Vocabulary
Landforms such as mountains, canyons, rivers, and lakes
geographic features
Supply of water to crops
irrigation
Why was the Nile River so important
allowed the people to grow crops
Why did the ancient Egyptians build the sphinx
to resurrect the Pharoah
What was the first set of written laws
Hammurabi's Code
Farm tool used to prepare land for planting
plow
Land and clay carried by a river and deposited, helping the soil be more fertile
silt
Egyptians life would have been different without the Nile River because
their crops would die because the land would not be fertile without the River
What served as a burial site for Pharaohs and their families
Pyramids of Giza
belief in more than one god
polytheism
A place where people decide to live and build their homes, like a town or a village
society
Temple in ancient Mesopotamia
Ziggurat
The plant that Egyptians used to make paper
papyrus
The form of writing Egyptians used to record information
hieroglyphics
The "divine rulers" of ancient Egypt
Pharoah