Pre- AP World History: Unit I Key Terms Flashcards

12257742238	Pharaoh	Great House - title of rulers in ancient Egypt	0
12257756650	Bureaucracy	system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority	1
12257770811	Vizier	chief minister who supervised the business of government in ancient Egypt	2
12257782598	Hieroglyphics	System of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds.	3
12264010971	Papyrus	Plant used to make a paper-like writing material in ancient Egypt	4
12264051382	Polytheistic	Believing in many gods	5
12264053358	Rosetta Stone	Stone monument that includes the same passage carved in hieroglyphics, demotic script, and Greek and that was used to decipher the meanings of many hieroglyphs	6
12264038220	Dynasty	Ruling family	7
12264044313	Amon-Re	The ancient Egyptian god of the sun	8
12264045450	Osiris	Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead	9
12264047031	Isis	Egyptian goddess of fertility	10
12264051383	Mummification	The preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth	11
12264063292	Hatshepsut	First female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade	12
12264065000	Thutmose III	Warlike ruler; stepson of Hatshepsut	13
12264066294	Akhenaton	He who serves Aton	14
12264067784	Ramses II	King of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments	15
12264069123	Fertile Crescent	Region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose	16
12264070038	Mesopotamia	Region within the Fertile Crescent that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers	17
12264067785	The Epic of Gilgamesh	Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first told in Sumer	18
12264072192	Hierarchy	A system of ranking groups	19
12264073066	Ziggurat	In ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by e temple dedicated to a city's chief god or goddess	20
12264073067	Cuneiform	In the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks	21
12264074581	Sargon	Ruler of Akkad	22
12264076037	Nebuchadnezzar	A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem,and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon	23
12264075629	Hammurabi	King of Babylon brought much of Mesopotamia under the control of his empire	24
12264076038	Monotheistic	Believing in one god	25
12264077528	Torah	The most sacred text of the Hebrew Bible, including its first five books	26
12264078653	Abraham	Father of the Israelite people	27
12264080249	Covenant	a binding agreement; specifically, in the Jewish tradition, the binding agreement God made with Abraham	28
12264081113	Moses	The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus	29
12264081114	Sabbath	A holy day for rest and worship	30
12264082158	Diaspora	The spreading of Jews beyond their historic homeland	31
12264082727	Barter economy	Economic system in which one set of goods or services is exchanged for another	32
12264083630	Money economy	Economic system in which goods or services are paid for through the exchange of a token of an agreed value	33
12264083631	Zoroaster	The founder of Persia's classical pre-Islamic religion, Zoroastrianism	34
12264084676	Phoenician Alphabet	An alphabet that was developed by the phoenicians that became the model for later western alphabets	35