Indus Valley
This river was the basis of the Indus Valley civilization.
What is the Indus River?
A large, walled-city in Mesopotamia.
What is Uruk?
Name at least 3 social classes in Ancient Egypt.
What are pharaohs, government officials, priests, scribes, artisans, and slaves.
What is a pharaoh?
The largest city in the Indus Valley civilization, known for its irrigation and sewer systems.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
Ancient Mesopotamian society was located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
About 2540 B.C., the Egyptians built the largest and grandest of the pyramids known as the________.
What is the Great Pyramid?
This pharaoh ruled briefly but gained fame because of treasures found buried with him.
Who is Tutankhamen, or King Tut?
a huge, triangular-shaped monument of ancient Egypt built around a tomb built during the Old Kingdom
What is a pyramid?
In contrast to later empires, which conquered their neighbors, the Indus Valley people were largely _____.
What is peaceful?
This set of laws is remembered by the phrase "an eye for an eye."
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The Ancient Egyptian god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun and the sky. Known for being part-falcon, part-man and for his famous "eye."
Who is Horus?
______ could own and pass on property. They could buy and sell goods, make wills, and obtain divorces. Upper-class ______ were in charge of temples and could perform religious ceremonies.
What are women in Ancient Egypt?
system of writing made up of thousands of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?
Why did early civilizations develop near rivers?
What is silt from the flooding rivers made the farmland fertile? (Also: trade, sewage system, irrigation, travel).
Large, pyramid-shaped towers built on top of temples. (Hint: it starts with a "z")
What are ziggurats?
These social classes built the pyramids.
What are peasants and slaves?
God of the dead
Who is Osiris?
The large river along which the Egyptian Civilization developed.
What is the Nile River?
What are 4 common features (or "symptoms") of an early civilization?
Surplus production, specialization of labor, written language, organized religion, centralized government, based near rivers.
Mesopotamia was later conquered and made part of a larger empire by this group.
Who are the Assyrians?
What were pyramids used for?
What are tombs for pharaohs?
The highest god in Ancient Egyptian religion. (Hint: he is the combination of two smaller gods)
Who is Amun-Ra?
The idea that rulers and kings have a right to rule because they are connected to the gods.
What is divine kingship?