Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi was the first this.
What is code of written laws?
The first step in the mummification process.
What is covering the body in salt?
Who is King Tut?
This river runs through Egypt. It provided fertile land, a means of transportation, and mud to make bricks to the ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
King Tut was this many years old when he came to power.
What is 9?
He ruled over and united Mesopotamia.
Who is King Hammurabi?
Ancient Egyptians typically believed in many gods (except King Tut's dad!). The belief in many gods/goddesses is called this.
What is polytheism?
If you built a house and it fell down, this was the punishment.
What is death?
The second step in the mummification process.
What is the organs are placed in canopic jars?
Pharaohs were considered living gods. Since they were religious leaders in their civilization, their rule would be called this.
What is a theocracy?
Mesopotamia sits between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
King Tut was this age when he died.
What is 18?
The developed the world's first written language, called this.
What is cuneiform?
These jars were used to store internal organs once they were removed from dead bodies.
What are canopic jars?
If a son hit his father, this was the punishment.
What is cutting off the hand?
The third step of the mummification process.
What is stuffing the body with natron (salt) and linen?
After they were mummified, the bodies of pharaohs were placed in these (stone coffins).
What is sarcophagus?
The climate of ancient Egypt.
What is hot and dry?
King Tut had this health problem.
What is a bone disease?
Mesopotamia was located in this country.
What is Iraq?
Written language of the ancient Egyptians that used pictures.
What is hieroglyphics?
If you steal and give the stolen goods to someone else, this was the punishment.
What is death for both the thief and the person he gave the goods to?
This is the main reason bodies were mummified in ancient Egypt.
What is to prepare the body for the afterlife?
Pharaohs were often buried with their personal items and treasure because...
What is they believed they needed them for the afterlife?
A strip of land that curves from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
What is the fertile crescent?
This is why some people think King Tut's advisor Aye killed him.
What is because he married King Tut's wife after he died and became pharaoh?
Three things ancient Mesopotamians invented.
What are the calendar, the wheel, the plow, the first written language, etc.?
The three most important crops in ancient Egypt.
What are flax, papyrus, and wheat?
TRUE or FALSE: punishments in ancient Mesopotamia were not as harsh as legal punishments in the US are now.
What is FALSE?
True or False: only rich people were mummified.
What is FALSE?
This is why the pyramids were built.
What is to be burial places for pharaohs?
This largest desert in the world runs through parts of Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is why some people think King Tut wasn't murdered.
What is because he had a bone disease that could have made him more susceptible to injury and accidental death?
Ancient Mesopotamians used this method to water crops.
What is irrigation?
Egyptians built this monument based on a mythical creature.
What is the Sphinx?