A complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a number of common elements.
What is a civilization?
100
Name two inventions that the Sumerians invented that we have here in Saint Louis.
What is the arch and the dome?
100
The river(s) that is known for its unpredictability when flooding.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
200
The two rivers in the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River?
200
This person had the most power in the Sumerian society.
What is a priest?
200
The way of life.
What is culture?
200
A wedge-shaped system of writing that the Sumerians invented.
What is cuneiform?
200
The four natural barriers for the Nile River area.
What is the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the desert, and the rapids of the Nile?
300
The land between the rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
A government ruled by religion.
What is theocracy?
300
What two civilizations did we cover in class.
What is Egyptian and Sumerian civilization?
300
The system of controlling a body of water to water other areas that do not have naturally have direct contact with the large body of water.
What is irrigation?
300
Name one reason of how the river helped create a civilization.
What is the river was the source of farming to take place which created civilizations?
400
The two names dividing Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
400
They "ruled" the city.
What is gods?
400
This brought civilizations into existence and why.
What is farming. Farming created a surplus of food which helped increase the population.
400
The invention that helped transport people and goods from place to place.
What is the wheel?
400
Name two differences between the Tigris and Euphrates River and the Nile River.
What is the predictability of the flooding and the length of the rivers.
500
The two bodies of river that touch the Fertile Crescent.
What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
500
The three reasons of how the ziggurat was the center of the city.
What is physically, economically, and politically. It was the literally placed in the center of the city. It was the center of trade and the priest who had power of the city lived there.
500
Name all six characteristics of a civilization.
What is cities, government, religion, social structure, writing, and art?
500
The name of the pyramid and statue guarding it that was mentioned in a movie shown in class.
What is the Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx?
500
Name the body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates River flow into and name the body of water that the Nile River flows into it.
What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?