2. Mesopotamia and Egypt

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  1. 3. king and judge of the underworld; Egyptian god of vegetation and growth
  2. 6. associated with mummification and the afterlife; later replaced by Osiris
  3. 7. (c. 3200 B.C.) king of Upper Egypt that conquered Lower Egypt and united the kingdom of Egypt
  4. 12. huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.
  5. 14. the belief that humans, animals, plants, and inanimate objects are spiritual being with souls
  6. 15. wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus; goddess of nature and magic
  7. 17. the Egyptian sun god; born every day with the sunrise and died every night with the sunset
  8. 20. ancient Babylonian law code; one of the oldest law codes in history; associated with the phrase: "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
  9. 21. the two famous rivers of Mesopotamia; their unpredictable flooding sometimes resulted in disaster
  10. 22. belief in many gods
  11. 23. (1332-1323 B.C.) pharaoh whose tomb was discovered intact in 1922; now known as King Tut
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  1. 1. temples made of mud brick and timber in Mesopotamia ; shaped as step-pyramids
  2. 2. the writing-style of Mesopotamia; crafted by applying a stylus to a clay tablet; the word literally means "wedge-shaped"
  3. 4. Akkadian emperor who conquered Mesopotamia around 2340; known as the world's first conqueror
  4. 5. the tendency to adopt and adapt the religious ideas and practices of other peoples
  5. 8. (51-30 B.C.) the last of the great pharaohs; romantically involved with Julius Caesar and later Mark Antony
  6. 9. (1279-1213 B.C.) often considered the greatest and most powerful pharaoh
  7. 10. a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  8. 11. ancient Egyptian writing system that was both pictographic (pictures represent words) and alphabetic (letters represent sounds)
  9. 13. one of the oldest recorded civilizations; means "between rivers"
  10. 16. title for the great rulers of ancient Egypt
  11. 18. (1353-1336B.C.) established monotheistic worship of Aten during his reign as pharaoh; originally called Amenhotep IV
  12. 19. the longest river in the world; the most significant geographic feature of Egypt