Vocabulary
imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of another animal or human
Sphinx
What the Sumerians wrote on?
Clay Tablet
Improved quality and life spans of people and was improved thanks to the writing system.
Medicine
Another word for "Land between two rivers"
Mesopotamia
the rulers of ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
Paper like thing Egyptians wrote on
Papyrus
Made traveling and movement faster
The Wheel
Name of the two rivers on either side of Sumeria
Tigris and Euphrates
Object that provided the same message in hieroglyphics and two other languages.
Rosetta Stone
Sumerian Writing System
Cuneiform
Was used to improve agriculture (Attached to an animal and wheels)
Plow
Soil that allows crops to grow more effectively is ___________
fertile
Egyptian form of writing
hieroglyphics
Egyptian Writing System
Hieroglyphics
Large triangle shaped monuments still in existence today
Pyramids
Mineral that makes the soil more fertile
Silt
Desert / Ocean / Mountains are all examples of this
natural barrier
What were the benefits of the writing System in Egypt and Sumeria?
Able to record medical knowledge and spread ideas.
Pyramid like monuments in Sumeria
Ziggurats
Belief in Many gods
Polytheism