Africa
Mesopotamia
Religion
Geography
Achievements
100
In which direction does the Nile flow
What is North
100
What did the Sumerians build to stop flooding in the crops
What is canals
100
Sumerians and Egyptians practiced what religious type of worship?
What is polytheism.
100
What two rivers ran through Mesopotamia
What is the Euphrates and the Tigris
100
What form of writing did the Sumerians invent
What is cuneiform
200
What is the capital of Upper Egypt
What is Thebes
200
What was the Phoenicians main trading resource
What is cedar trees
200
Whom did the Sumerians rely on to gain the gods' favor?
What are priests.
200
Phoenicia is located on the coast of what body of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea
200
What writing form did the Phoenicians invent
What is the alphabet
300
What is one enclave country in Africa
What is Lesthoto or Swaziland
300
What does Mesopotamia mean
What is the land between two rivers
300
What was the soul that the Egyptians believed was part of the body and went into the afterlife after a person died?
What is the ka
300
What did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers bring to the land during floods
What is silt
300
The Hittite's master building in ironwork helped them build what for battle
What is stronger weapons
400
What is the name for the coffin that Egyptians buried mummies in?
What is sarcophagus
400
What was the name of the 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of the daily life
What is Hammurabi's Code
400
Among the gods that the Sumerians worshiped, Enlil was the god of what
What is air
400
What two large bodies of water border the Fertile Cresent
What are the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
400
The Sumerians were the first people in Mesopotamia to build large pyramid shaped temples called what
What is ziggurat
500
What were the workers that worked on the pyramids paid in
What is grain
500
Who was the most famous Chaldean King
What is Nebuchadnezzar
500
Nanna, the protecting god of Ur, is the god of what?
What is the moon
500
What three physical features border the Fertile Cresent (name two)
What are the Syrian Desert, the Taurus Mountains, or the Zagros Mountains.
500
What was the title of the epic that the Sumerians wrote about the legendary Sumerian king?
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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