Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Advances
Junk Drawer
100
an advanced method of bringing water to fields
What is irrigation?
100
The arc of fertile land in southwest Asia is referred to as...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The source of the Nile is located in Lower or Upper Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
100
The device that allowed boats to travel against the wind.
What is the sail?
100
The man who made the saying," An eye for an eye" famous.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
The Greek word meaning "Land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The triangular-shaped deposit of land found at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
The device that helped farmers get the land ready for planting.
What is the plow?
200
The Code of Hammurabi was important because it was the….
What is the first set of codified law?
300
The rich, fertile soil left behind after flooding waters recede.
What is silt?
300
One of 3 environmental problems people in Mesopotamia faced.
What is flooding rivers, lack of natural resources and no natural protection?
300
The king in Egypt is also thought to be a _____________.
What is a god?
300
The Egyptian system of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
Hammurabi's laws did not treat people equally. The basis of the laws depended on a person's….
What is social class?
400
A form of government based on religious authority.
What is theocracy?
400
Solutions to 3 geographical problems people in Mesopotamia faced.
What is irrigation ditches, walls made of dried mud and trading with other people for resources?
400
The geographical feature that surrounds Egypt to the east and west.
What is the desert?
400
The Mesopotamian system of writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
The 2 rivers found in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
500

A complex society (government, religion, stable food supply, permanent towns/cities, written language, technology, social classes).

What is civilization?

500
How were Mesopotamian Kings viewed?
What is representatives of the gods?
500
The preservation of dead bodies in Ancient Egypt.
What is mummification?
500
The religious temple constructed by the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The main difference between the flooding of the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris/Euphrates in Mesopotamia.
What is the Nile was predictable? Flooded in JULY!!!!!
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