Rivers
This river supported the ancient peoples who wrote on papyrus.
What is the Nile?
This Egyptian king was considered god.
Who is a pharaoh?
Their writing is called Hieroglyphics
Who are Egyptians?
The area around these rivers was called the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This civilization exported papyrus and linen.
What is Egyptian?
They cultivated apricot, olives, and dates.
Who were the Sumerians?
This river flows from the Himalayas in Asia.
What is the Indus?
The Sumerians made furniture for the rich with this wood.
What is cedar?
These were the imports into Egypt.
What are ebony and ivory?
This river in Asia is the birthplace of the Chinese Civilization.
What is Huang He?
This was the name of the rich, black, fertile soil along the Nile.
What is Kemet?
Their gods were the sun, moon, water, and sky?
Who were the Sumerians?
The Songhai and Ashanti peoples settled along this river.
What is the River Niger?
The Sumerians are credited with this first form of writing.
What is pictograph?
The Sumerians built temples with a pyramid on top that was called this.
What is the Ziggurat?