Mesopotamian Territory and Peoples
Mesopotamia occupied the space between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This form of writing used a stylus to imprint wedge-shaped marks into soft clay tablets.
What is cuneiform writing?
This river made life possible for Ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
This was the title given to Egyptian kings.
This is the name of the god of the sun.
Who was Amun-Ra?
These peoples were the founders of Mesopotamian civilization in 3500 BCE.
Who were the Sumerians?
This legal code written by the Mesopotamians was one of the most important t pieces of cuneiform writing.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
Independent cities were governed by this type of leader.
Nomarchs or local leaders.
This class included the pharaoh, his family, the nobility and priests. All of them owned large areas of land.
Who were the Upper Class?
This is the name of the goddess of love, happiness, and music
Who is Hathor?
This person was the leader of the city state in the Sumerian age, and was the high civil and religious authority.
What was the ensign or priest-prince?
Temples in Mesopotamia constructed by Sumerians often had these terraced towers.
What are Ziggurats?
This King unified Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE.
Wealthy merchants, specialized craftsmen and scribes made up this class of Egyptian society.
Who were the middle class?
Goddess of fertility and wife of Osiris
Who is Isis?
This group, including merchants, civil servants, important scribes in its middle group, and farmers and craftsmen in its lower group, were free citizens with their own possessions.
Akkadians, Assyrians, and Persians used these to paint, emboss, and decorate their palace walls.
What are glazed ceramics?
This historical period of Egypt between 3100-2181 BCE was when the large pyramids were built in Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaure.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Who were the lower class?
What was the Judgement of Osiris?
This Mesopotamian deity was god of the sky and father of the other gods.
Who was Anu?
This is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, built in Ancient Babylon.
What were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
During this period between 715-31 BCE Egypt fell into decline and was dominated by foreigners, like the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks.
What was the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
This group was mainly made of foreigners, and although rare, were the most disadvantaged group of Ancient Egypt?
What are slaves?
This book developed by Egyptian priests was designed to help the dead on their journey to the afterlife.
What was the Book of the Dead?