This is a hard white material made from elephant tusks.
What is ivory?
100
This is the Sumerian form of writing that they started to use about 3,400 BC.
What is cuneiform?
100
This is a line marked off with a series of events and dates. There is one in this classroom.
What is timeline?
200
This is a body preserved by a special process.
What is a mummy?
200
This is a structure with triangular sides found in Egypt and Nubia.
What is a pyramid?
200
This is the buying or selling of goods and services. It is another word for trade.
What is commerce?
200
These are the two main rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
200
These are imaginary lines drawn around Earth to help geographers describe places. They are used to determine absolute location.
What are longitude and latitude?
300
During the ----------- Kingdom, they build the pyramids.
What is Old?
300
When Egypt relied on Nubia's gold, and Nubia relied on Egypt's grain, this was an example of ........
What is interdependence?
300
Name two achievements of ancient Sumeria.
What is irrigation, the plow, the sail? EXAMPLES
300
The definition of this word is "a system of worship and belief, including belief about the nature of a god or gods.
What is religion?
400
This is the Egyptian word for the dark, rich soil in the Nile Valley.
What is Kemet?
400
This is the biggest pyramid and was the tallest structure for over 4,000 years.
What is Great Pyramid of Khufu?
400
In the 700's BC, a Nubian king conquered Thebes in Egypt. Then there was another king who conquered many Egyptian cities. This was his name.
What is Piye?
400
This is a written law code that governed life in the Babylonian empire. It follows the "rule of law."
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
This is another term for passing down stories by word of mouth or a community's cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs.
What is oral tradition?
500
These are the two main sources of the Nile River.
What are the White Nile and Blue Nile Rivers?
500
This ancient Egyptian architect built step pyramids.
Who is Imhotep?
500
The Nubian capital moved from Napata to ...
What is Meroe?
500
This was the leader of the Persian empire who had 10,000 soldiers that he called the "Immortals."
Who is Cyrus the Great?
500
This is the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.