Vocab words
Person who regularly moves from place to place
what is a nomad
Babylonian king who wrote a code of laws
Who is Hammurabi
Mesopotamia's climate was
what is hot and dry
A line of rules that passes from father to son is a
How were Egypt and Mesopotamia similar?
What is writing systems, located on a river, and technological advances
Method of bringing water from a place that has it to a place that does not have it
Area of fertile soil at the mouth of the Nile River
what is the Nile Delta
the SUMERIAN writing system was
what is CUNEIFORM
the chief god of the Egyptians was
Re
How many plagues are there in the Prince of Egypt?
what is 10 plagues
To tame animals and plants for human use
what is to domesticate
Ruled over Egypt during the time of Moses
Ramses II
the center of the Chaldean empire was
what is Babylon
The woman pharaoh who concentrated on building the Egyptian economy was
who was Hatshepsut
what were the characteristics of people who lived in the Neolithic period
what is farming revolution and invented the first writing system
System of Egyptian writing made up of picture symbols
what is hieroglyphics
Steep rapids in Nile River
what is cataracts
what was the legal code that covered most areas of life
what is code of Hammurabi
Today we call it Sudan. The ancient Egyptians called it
what is nubia
what were the characteristics of people who lived in the Paleolithic period?
hunter gatherers, no writing system
Complex society with cities, government, art, religion, and a writing system
what is a civilization
What Kingdom did The Prince of Egypt take place during? Which Pharaoh helps us know this?
What is the New Kingdom? Who is Rameses II?
a group of traveling merchants is called a
what is a caravan
The Kushites moved their capital to Meroë to be close to
who are the Egyptians
What is the first plague shown in the prince of Egypt?
what is turning the water from the river into blood?