Matching/Vocab Terms Test 2 Chapter 2 Flashcards
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| 273883542 | Jean Champollion | French linguist who used the Rosetta Stone to decipher Hieroglyphics | 0 | |
| 273883544 | Osiris | The Egyptian god of both the Nile and the underworld | 1 | |
| 273883545 | Hyksos | Tribe from Asia Minor who conquered Egypt with horse-drawn chariots | 2 | |
| 273883547 | Howard Carter | Discovered the unopened tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 | 3 | |
| 273883549 | Phoenicians | Great sailors and traders who helped invent our alphabetical system | 4 | |
| 273883551 | Amon-Re | The sun god, the most important figure in Egyptian religion | 5 | |
| 273883553 | Menes | The king who successfully combined upper and lower Egypt | 6 | |
| 273883555 | Cuneiform | The Sumerian writing system which used a wedged stylus and wet clay tablets | 7 | |
| 273883557 | Dynasty | A ruling family, generally passing control from father to son | 8 | |
| 273883559 | Mesopotamia | The Greek word for "land between two rivers" | 9 | |
| 273883561 | Hittites | Tribe who was able to invade Mesopotamia because of new iron weapons | 10 | |
| 273883563 | Enkidu | The "wild man" protagonist in the Sumerian classic Epic of Gilgamesh | 11 | |
| 273883565 | Utnapishtim | Figure associated with the early Sumerian story of the flood | 12 | |
| 273883567 | Leonard Woolly | Discovered the unopened temple of Queen Puabi | 13 | |
| 273883569 | Ziggurat | Pyramid-shaped temples of the Sumerian city states | 14 |