World History Chapter 2 Flashcards

7288185758	Fertile Crescent	an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began	0
7288187862	Mesopotamia	Land between two rivers	1
7288189124	Hammurabi	Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)	2
7288190343	city state	an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government	3
7288192833	dynasty	A series of rulers from the same family	4
7288195474	polytheism	Belief in many gods	5
7288196601	empire	A land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler	6
7288197705	delta	A triangle shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river	7
7288198882	Pharaoh	a king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political leader	8
7288199894	theocracy	A government controlled by religious leaders	9
7288201667	pyramid	great stone tomb built for an Egyptian pharaoh	10
7288206669	mummification	practice of preserving the bodies of the dead	11
7288209602	hieroglyphics	Egyptian writing that involved using pictures to represent words.	12
7288210944	papyrus	Egyptian paper made from a plant grown along the Nile	13
7288212324	subcontinent	A large landmass that juts out from a continent	14
7288215556	monsoon	seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons	15
7288218534	Harappan Civilization	Ancient settlements in the Indus River Valley	16
7288220203	loess	A wind-formed deposit made of fine particles of clay and silt	17
7288221842	oracle bone	a bone commonly used during the Shang dynasty in China to predict the future	18
7288223828	Mandate of Heaven	a power or law believed to be granted by a god	19
7288225125	dynastic cycle	The rise and fall of dynasties	20
7288229098	feudalism	A system of government based on landowners and tenants	21