Words that start with "A"
The science of farming
What is Agriculture?
Belief in multiple gods
What is Polytheism?
Individual territories that make up a civilization
What is Empire?
Human made waterways
What are Canals?
Pyramid shaped temple
What is Ziggurat?
The science of building
What is Architecture?
Belief in a single god
What is Monotheism?
Long poems that tell stories of Heroes
What is Epic?
A text that has a number of magic spells that were supposed to help a person in the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?
Producing more than you need
What is surplus?
The place where the Ancient Egyptians believed they would go after death
What is Afterlife?
A dead body that has been specially preserved so that it won't rot
What is a mummy?
A large arc of rich fertile farmland
What is Fertile Crescent?
A period of rule when a series of pharaohs all came from the same family
What is Dynasty?
A special stone that has the same inscription written both in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphics
What is Rosetta Stone?
A symbol carried by the pharaohs and gods that meant "life"
What is Ankh?
A plant that grew on the banks of the Nile
What is Papyrus?
The Egyptian colony also know as Nubia
What is Kush?
A written code of law from 1772
What is Code of Hammurabi?
A mixture of soil and rocks that is very fertile, used for farming
What is Silt?
The annual flooding of the Nile River
What is Akhet?
A tall pillar monument that the Egyptians generally built as pairs near the entrances to their temples
What is Obelisk?
A type of writing that used a combination of pictures and symbols
What is Hieroglyphics?
A Sumerian King of the city-state of Uruk. He later became known in mythology as a demigod with superhuman strength
Who is Gilgamesh?
A person trained in writing in cuneiform script. They were well-respected in Mesopotamian society
What is Scribe?