Ancient Civilizations Vocab

What is a ziggurat?

• a building built for gods and priests

• a palace for the king

• a building for slaves

• a palace for Hammurabi

Define city-state

• consists of a central independent city and the land around it.

• the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular group

• a spatial area that is characterized by a population that shares common beliefs, history, language, customs, and traditions

• a long-standing practice, tradition, or custom that regulates a group .

are pieces of ox scapula or turtle plastron, which were used in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty.

• Mandate of Heaven

• delta

• oracle bones

• vizier

to reduce to a code

• Vizier

• polytheism

• codify

• theocracy

the divine source of authority and the right to rule of China's early kings and emperors

• Dynastic Cycle

• Mandate of Heaven

• delta

• King Menes

an important political theory in the Chinese history.

• delta

• polytheism

• theocracy

• dynastic cycle

a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the First Dynasty

• King Menes

• Pharaoh

• King Tut

• Isis

wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

• theocracy

• rivers

• oceans

• delta

was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, itself the most powerful period of Ancient Egypt

• King Menes

• King Tut

• King Isis

• King Ramses II

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

• Church governmnet

• democracy

• theocracy

• dictatorship