Geography
Meaning of Mesopotamia
Land between the rivers
Polytheism and Monotheism
Belief in many gods and belief in one god.
2 achievements of the Ancient Sumerians
Architecture, legal code, the invention of the wheel and plow, developed formal education for kids, developed measurement of time.
These were ruled by kings and made Sumer separated as a civilization.
cities
System of buying and selling without the use of currency (money)
Barter system
In the early Stone Age known as ________ they lived as this to survive.
Name the two rivers between which Mesopotamia is located.
Tigris and Euphrates
Were removed to be put in canopic jars and to help with preservation. One that was thought unnecessary.
Organs, brain
The written form of communication for the Sumerians
King Menes united this nation around 3500 BC
Egypt
v Sumer was known for making these to trade as far out as southern Africa and India.
Wooden Ships
Sumer was only considered a __________, not a nation, and was eventually conquered by the Akkadians.
Civilization
The Egyptian Empire was located along this river and existed in two kingdoms before being united.
Nile River, Upper and Lower Egypt.
Cat, Ibis, & Crocodiles
Sacred animals
Complicated form of writing using hundreds of pictures meaning all or parts of a word.
Hieroglyphs
Egypt had two of these who ruled independently.
Women pharaohs
Sumer developed this system to keep track of time and costs for things in trade.
System of time.
In Egypt there were only 3 levels that knew how to read and write.
Pharaoh, viziers (advisors), high priests, and scribes.
Mesopotamia is part of a larger region that historians call
The Fertile Crescent
Were often a combination of animals and humans.
Egyptian gods
This material was used for cuneiform printing with the help of an angled wooden stylus.
Clay tablet
Changed Egypt from military conquests and tried to institute monotheism.
Amenhotep or Akhenaten
Only used money after this Empire came to invade and conquer.
Persian Empire
Pharaoh, Slaves or servants.
a triangle-shaped landform shaped by the deposition of dirt carried by rivers to a slower or still body of water
How a delta is formed.
Method of burial and ceremony for Ancient Egyptians and why.
Mummification and a belief in a literal afterlife, wanting to take with them what they had when they died.
2 Achievements of Egyptian Empire
Developed writing, made writing material that was easier to transport and store, divided year into 12 months and 365 days, important math formulas and built giant pyramids.
Egypt is separated into these 4 periods.
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, and Late Period
The people of ancient Egypt relied heavily on these 4 practices to remain in power.
Agriculture, trade, labor, and government power.
After finding and developing new metals, this age occurred after the Stone Age and led to many great battles and wars due to more complex weapons.
Bronze Age
For this purpose, ancient peoples settled in the regions near the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates Rivers.
They were easily located near water sources to help develop farming and trade along the rivers.
The pyramids were built by these groups of people for 1 special group of people
Farmers, free workers, and slaves for the pharaoh.
This area is divided by culture and specific ethnicity, often many of them pushed together under political or geographically made borders.
Nation-state
The use of trade throughout the ancient world brought these to different areas.
New ideas, customs, languages, goods, and agricultural products.
In the New Stone Age, known as ________ they began this which helped to develop these.
Neolithic, farming, cities