Name for a government led by religious leaders.
What is a Theocracy?
Define Job Specialization & provide an example
What is when people focus on doing just one job - blacksmith, miller.
Most important god of the Egyptians.
Who is Ra?
What is Cuneiform?
Major rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
The term that means the belief in multiple gods.
What is Polytheism?
Define Record Keeping & provide an example
What is the need to record important laws and events - Hammurabi's Code or the Rosetta Stone
Identify 3 Scientific advancements or inventions of the Egyptians
What are the 365 day/12 month calendar, Geometry, the pyramids, mummification techniques
What is the first known city in history?
Greatest king of Babylon
Who was Hammurabi?
The first professional record-keepers.
What are scribes?
Define Advanced Technology & provide an example
What is new techniques and inventions that made jobs easier - steel plow, sail, wheel
The first king to unify upper and lower Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
Modern day location of Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
Oldest known Epic poem
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
What we call the period of time before writing was invented.
What is Prehistory?
Describe Advanced Cities & provide an example
What is major trade and religious centers with large populations - Ur, Omaha
This was the key to deciphering hieroglyphs, it contained hieroglyphs, Greek, and Demotic languages on it.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Name for the step pyramid located at Ur.
What is a ziggurat?
One of the first major inventions in metal work.
What is Bronze?
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India all have this physical characteristic in common.
What is they all had major rivers?
Describe Complex Institutions & provide an example
What is evidence that shows the role of government (law) in organizing and protecting, and religion in regulating behavior? ex. Hammurabi's Code, Pharaoh
Purpose of the pyramids
What is to provide for the pharaohs in the after world.
The capital city of Sumeria
What is Ur?
First codification of written law in history.
What is Hammurabi's Code?