_____________ were considered the lowest class of people in Egyptian societies.
What is farmers/peasants
100
What was the title of the leader of the Egyptian government?
A Pharaoh
200
What natural product did Mesopotamians write on?
What is clay?
200
What two rivers surrounded ancient Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
_____________ is the belief in several gods.
What is polytheism
200
The Nile provided a route for Egyptians to __________ with other surrounding civilizations for resources in which Egypt was not rich in.
What is trade
200
Who was the creator of the first set of written laws in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Who is King Hammurabi?
300
From what plant did the Egyptians make a type of paper product, called by the same name as the plant?
What is papyrus
300
Mesopotamia is also known the ________________ due its prime location between two rivers that created rich soil
What is "Fertile Crescent"
300
Ancient Egyptians buried their Pharaohs in tombs called _________________
What is pyramids
300
How did humans change from the old to the new stone age?
They began living in farming villages, raising animals and crops
300
Which Greek city-state introduced the world to democracy?
What is Athens.
400
What was the name of the form of writing invented by ancient Egyptians?
What is hieroglyphics?
400
Name three benefits that societies living in a river valley have over other civilizations?
What is trade, transportation, rich soil, various resources, food, water source, etc.
400
What is the largest religion in the world today?
What is Christianity.
400
What is one positive and one negative of expanded trade routes?
What is access to more than your natural resources, more job opportunities for exports, spread of culture, ideas, and religion. What is spread of disease, easy targets for robbery/pirates.
400
What saying describes the type of punishments given in Hammurabi's Code?
What is "an eye for an eye"
500
What is the significance of the 12 tables to Roman law?
What is a public display of laws that pertained to everyone and couldn't be changed.
500
What about the physical geography of Greece led the land to be divided into many city-states?
What are mountains.
500
Who is the main god of the Hindu religion that is believed to be the foundation of all existence.
Who is Brahman?
500
Which type of social structure divided its citizens this way...
Brahmins
Kshatriyas
Vaisyas
Sudras
Untouchables
What is the caste system.
500
A _____________ is a city and surrounding land that make up an independent state, with its own ruler, army, and laws.