Mesopotamia
Egypt
Early People
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100
Mesopotamia means
What is land between two rivers?
100
The most important geographic feature in ancient Egypt was
What is the Nile River?
100
The earliest human remains were found on which continent
What is Africa?
100
The belief in many gods is
What is polytheism?
100
Egyptians believed in many gods which is described as
What is Polytheism?
200
Mesopotamia was in which present day countries...
What is Syria, Turkey and Iraq
200
Pharaohs had absolute power over their people because pharaohs were believed to be
What was gods?
200
The ability to control fire affect early humans because...
What is it allowed them to keep warm in cooler climates
200
Circa means
What is about?
200
Which technology helped create a surplus of food...
What is a plow?
300
The first form of writing was
What is cuneiform?
300
Egyptian Kingdoms were divided up into series of connected rulers called
What is dynasties?
300
The Paleolithic people were nomads, this means they were
What is hunter-gathers?
300
The taming and raising of animals
What is domestication?
300
The greatest benefit to people when early farmers began to take plants and animals was
What is they had a stable food supply?
400
Scribes in Mesopotamia wrote on
What is clay?
400
To get to the afterlife, Egyptians believed they had to be
What is a mummy?
400
The Neolithic Age ended when they discovered how to make
What is metal tools?
400
The way Mesopotamia farmers got water to their crops
What is irrigation?
400
The yearly flooding of the Nile River affect the people living in Egypt by
What is it left silt that improved the soil?
500
Hammurabi's Code was important because it
What is listed the laws and the corresponding punishments?
500
How did the desert benefit the people living in ancient Egypt
What is it provided protection from invaders?
500
Cities Organized Governments Religions Job Specialization Social Classes Art and Architecture Writing Economy with Food Surplus
What is characteristics of civilization?
500
Mesopotamians lied in small, independent nations called
What is city-states?
500
Most settlements in ancient Egypt were near
What is the Nile River
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