Vocabulary Chapter 2

3. includes the lands facing the Mediterranean Sea and a plain, its means, “land between the rulers.”
4. is the king who led the Babylonian empire after they conquered Sumer, from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C.
5. government in which rule is based on religious authority.
6. is a process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another.
10. Egyptian god-kings.
12. the belief in more than one god.
13. also known as “sacred carving,” an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.

1. a marshy region formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
2. a king who helped unite lower and upper Egypt more evidence points to him being the person to unite the two.
3. royals and elite egytian bodies were preserved, involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.
6. each city and the surrounding land it controls.
7. series of rulers from a single family.
8. the arc of land in South East Asia, its land is rich.
9. a massive structure with a rectangular base and four triangular sides, like those that were uilt in eqypt as burial places for old kingdom pharaohs.
11. is a political unit in which a number of people or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
14. a tall reed that grows in the nile delta, used by ancient Egyptians to make a paperlike material for writing on.