Social Studies 1-6 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Is considered by many as being the greatest of the New Kingdom paharoahs
Ramses ll
Is the term given to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
Torah
In Greek means the land between the rivers
Mesopotamia
Is the Jewish weekly day of worship
Sabbath
Is using artificial means of bringing water to crops
Irrigation
Is a mixture of the metals, copper, and tin
Bronze
Is complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing
Civilization
Is a group or band or traveling merchants
Caravan
Wrote a legal code that covered most aspects of daily life
Hammurabi
Was the western Asian people who conquered the Egyptians
Hykosos
Is a family of rulers who pass power down through the family
Dynasty
Was the name for the Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics
Was Bette r known as the “boy king”
King Tut
Is the belief in one, single God
Monotheism
Is the worlds largest “hot” desert
Sahara Desert
The term that means
“OLD STONE AGE”
Paleolithic
Was the woman pharaoh that was focused on trade and the economy
Hatshepsut
Was the structure in which the first pharaohs were buried
Pyramids
Was the name for the Sumerian writing system
Cuneiform
Was the chief God of the Egyptians
Re
Led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert
Moses
Is the worlds longest river
Nile
Was times of extreme cold, when great sheets of ice covered the world
Ice age
Was the archeologist who found King Tut’s tomb
Howard Carter
