Chapter 2 Early River Civilization Vocabulary Quiz

an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq

• Neolithic Revolution

• Cultural Diffusion

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies

• Civilization

• Theocracy

• City-State

• Mummification

• Empire

An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds

• Pictoral diagrams

• Paleolithic

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth

• Cremating

• Theocracy

• Mummification

• Canopic Jars

an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

• City-State

• Empire

• Civilization

• Cultural Diffusion

• Institution

A government controlled by religious leaders

• Limited Government

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Judaism

The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

• Civilization

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Differences

• Empire

• Cultural Differentiation

Dynasty

• the first dynasty in Egyptian history

• A series of rulers from the same family

• the first organization in Chinese history

• A series of rulers from the same household

The land between the rivers tigrus and euphrates

• Mesopotamia

• Indus Valley

• Egypt

• Sumer

• Fertile Crescent

Polytheism

• Belief in not so many gods

• Belief in 1 gods

• Belief in not having gods

• Belief in many gods