What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between Rivers
What does cuneiform mean?
Scratching a wet tablet with a reed pen.
What is a City-State?
It is a self governing city
It was a tall, flat pyramid made of mud bricks.
ziggurat
The believe in many gods and goddesses is called.
Polytheism
He was a famous king from Kish.
Sargon
It is the process of of embalming a pharaoh
Mummification
He wanted to find eternal life.
Gilgamesh
He was a king from the southern part of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi
She was a Sumerian priestess.
Endeduana
Why were rivers important to any civilization?
To water crops and animals, for personal use, to drink
What are the names of the two rivers that pass through Mesopotamia?
Tigris, Euphrates
What is a scribe?
An official writer
He created the great pyramid of Giza
Kufu
What is a drought?
Along period without water.
It is a systems of canals that bring water from a river to fields of crops.
Irrigation system
It is originally from Australia
Boomerang
What were early people called?
Hunter gatherers
It is another word for New Stone Age.
Neolithic Era
It is considered to be one of the world's first city.
Catal Huyuk
What kind of materials were used by early people to make their tools and weapons?
Stone, wood, bone
It is the process of sharpening rocks.
Flaking
He is the greatest teacher of all times. There is no one like him in the world let alone in the Universe.
Mr. Inestroza
Where did the fist humans appear.
In Africa
It is another word for Paleolithic Era.
Old Stone Age