Location/Rivers
Known as the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia
The reason ziggurats were tall
What is to honor the gods
How civilzations in Egypt developed
What is farms grew into villages then cities
Worship of many gods
What is polytheism
What is the Old Kingdom
The Nile breaks off into two parts called?
What is Blue and White
This was the first civilization of Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumerians
The supreme god for the Egyptians
Who is Ra?
Who are Pharoahs
To preserve the body for the soul can stay in the after life
What is mummification
Two ways the flooding of the Nile affected the economy of Egypt.
What are coating the land with silt and making it ideal for farming
An advance form of culture
The reason Egypt conquered Kush
What is Kush was getting powerful, to prevent them from attacking Egypt.
The suprem god and judge of the Dead
What is Osiris
He restored the old practices/ways of worship?
Who was King Tut
Names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
The mesopotamia king that wrote a code of laws
Who is Hammurabi
Describes the relationship between Egypt and Kush
What is started off neighbors/trading, but Egypt thought Kush was too powerful and began fighting- turned into enemies.
Pharahos received advice from these people?
Who were priests
Who are the Romans
A way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation
The reason Mesopotamia is an ideal place for a civilization to develop. (2 reasons)
What is access to 2 rivers, fertile land, natural barriers (rivers, desert), access to trade, etc.
Ancient Egyptian History is broken down into these three periods?
Old kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom
Who are the Kushites?