Geography
What rivers made up Mesopotamia?
What type of religion were Mesopotamians and Egyptians?
Polytheistic
What type of government did Mesopotamia and Egypt have?
Theocracy
What social class is usually on the bottom?
Slaves
What type of writing did Mesopotamia use?
Cuneiform
What river was essential to Egypt?
Nile River
What is the pyramid structure in Mesopotamia that was used for religion?
Ziggurat
What is the uniform system of laws that was created in Mesopotamia?
Hammurabi's Code
What social class is on top in Egypt?
Pharaohs
What type of writing did Egypt use?
Hieroglyphics
Which river regularly floods?
Nile
What is the purpose of the pyramids?
Tombs for the pharaohs to reach the afterlife
What is the phrase that best describes Hammurabi's Code?
Eye for an eye
What job was the backbone of the Egyptian economy?
Farmers
How did hieroglyphics get deciphered?
Rosetta Stone
Why did Egyptians call the land "Kemet" (means "black land")?
Due to the silt
Which pharaoh changed the religion from polytheism to monotheism?
Amenhotep
What region did Egypt continually conquer and seize?
Nubia
What rights do women usually possess?
Operate businesses
What was writing used primarily used to record?
Taxes, crops, and trade
Which direction does the Nile River flow?
South to North
What type of religion are the Israelites?
Monotheistic
What caused the decline of kingdoms in Egypt?
Power struggles, internal upheaval, and invasion
Only the higher classes learned
What is the poem about a godlike man who performs heroic deeds?
Epic of Gilgamesh