Chapter 2 Vocab

Landscape between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea in Southwest Asia that is curved shape

• Mesopotamia

• City-state

• Fertile Crescent

• Delta

They developed their own governments, each with its own rulers. controlled surrounding land and functioned much as an independent country does today.

• Theocracy

• City-state

• Harappan Civilization

A series of rulers from a single family is called a

• Dynasty

• Pharaoh

• Dynastic cycle

The Babylonian Empire reached its peak with this ruler

• Narmer

• Hammurabi

• Cultural diffusion

The type of government in which rule is based on religious authority

• Mesopotamia-

• Polytheism

• Theocracy

A process which involves embalming and drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying.

• mummification

• Loess

• Feudalism

Geographers often refer to the landmass that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as the Indian….

• Harappan civilization

• Papyrus-

• Subcontinent

River deposits that are yellowish silt and can overflow river banks. This silt is actually fertile soil called

• Delta

• Loess

• Fertile Crescent

Simple pictographs that were the earliest form of writing in Egypt. This term comes from the Greek words hieros and gluph, meaning “sacred carving”.

• Cuneiform

• Papyrus

• Hieroglyphics-

This process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another is called

• cultural diffusion

• Relocation

• cultural infusion