Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian History
Mesopotamian History/Egyptian Geography
Ancient Egyptian History
Ancient Egyptian Culture
100
What two rivers make up Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
100
What was the world's first civilization?
The Sumerians
100

What is Hammurabi's Code?

A set of 282 laws that dealt with daily life (or best answer)

100
What did the Egyptians call their king?
A Pharaoh
100
What was wrong with the Egyptian Solar Calendar?
It was missing 6 hours
200
Why was Mesopotamia a perfect place for the world's first civilization? (two answers)
Fresh Water and Fertile Soil
200
Sumerians created the first form of writing, what was it called?
Cuneiform
200
Cyrus the great was the ruler of what empire?
Persia
200
Egyptians had a major surplus of food, what is a surplus?
An amount of food greater than a family needs
200
What was the paper like substance that the Egyptians created?
Papyrus
300
How did Mesopotamia get its fertile soil year after year?
Flood waters brought in fertile soil from upriver.
300

What new metal did the Sumerians invent that was a mixture of copper and tin?

Bronze

300
What do the symbols in an alphabet represent?
A sound
300

What was the interdependent relationship between the Kush and Egypt?

Egypt needed Kush's Gold/Ivory, and Kush needed Egypt's crops

300
What were the pyramids?
Tombs for the pharaohs
400
What major problem did the rivers of Mesopotamia cause?
Flooding that destroyed villages
400
Who was the Akkadian king who created the first empire?
Sargon
400
Part of the Egyptians success was the farming that took place in the Nile delta, what is a delta?
An area of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river
400

What did the Rosetta Stone help us be able to do?

Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics

400
Why did the Egyptian people willingly build the pyramids?
They believed the pharaoh was a god
500
What new technique did the Sumerians create to help bring water to their crops?
Irrigation
500

How did Sargon keep city-states from rebelling against him after he conquered them?

He placed people he was close to in control of the city-state

500
The Egyptian society was shaped like a pyramid, the pharaoh was at the top, under him were the government officials and priests. Who was next on the pyramid?
Scribes, people who could write
500
Who was the female pharaoh who acted like a man to gain the support of her subjects?
Hatshepsut
500

When the Kushite merchants went to other lands and learned about new religions and ways of living, this is an example of what?

Cultural Diffusion

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