AP World history Flashcards
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| 210850530 | Aryan | a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European | |
| 210850531 | gladiators | trained fighters, usually slaves, who fought in arenas as entertainment | |
| 210850532 | loess | a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind | |
| 210850533 | monsoons | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons | |
| 210850534 | hieroglyphics | an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | |
| 210850535 | mummification | embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | |
| 210850536 | pharaohs | egyptian kings | |
| 210850537 | menes | king of upper egypt united the two kingdoms of upper and lower egypt | |
| 210850538 | delta | a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water | |
| 210850539 | Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC) |