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This is the name for people who moved around a lot.
What is nomadic?
This is the name for people who kept records and wrote down laws and history
What are scribes?
Nomadic people settled in ancient Mesopotamia because it had this kind of soil, which was good for growing food
What is fertile?
Each city-state in Mesopotamia had a ziggurat dedicated to a specific one of these.
What is a god?
This is a reed (plant) that grows in the Nile River Valley that Egyptians used to make paper, rope, and sandals.
What is papyrus?
This is a Mesopotamian religious center
What is a Ziggurat?
This is the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
In ancient Mesopotamia, they believed the power of the ruler came from this.
What are the gods?
This is when people could do jobs other than farming due to having surplus food.
What is Specialization?
This is the word for inventions and devices that make work easier and more productive.
What is technology?
This is the term that means there is extra - especially related to food
What is surplus?
This word means to stay in one place in a settled society.
What is sedentary?
In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, a person’s social class was determined by this.
What is job?
These were the political, military, and religious leaders in Egypt.
What are the Pharaohs?
This is the word for exchanging one good or service for another.
What is trade or barter?
This is the written language of Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
Known as the "Lifeline of Egypt", many cities developed near it
What is the Nile River?
This was important in ancient Mesopotamia because it helped them record and track the sale of goods.
What is cuneiform?
Hammurabi’s laws were different depending on which one of these you were from.
What is social class?
This word means cultivating land, growing plants, and breeding animals for human use.
What is agriculture?
In this kind of society, men have all the power
What is a patriarchy?
This is called "The Cradle of Civilization" and is the area that made up Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Egypt tombs of the pharaoh were filled with items from everyday life because they believed they would need them in this.
What is the afterlife?
Lower Egypt is in the North and Upper Egypt is in the south because the Nile does this.
What is flows North?
This was the system of writing used in Egypt.
What is Hieroglyphics?