Mesopotamia
This river valley was home to one of the world's first civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
This river was the main source of life for Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The belief in more than 1 god
What is polytheism?
Originally territory of the Canaanites. Contains modern day Israel/Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon.
What is the Levant?
Both civilizations developed near rivers because rivers provided water for this important activity.
What is farming/agriculture?
Mesopotamia was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This was the title given to the ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
A set of instructions and spells for guiding the dead through the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?
The belief in only 1 god.
What is the Monotheism?
A system that ranks people or groups based on power, status, wealth, or importance (shaped like a pyramid with kings on top and slaves on the bottom.)
What is a social hierarchy?
The early civilizations were made up of small, individual "towns" called...
What is a city-state?
Egyptians used this picture-based writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
The Egyptian god often shown with the head of a falcon.
Who is Horus?
The holy text for Jewish people (their name for the Old Testament in the Christian Bible)
What is the Torah?
Mesopotamia was located in the Middle East (Afro-Eurasia), while Egypt was located on this continent.
What is Africa?
This Mesopotamian king created one of the earliest written sets of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
These giant structures were built as tombs for Egyptian rulers during the Old Kingdom (~2600 BCE)
What are pyramids?
Mesopotamians built these large stepped temples to honor their gods.
What are ziggurats?
Who is Abraham?
The most important resource for the world's earliest civilizations.
What are rivers?
This writing system used wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
This process was used to preserve a dead person's body.
What is mummification?
King of the Egyptian Gods and God of the Sun
Who is Ra/Amun-Ra
Hammurabi's famous achievement was creating this organized collection of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This civilization, which began in Mesopotamia, is considered the oldest in the world.
What is Sumer?