe | a person who recorded information by writing |
| Rosetta Stone | stone tablet that cracked the code of hieroglyphics |
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8th Grade English Language Arts |
New Caney Middle School |
| Porter, TX |
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