Mesopotamia
The Word Mesopotamia Means
Land Between two rivers
Egypt is located on what continent
Africa
What are the names of the two rivers in India
The Indus River and the Ganges River
When more than enough is made, it is called?
A surplus
The Nile River Flows___________ to _____________
South to North
Mesopotamia is called the land, between what two rivers
The Tigris and Euphrates River
In Egypt the Deserts are called the _______ ________
Red Lands
What natural disaster in India caused the Indus and Ganges river to flood?
Monsoons
What does the word polytheistic mean?
Worship many gods
The type of soil found in the Fertile Crescent and other places with flooding rivers.
Silt
Name of the temple, where their gods were worshipped
A ziggurat
What Natural Resource is a Gift to Egypt
The Nile River
Why did the Buddha say that people suffered
Because People want or desire things
What does the word Agriculture mean
The practice of farming
Who started the religion Buddhism
Siddartha Guatama
Mesopotamia had 3 classes in their social hierarchy (the pyramid) what were they
Middle Class
Lower class
What was harvested and made into baskets, ropes, and shoes
Papyrus
A state of Perfect Happiness and Peace
Nirvana
A professional writer in Ancient times
A scribe
What are four of the gifts of the Nile
Fertile Soil for farming
- Mud for Bricks
- Papyrus
- Protection
- Transportation Route
- Religious influence
- Seasons - Flooding influenced Egyptian calendar
In order to keep cities from flooding,
Mesopotamians learned to use ________,
or the ways of supplying water to land
through the use of canals, ditches, and
reservoirs.
Irrigation canals
Name the three natural barriers that Egypt had, making it hard for invaders
-Deserts
-cataracts
-Mediterranean Sea
A system that divides Inida into social classes
The caste system
What does domesticate mean
To tame animals, that can help humans
Name all three Civilizations written language
-Mesopotamia:
-Egypt:
-India:
-Cuneiform
-Hieroglyphics
-Sanskrit