Mesopotamian Geography & Land
The first ancient civilization that was established in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The direction the Nile River flows.
South to North
The Egyptian God of the Underworld.
Who is Osiris?
One level beneath a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt.
What is the vizier?
Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in this year.
What is 27 BCE?
Mesopotamia was made up of these before the creation of the Babylonian Kingdom.
What are city-states?
The Hyksos are believed to have taken power in this city first, kicking off their invasion of Egypt.
What is Memphis?
The Mother of All Ancient Egypt.
Who is Isis?
One level below the vizier and one level above doctors in Ancient Egypt.
Who are high priests?
Augustus became the _______ of the ______ in _____.
Emperor, Roman Empire, 27 BCE
Due to the flooding of the rivers, the early peoples of Mesopotamia created this system.
What are irrigation systems?
This natural phenomenon is a reason that all three kingdoms of Egypt collapsed.
What is drought?
The mother of Anubis.
Who is Nephthys?
True or False
In Babylon, slaves could conduct their own business and could eventually purchase their freedom from their masters.
True.
__________________ was the leader of the _____________ Empire for the Greeks.
(HINT: This was on your slide of Cleopatra)
Alexander the Great, Macedonian
What are ziggurats?
The Canal of the Pharaohs connected these two geographical points.
What are the Nile River and the Red Sea?
Unknown creature.
Who is Set?
True or false.
There was no social mobility in either ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia.
False.
Who were the Ptolemics?
(What were they?)
Macedonian Greeks
Why was Mesopotamia so easily conquered by invaders?
Mesopotamia was not a united people but rather a group of city-states that did not always assist each other during times of warfare.
The four geographical barriers of Ancient Egypt and their compass locations.
North - the Med Sea
South - Ethiopian Highlands
East - the Red Sea
West - the Sahara Desert
Egyptian God of Embalming.
Who is Anubis?
What are the official names of the three social classes from ancient Mesopotamia?
Mushkinu, Wardu, Amelu
The ______ ___ ______ took place in the country of _______ in the year _______, and was a turning point battle between _______ and _______.
The Battle of Actium, Greece, 31 BCE, Egypt & Rome