Mesopotamia
What was their writing system?
What is cuneiform?
Why did Egypt have rich soil?
What is the flooding of the Nile?
Were they polytheistic or monotheistic?
What is polytheistic?
What is the longest river in the world and is a north-flowing river?
What is the Nile River?
What rivers is Mesopotamia between?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The sumerians numbering system is...
What is the base-10 system?
Was it possible to work your way up the social structure?
Yes
How many rulers did they have at a time?
One
Channels that guide water to crops.
What is irrigation?
Why did Mesopotamia have successful agriculture?
What is rich soil?
How did they keep track of payments, taxes, and trade?
What are counting stones?
What did they call their money?
What is a deben?
Were women allowed to have power?
Yes
What body of water is behind the Mediterranean Sea?
What is the Black Sea?
What was the main geographical feature in southern Mesopotamia?
What are deserts?
Who owned the land in Mesopotamia?
Who is the king?
How did the farmers pay their taxes?
What is their harvest?
What was the difference between the flooding of the Nile and the flooding of the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The Tigris and Euphrates flooded irregularly.
What type of crops did they harvest the most of?
What is Papyrus, wheat of flax?
What current day region was Mesopotamia located in?
What is the Middle East?
What was the benefit of surplus?
What is not having to spend time gathering food?
Why did the Egyptians have time for new advancements?
What is having a surplus?
Besides the king, who was on the top level of the social hierarchy in Mesopotamia that wasn't on the top level of Egypt's social hierarchy.
What are priests?
The ancient state that spread from the Nile River to the Red Sea.
What is Nubia?
What is the region in the Middle East where some of the earliest civilizations began?
What is the Fertile Crescent?