WHI. 3 River Valley Vocab and People to Know Review

A city and its surrounding lands that functions as an independent political unit.

• Civilization

• City State

• Dynastic Cycle

• Hieroglyphics

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The first written language that was developed in Sumer.

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics

• Sanskrit

• Theocracy

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A permanent society with the key characteristics of religion, an economy, social hierarchy, government, improving technology, specialization of labor, and written language.

• City-State

• Cuneiform

• Civlization

• Kingdom

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In China, the theory of how each dynasty rises to a peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven, and is replaced by a new dynasty.

• Dynastic Cycle

• Pharaoh

• Hieroglyphics

• Polytheism

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Pictogram written language invented by the Egyptians.

• The Torah

• Vedas

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics

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King of ancient Egypt; considered a god on earth

• Dynastic Cycle

• Priest

• Pharaoh

• Ziggurat

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Belief in more than one god

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

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Government led by a religious ruler.

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• City State

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Stepped temple built by the Sumerians

• Ziggurat

• Temple

• Pyramid

• Mosque

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Which civilization?

Narmer

• Sumerian

• Egyptian

• Hebrew

• Phoenician

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