Geography
The largest river in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Created a code of 282 laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
A WAY OF SUPPLYING WATER TO AN AREA OF LAND.
What is irrigation?
This archeological discovery enabled us to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Began to grow as farmers produced surplus food to feed a growing population.
What is a city?
The two main rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Best known because the Great Pyramid was built in his honor.
Who is Khufu?
Mesopotamian pyramids that were used as temples.
What is a Ziggurat?
Means "the land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
Began because no individual could master all the skills to support a civilization.
What is job specialization?
The fertile land at the mouth of the Nile River.
What is the Nile Delta?
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
Great invention of the Sumerians which is still used in transportation today.
What is the wheel?
A legendary king whose life is described in an epic poem.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Needed to oversee projects, collect taxes and create laws.
What is organized government?
Corresponds mostly to today's Iraq, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey
What is Mesopotamia?
Egyptians believed they were gods.
What are Pharaohs?
Style of writing using wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Believing in many gods or deities.
What is polytheistic?
This was created because records were needed to keep accounts on trade goods and food storage.
What is writing?
The Nile River empties into this.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A powerful female pharaoh and daughter of King Thutmose I, who married her half-brother Thutmose II.
Who was Hatshepsut?
Used to write on before paper.
What is papyrus?
At the top of the Egyptian social pyramid.
Who are pharaohs?
Included roads, canals and bridges, built to aid and benefit the community.
What are public works?