Sumerians
The Sumerians invented this first writing system.
Answer: What is cuneiform?
The two rivers of Mesopotamia.
Answer: What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Egyptian rulers were considered these.
Answer: What are gods on Earth?
Sumerians believed in many gods, a system called this.
Answer: What is polytheism?
Egyptians used this plant to make paper.
Answer: What is papyrus?
The world’s first city with over 50,000 people.
Answer: What is Uruk?
The world’s longest river, lifeline of Egypt.
What is the Nile?
The Old Kingdom was also called the 'Age of the ______.'
Answer: What are Pyramids?
Egyptian government was based on this religious authority system.
Answer: What is a theocracy?
Sumerians invented this farming tool.
What is the plow?
Sumerian temples shaped like stepped pyramids.
Answer: What are ziggurats?
The nickname of Mesopotamia’s fertile region.
Answer: What is the Fertile Crescent?
The pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Answer: Who is Narmer?
The Sumerians’ patron gods were honored in these buildings.
Answer: What are ziggurats?
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode this.
Answer: What are hieroglyphics?
The Sumerian number system was based on this number.
What is 60?
Egypt’s fertile land was called this.
What is the Black Land?
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for this pharaoh.
Answer: Who is Khufu?
Egyptians believed pharaohs’ eternal spirit was called this.
Answer: What is the ka?
This Sumerian invention was first used for pottery, later transport.
Answer: What is the wheel?
Sumerians lived in this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
Egypt’s desert regions were known as this.
What is the Red Land?
The Egyptian crown combining Upper and Lower Egypt.
Answer: What is the Double Crown?
Egyptians believed pyramids represented this creation myth mound.
Answer: What is the primordial mound?
This Sumerian profession gave people great power through writing.
Answer: Who are scribes?