Prehistory
What is the name of people who move from place to place in search for food?
What are nomads?
What are the TWO rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What river runs through Egypt?
What is the Nile.
What is a permanent move from one location to another?
What is migration.
What three bodies of water boarder or run through Ancient Egypt?
What are the Nile River, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea
List two ways we know what life was like for early humans?
What is archaeology and cave art.
Why was it important that the rivers flooded in Mesopotamia?
What is it left behind silt needed for farming.
What was the leader of Egypt's government called?
What is a pharaoh.
What does the word Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
What continents did humans migrate through to get to South America?
What is Africa, Asia, and North America.
Name at least TWO important inventions from Mesopotamia?
What is the plow, cuneiform, wheel, chariot, sailboat.
Why was it easier to farm along the Nile than the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is the word for the area of fertile land in present day Iraq?
What is the Fertile Crescent.
What does the Neolithic Age refer to?
What is the start of farming.
What was the Mesopotamia social pyramid based on?
What is job or occupation.
What was the collection of religious spells which were thought to be helpful to the deceased in the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead.
What is the term for the belief in many gods.
What is polythiesm/polytheistic?
Name at least 2 ways the Agriculutral Revolution changed societies?
What is
-no longer were nomadic, could settle in one place
-had a constant food supply
-specialization of jobs
Who was the famous ruler who created the first known written set of laws AND what city-state was he from.(Hint: very strict)
Who is Hammurabi from Babylon.
Why was Upper Egypt located in the South?
It corresponds to the flow of the Nile River (South to North).
What is the word for the process of moving water from the rivers to farmland?
What is irrigation.