The Fertile Crescent
Main temple of the Sumerians
Ziggurat
Where was Sumer located
Mesopotamia
What was the use of battering ram
Had wheels and pounded the city walls
In the Egyptian social classes what is below to scribes
Peasants and farmers
Egyptians did not use a wheel to place blocks in the pyramid. What did they use
Sleds and Rollers
Sumerians downfall
Wealth
King who united the cities of Sumer
Hammurabi
Skilled workers
Artisans
Where do the Blue and White Nile meet
Khartoum
Two main sources of the Nile
Blue and White Nile
Scribes combined symbols to make groups or wedges and lines
Cuneiform
Mesopotamia lies between two rivers, what are the name of the rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
Why did people believe the West was the home of the dead
Believed that Amon-Re was born each morning in the East and died each evening in the West.
System of Pictorial writing
Hieroglyphics
Who united Upper and Lower Egypt and began the first dynasty
Menes
Downfall of Babylonia
Shrunk and was destroyed
Downfall of Assyrians
Conquered peoples attempted a number of rebellions against Assyrian rule. They finally defeated them
Who created laws for people follow and was based "an eye for an eye"
Hammurabi
Rulers lost control of the country to foreign invaders
Who advanced far east as the Euphrates River and South into Nubia. Who led his army against Syria and Phoenicia
Thutmose III
Tigris and Euphrates provided a material that they used for writing
Clay
Who seized Israel in 772 when it was split with Judah
Assyrians
Led his people to a belief of one God
Abraham
Egypt's unity crumbled when governors began to challenge the power of the pharaohs. What period of Egypt is it
Old Kingdom
The name of the vast desert of that surrounds Egypt
Sahara Desert