Geography
These two rivers form the boundaries of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
He created the world's first empire of Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
A social system divided into rigid classes with increasing power and privilege for those on top.
What is a social hierarchy?
This form of religion, popular in ancient societies, consisted in the belief in many gods or goddesses.
What is polytheism?
This famous stone allowed for scholars to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This portion of the Nile river branches near the Mediterranean and creates a triangular shaped area of fertile land.
This Egyptian pharaoh battled the Hittites and established many temples and monuments.
Who is Ramses II.
The bulk of Egyptian society were employed in this profession.
What is farming?
What are oracle bones (or shells)?
This civilization that lived along the coast of the Mediterranean invented one of the world's first alphabets.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This river, also known as China's Sorrow, has unpredictable floods, which are both necessary for agriculture and deadly.
What is the Huang He (Yellow River)?
This Chaldean King built Babylon's famed hanging gardens.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This Babylonian King believed that his laws, the first of their kind, would bring about justice and righteousness for all time.
Who is Hammurabi?
These step pyramids were built in Mesopotamian city-states to worship their gods.
What are ziggurats?
This material, made from reeds, allowed Egyptian scribes to record long-lasting documents.
What is papyrus?
This kingdom was located to the South of Egypt and was an occasional trading partner and conquered territory of the Egyptians.
Where is Kush?
This dynasty overthrew the Shang, claiming the Mandate of Heaven.
Who are the Zhou Dynasty?
These highly educated workers would have written government records in cuneiform in Mesopotamia.
Who are scribes?
What is ka?
This wild-man was sent by the gods to punish Gilgamesh, but eventually became his companion, according to The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Who is Enkidu.
The Hittites originally came from this region, before invading Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Where is Anatolia/Turkey/Asia Minor?
According to legend, he founded the, potentially mythical, Xia Dynasty.
Who is Yu the Great?
Unlike many other ancient civilizations, women in Egypt could sign these.
What are contracts?
This Egyptian god has the head of a jackal and guides souls to the afterlife.
Who is Anubis?
This Mesopotamian priestess and poet, author of the Hymn to Ishtar, was the earliest named female author in history.
Who is Enheduanna?