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The creator of the gods and Egypt.
Who was Atum?
The most important river to the Egyptians for economical and warfare reasons.
What is the Nile River?
One of the most famous Egyptian rulers, but only because of his death.
Who was Tutankhamen?
Advancements in math.
What were pyramids and obelisks?
Writing, the wheel, proper religion, the calendar, and the first ever civilization we know of.
What were Mesopotamians' great achievements?
The god of the Underworld
Who was Osiris?
Warfare purposes to block out intruders.
What was the desert surrounding Egypt useful for?
This pharaoh brought both Lower and Upper Egypt together.
Who was Ramses the Great?
Advancements in architecture.
What were obelisks and giant tombs, pyramids, and shrines for the gods?
The Euphrates and Tigris river.
What two rivers was Mesopotamia situated between?
The god of pregnancy and childbirth, mother of Horus.
Who was Isis?
Places in deserts with water, bountiful wildlife, and greenery.
What were oasis?
This queen was the granddaughter of Alexander the Great, and created many new trades and made Egypt and made it's trade prosperous.
Who was Arsinoe?
Made rulers, and some kind of democracy.
What advancements in government did the ancient Egyptians make?
This system was used to take water far away from the rivers and to farmland, making it possible to have many more farms than they did before.
What was irrigation?
A goddess with the head of a wasp and the body of a hippo.
Who was Ahti?
Sand formations.
What are sand dunes?
This queen married two Romans, Antony and Julius Caesar. She had three children, and died of poison.
Who was Cleopatra?
They were the ones who first started this practice, and they figured out how to embalm humans.
What advancement in preservation of people did the Egyptians make?
Cuneiform was the first form of writing, created by Mesopotamians.
What was their most important development?
An early goddess, usually depicted as a cat, who represented protection from venomous animals and justice/execution.
Who was Mafdet?
This sea is located north of Egypt and the Red Sea.
Where is the Black Sea?
This fourth dynasty pharaoh created the Pyramid of Giza.
Who was Khufu?
They created many symbols and a complex alphabet to tell stories and record on goings with their hieroglyphics.
What advancements and achievements in writing did the Ancient Egyptians make?
Sumer was a very prosperous city with government, laws, trade, and writing.
What was the first urban civilization?