Ancient Egypt
A major accomplishment during Egypt’s Old Kingdom was
a. the conquest of Syria.
b. the conquest of Nubia.
c. the building of the Great Pyramids.
d. a large drainage project to increase farm-able land.
c. the building of the Great Pyramids.
The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs
technology
Which of the following was a Sumerian innovation that later civilizations built on?
a. irrigation system
b. code of law
c. cuneiform
d. system of weights and measures
c. cuneiform
The name of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates.
Which of the following is an example of an artifact? a. fossils
b. bones
c. pottery
d. rock layers
c. pottery
River that runs through Egypt and is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River.
When people adopt many different jobs like artisan, priest or potter.
What is job specialization?
Hammurabi’s Code was important because it was the first time that a state’s laws
In writing
The babylonian king, Hammurabi, created the first set of recorded laws. They are know as what?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The top social class in ancient societies was typically occupied by
a. wealthy merchants.
b. farmers
c. priests and nobles.
d. artisans.
c. priests and nobles.
The ancient Egyptians form of writing...
What is Heiroglyphics
worshiping or believing in more than one God
What is polytheistic?
They are Sumerian religuous temples.
What are ziggurats?
A ruler who conquered many cities and villages created a.
a civilization.
b. a city-state.
c. an empire.
d. a culture
c. an empire.
Egyptians created this process that uses chemicals to preserve dead bodies.
What is mummification?
Due to food surplus, this grew in cities and towns
population
This is the name of the Sumerian writing system.
What is Cuneiform.
What invention made farming possible in dry areas?
a. Sailboats
b. Wheels
c. Irrigation ditches
d. Cuneiform
c. Irrigation ditches
In the bureaucracy of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, government matters, such as tax collection and the irrigation system, were supervised by the
a. vizier.
b. pharaoh.
c. chief scribe.
d. satrap.
a. vizier.
An order of people in a society with producers like farmers toward the bottom and kings and rulers near the top.
What is Social Hierarchy
an early step in the development of writing, uses drawings
pictographs
Mesopotamia was also know as this ____________
What is Fertile crescent?
What word means a self-governing city and its surrounding villages?
a. Silt
b. Empire
c. Suburb
d. City-state
d. City-state