Cities
Rulers
Geography
Art & Artifacts
Mixed Bag
100
Different land areas and people under the same ruler.
What is an empire?
100
His tomb was not discovered by archeologists until 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
100
A fertile mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
100
These were built tall to honor the gods.
What are ziggurats?
100
A long poem that tells the story of a hero.
What is an epic?
200
The area containing a city and the countryside around it.
What is a city-state?
200
He is considered the last great Egyptian pharaoh.
Who is Ramses II?
200
Mesopotamians built these to control the flows of the rivers.
What are canals?
200
This Egyptian technique helped to prepare the body for the afterlife.
What is embalming.
200
Religion that worships multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
300
This city was also called the City of the Dead.
What is Cairo?
300
This King of Uruk was a legendary in Sumerian literature.
What is Gilgamesh?
300
This agricultural technique helped Mesopotamia to produce food surpluses.
What is irrigation?
300
The oldest known written language.
What is cuneiform?
300
A society in which people are divided by rank and class.
What is a social hierarchy?
400
Menes led an invasion, then married a princess in order to unify these two regions.
What are Upper and Lower Egypt?
400
This queen increased trade in Egypt and supported the arts and architecture.
Who is Queen Hatshepsut?
400
The arc of rich farmland that stretches across Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
This artifact was instrumental in helping to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
They used cuneiform to keep track of items that people traded.
Who are scribes?
500
The first pharaoh built this capital city at the southern tip of the Nile Delta.
What is Memphis?
500
This set of 282 laws addressed nearly every part of daily life in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's code?
500
These two rivers supported the early civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigres and the Euphrates rivers?
500
Phoenician traders contributed to the evolution of writing by creating this.
What is an alphabet?
500
These people performed religious ceremonies, and had great status in Egypt and Sumeria.
Who are priests?
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