RIVERS & GEOGRAPHY
THIS RIVER FLOWS FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH.
THE NILE.
THE RULERS OF EGYPT WERE CALLED THIS.
PHAROAHS.
A GIANT TRIANGLE SHAPED TOMB.
PYRAMID.
MESOPOTAMIANS WROTE UNSING THIS WEDGE-SHAPED WRITNG SYSTEM.
CUNEIFORM
THE AFTERLIFE.
THIS MESOPOTAMIA RIVER SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A LARGE ORANGE CAT.
THE TIGRIS.
IN EGYPT, HE WAS KNOWN AS THE BOY KING.
KING TUT.
THIS MESOPOTAMIA PYRAMID HAD STEPS.
ZIGGURAT.
BONUS PRIZE QUESTION: EGYPTIANS WROTE USING THIS PICTURE BASED WRITING SYSTEM.
HIEROGLYPHICS.
MESOPOTAMIANS USED CANALS AND DITCHES TO MOVE WATER TO THEIR CROPS. WHAT IS THIS SYSTEM CALLED?
IRRIGATION.
THE NILE RIVER FLOWS THROUGH THIS DESERT.
THE SAHARA.
THIS MESOPOTAMIAN KING CREATED ONE OF THE FIRST WRITTEN LAW CODES.
THE LARGEST PYRAMID IN EGYPT WAS BUILT FOR THIS PHARAOH.
KHUFU.
THIS SET OF 282 LAWS INCLUDED "AN EYE FOR AN EYE".
CODE OF HAMMURABI.
THIS PROCESS IS USED TO PRESERVE HUMAN REMAINS FOR A LONG TIME. THEY'VE EVEN MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT.
MUMMIFICATION.
THE YEARLY FLOODING OF THE NILE LEFT BEHIND THIS TYPE OF SOIL.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SUN GOD OF EGYPT?
RA.
UNLIKE PYRAMIDS, ZIGGURATS WERE BUILT FOR THIS PURPOSE.
WORSHIPPING GODS.
EGYPTIANS WROTE ON THIS PAPER LIKE MATERIAL MADE FROM PLANTS.
PAPYRUS.
THIS IS THE OLDEST KNOWN STORY IN THE WORLD.
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FERTILE AREA AT THE END OF THE NILE RIVER?
THE DELTA.
THIS KING OF BABYLON CREATED THE HANGING GARDENS.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
THIS STATUE HAS THE BODY OF A LION AND THE HEAD OF A PHARAOH.
THE SPHYNX.
THIS ROUND INVENTION, FIRST MADE BY MESOPOTAMIANS, ASSISTED IN TRANSPORTATION.
THE WHEEL.
THE EGYPTIANS INVENTED THIS SPECIAL TYPE OF MAKEUP TO PROTECT THEIR EYES FROM THE SUN. SOPHIA HAS IT IN HER MAKEUP KIT RIGHT NOW AS MR. T IS READING THIS QUESTION.
EYELINER.