Categories/Geography
What is does Mesopotamia mean?
What is Between Rivers
What is the wheel?
What is it allowed the Mesopotamians to transport people and heavy objects over long distances in a shorter amount of time
What is at the top of the social structure?
Who is the Pharaoh
Akhenaten
What is he changed the religion from polytheistic to monotheistic
How did Hammurabi’s Code enforce a social hierarchy in Babylonian society?
What is the punishments were based on social classes. People with more power had less severe punishments.
Who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who is Menes/Narmer
What is are Laws?
What is the Mesopotamian kings create law codes to maintain justice and order in their civilizations
WHat is at the bottom of the socal strucure?
What are farmers, severents, slaves
Ramses II
What is He fought in the Hittites in the Battle of Kadesh
Explain the purpose of Hammurabi’s Code.
What is it create united laws, order, justice, and safety
What rivers were vital to the region of Mesopotamia?
What is Tigris and Euphrates
What is Literature
What is while the Sumerians originally invented cuneiform to keep track of business records.
What are scribes and craftsmen?
What are people who wrote the products.
How is Narmer often regarded in relation to Egypt’s pharaohs?
What is he considered the first pharaoh
If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house.
What is True
What modern-day nations can be found in Mesopotamia?
What is Iraq, Iran
What is Writing?
What is the Sumerians created cuneiform, a system of triangle-shaped writing that was imprinted on clay tablets using a reed stylus.
What does GRAPES represent in a civilization?
What is Geography,Religion,Achievements,Political systems, Economy, Social structure/class
Tutankhamen
what is he was the youngest pharaoh who died young, brought polytheism back
Hammurabi code was the third written legal code.
what is False, it was the first legal written code.
Where was Egypt located? On what river?
What is The Nile River in Africa surrounded by deserts.
What are Musical Instruments?
Music has been an important part of many cultures. Drums, lyres, reed pipes, and tambourines were commonly used.
What were the 8 steps of mummification?
Purify the body by washing with the Nile River
Remove the internal organs
Discard the brain
Leave the body to dry
Stuff the body with sawdust
Wrap the body in linen
Add amulets
Say a prayer over the body
Hatshepsut
what is she was the most well-known female pharaoh
If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
what is True