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| 7479016770 | absolutism | A form of government, usually hereditary monarchy, in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power. Practiced as far back as the Pharaohs, this form of government often claims its power comes from a deity/god, and usually is maintained thru force against its population. (The American Founding Fathers installed the 2nd Amendment and the right to keep & bear arms to counter this very recurring and age old issue). |  | 0 |
| 7479022290 | Akhenaten | Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk. |  | 1 |
| 7479029273 | Bantu | he people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and iron. |  | 2 |
| 7479035147 | Bantu languages | A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa. 88. 3 Bantu migration The movement of the Bantu |  | 3 |
| 7479041282 | Bantu migration | The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 |  | 4 |
| 7479044300 | desertification | The process by which fertile land becomes desert,typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or agriculture. |  | 5 |
| 7479052259 | Egypt | This early empire has its home along Africa's longest river, with a detailed form of writing known as hieroglyphics. It's society was ruled by a pharaoh considered the incarnation of the sun god who controlled access to the Nile; they had a 365-day calendar, they were polytheistic and worshiped the dead |  | 6 |
| 7479076841 | Herodotus | Greek Historian, considered the father of History. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands. |  | 7 |
| 7479093813 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian system of writing in which pictorial symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. |  | 8 |
| 7479127365 | ideograms | A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese) |  | 9 |
| 7479134309 | ma'at | Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe. Reflecting the ancient Egyptians' belief in an essentially beneficent world, the divine ruler was the earthly guarantor of this order. |  | 10 |
| 7479137466 | Memphis | The capital of Old Kingdom Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta. Early rulers were interred in the nearby pyramids. | 11 | |
| 7479140470 | Menes | The king who unifed Egypt. | 12 | |
| 7479144319 | monotheism | Belief in a single divine entity. The Israelite worship of Yahweh developed into an exclusive belief in one god, and this concept passed into Christianity and Islam. |  | 13 |
| 7479157407 | Thebes | Capital city of Egypt and home of the ruling dynasties during the Middle and New Kingdoms. Amon, patron deity of Thebes, became one of the chief gods of Egypt. Monarchs were buried across the river in the Valley of the Kings. | 14 | |
| 7479160996 | tribute system | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. |  | 15 |
| 7479165055 | Nile River | The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around. |  | 16 |
| 7479175342 | Nubians | The people in Eastern Africa south of Egypt who were rivals of the ancient Egyptians and known for their flourishing kingdom between the 400s BC and the 400s CE. They speak their own language and were known by the Egyptians for their darker skin. |  | 17 |
| 7479180450 | Pharaohs | Pharaohs were the absolute (having all power) rulers of Egypt, believed by their people to be descended of the sun god. |  | 18 |
| 7479184937 | pyramids | The Sumerians, Egyptians, and Americans all built different types of this kind of structure because they all had a heavily centralized governments with emperors who were seen as closely tied to religion or were even seen as gods. |  | 19 |
| 7479189053 | Ramesses II | A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt. |  | 20 |
| 7479192876 | sub-Saharan Africa | Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara. |  | 21 |
