Physical Geography
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Religions
Muslim Empires
100
The soil of the desert regions of North Africa is very ____.
What is dry?
100
a pyramid-shaped tower built in ancient Mesopotamian city-states.
What is a ziggurat?
100
the ancient Egyptians wrote on this.
What is papyrus?
100
descendants of Abraham became known as ___.
What are Jewish people?
100
a list of the fundamental religious duties of Muslims.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
200
Humans have been ____ for most of their time on earth.
What is hunter-gatherers?
200
someone who kept records for society in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a scribe?
200
the name of kings in Ancient Egypt.
What is Pharaoh?
200
The sacred text of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
200
any government ruled by a religious leader.
What is a theocracy?
300
Methods of ____ are ways of bringing water to dry soil.
What is irrigation?
300
An early emperor of Mesopotamia who set down a system of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Horus.
What is the sky god?
300
Name of the Muslim god.
What is Allah?
300
the Muslim emperor known as "the Lawgiver" to Muslims and "the Magnificent" to Christians.
Who is Suleiman I?
400
True or False. Farmers along the Nile River must use irrigation year-round.
What is False?
400
the first inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
What are the Sumerians?
400
Horus.
What is the sky god?
400
Christianity is based on the life and teachings of ____.
Who is Jesus?
400
a special group of soldiers who were loyal to the sultan from the 1300s to 1826.
What are Janissaries?
500
another name for hunter-gatherer.
What is nomadic?
500
an early, wedge-shaped form of writing developed in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
500
reason why pyramids were built.
What is to serve as the place where kings spent their afterlife?
500
Name a similarity between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
What is they all believe in the same god?
500
Muslim leader who fought on the losing side in WWI.
Who is Sultan Mehmed V?
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