Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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  1. 4. Deals with the status of a private right or matter, such as a business contract or inheritance of property.
  2. 6. A system of government that includes departments and levels of authority.
  3. 9. Deals with instances where one person commits harm against another, which can include anything from robbery to murder.
  4. 12. Spiritual leaders that interpret God’s will.
  5. 13. Pharoah during Egypt's New Kingdom, she encouraged trade with eastern Mediterranean lands and along the Red Sea coast of Africa.
  6. 14. Writing down laws.
  7. 15. Considered the father of the Israelite people.
  8. 17. Promise God made with Abraham.
  9. 20. King of Babylon around 1790 BCE, who became famous for developing one of the first sets of recorded laws in the world.
  10. 21. Region within the Fertile Crescent, area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
  11. 22. Triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers.
  12. 23. Ruling family.
  13. 24. A large building often used as a religious site or temple, distinguished by its layers of platforms shaped like steps.
  14. 26. An Akkadian ruler who led his armies to conquer other Sumerian city-states around 2300 BCE, which made him the first-ever known leader of an empire in human history.
  15. 27. A waterfall.
  16. 28. God that gave pharaohs their right to rule.
  17. 29. A Babylonian king who, after about one thousand years of decline, re-established the city as an empire in 612 BCE to rule over most of the Fertile Crescent.
  18. 32. Ancient Egyptian lead administrator that helped supervise the government.
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  1. 1. Preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth.
  2. 2. Writing system in which symbols or pictures represent objects, concepts, or sounds.
  3. 3. A section of land in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf which served as an important region for the development of several important civilizations.
  4. 5. Sacred text of Judaism.
  5. 7. One of the first recorded stories in history, known for depicting the life of a Sumerian hero-king, as well as telling of a flood that once destroyed all of the known world.
  6. 8. One of the earliest known forms of human writing, often performed by Sumerians carving wedge-like shapes into slabs of clay.
  7. 10. Believe in one god.
  8. 11. Pharoah who tried to make Egyptians monotheistic by having them only worship Aton.
  9. 16. Object that helped scholars decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
  10. 18. Society where men hold the greatest legal and moral authority.
  11. 19. Holy day for rest and worship.
  12. 25. Ancient Egyptian rulers.
  13. 26. A small collection of city-states that existed near the Persian Gulf around 3300 BCE, which came to be known as the first known civilization in human history.
  14. 30. The spreading out of Jewish people from their homeland.
  15. 31. Founded a religion with a system of beliefs centered on an eternal conflict between pure good and pure evil, which is considered to have influenced other religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.