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- 3. "land between the rivers" (Tigris & Euphrates)
- 5. was a pivotal ruler of Early Dynastic Egypt
- 8. the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire
- 9. reign was a period of great prosperity and general peace.
- 12. most commonly refers to a sequence of rulers from the same family or, in popular culture, two major American television soap operas.
- 14. the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- 15. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
- 16. ancient Egypt's peak, an era of immense power, wealth, and expansion, often called the Egyptian Empire, marked by iconic pharaohs like Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II, grand monuments (like those at Karnak and Valley of the Kings), and territorial growth into Nubia and the Levant
- 17. god-kings and supreme rulers of ancient Egypt
- 19. a realm controlled by a monarch or other official and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries.
- 21. an ancient civilization in the Nile Valley (modern Sudan/Egypt) known for gold, trade (ivory, incense), and powerful kingdoms like Kush
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- 1. A landform (river delta) created by deposition of sediment at the mouth of a river as the flow enters slower-moving or standing water.
- 2. the spread of cultural elements
- 4. an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
- 6. his long, prosperous reign (66 years), powerful military leadership (Battle of Kadesh), and monumental building projects, including the Abu Simbel temples and expansion of Karnak
- 7. wealthy capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in modern-day Sudan
- 10. a boomerang-shaped region in the Middle East
- 11. the belief in or worship of more than one god.
- 13. (1479-1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
- 18. a dynasty of West-Semitic people from Canaan who ruled northern Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period
- 20. powerful ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley