Chapter 2 Vocabulary

3. Devine approval to rule.
4. Writing surface made from pressed reeds.
9. Landmass that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
11. Political system in which nobles, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king.
12. Each city and its surrounding land that acted as an independent country.
13. Set of rulers from a single family
14. Egyptian writing system.
15. Ruler of the Babylonian Empire who was famous for his code of laws.
16. Egyptian god-king
18. Pattern of rise, decline and replacement of dynasties.
20. Bringing together of several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one ruler.
21. Curved Shape in southwest Asia, that provided some of the best farming.
22. Fertile soil that comes from the Yellow River.

1. Belief in many gods.
2. A broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of a river.
5. Eternal resting place for kings of the old kingdom.
6. Seasonal winds
7. Type of government in which rule is based off of religious authority.
8. Land between the rivers.
10. Process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another.
14. Another name for Indus Valley Civilization.
17. Animal bones or tortoise shells on which priests scratched questions for their gods.
19. Preservation process that included embalming, and drying of corpses to prevent decay.