General
Both Mesopotamian and Egyptian religions are ___________.
Polytheistic
The form of writing or language in Mesopotamia is called __________?
Cuneiform
The ruler of Egypt who was worshipped like a God was called _________.
In ___________, floods were regular and fertilized the soil around the river.
Egypt
What is the meaning of the word Mesopotamia?
The form of writing or language in Egypt is called ___________.
Hieroglyphs
Were cities in the river civilization self-sufficient? Did each city produce everything the people of that city needed?
No, they traded with other cities
This Babylonian ruler named ___________ wrote the first ever written legal code called the _____________.
Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi
The Egyptian civilization is divided into 3 periods. They are called:
The Old Empire, the Middle Empire, the New Empire
The river civilizations did not use coins for trade, they used ___________.
How was Mesopotamian society divided?
The aristocracy (King, nobility, etc), the priests, scribes, free people and slaves
Once they died, the bodies of Egyptians were made into ___________ and preserved in a _____________.
Why did writing become necessary around the 4th millenium BC?
Cities began to grow and they had to find way to store data relialbly
A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid is called a _________.
ziggurat
Most Egyptians in the Egyptian civilization belonged to which social class?
Peasants