TIME
SUMER
EGYPT
GEOGRAPHY
DEFINITIONS
RANDOM
100
This time period was from 2,500,000 B.C.E. - 8,000 B.C.E.
What is the Paleothic Age OR what is the Old Stone Age?
100
The Sumerians believed in many Gods and, therefore, they were considered:
What is polytheistic?
100
The Egyptian civilization owes its existence to this river.
What is the Nile River?
100
Egypt is on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The shared values, beliefs, customs and religion of a group of people.
What is culture?
100
This structure stands 449 feet tall and is the largest stone structure in human history.
What is the Great Pyramid at Giza?
200
This age ran from roughly 8,000 B.C.E. - 3,000 B.C.E.
What is the Neolithic Age OR what is the NEW STONE AGE?
200
The Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia, between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
The name of this part of a river, as it flows out into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
200
The ancient civilization of Sumer was on this continent.
What is Asia?
200
An advanced state of technological and cultural development.
What is civilization?
200
This percentage of Sumerian society was devoted to farming the surrounding land.
What is 90%?
300
The approximate year in which the Step Pyramid at Saqqara was built.
What is 2,660 B.C.E.?
300
This is the name of the temples with staircases on the outsides, built by the Sumerians.
What are ziggurats?
300
This is the name of the largest Egyptian pyramid, still standing 4,500 years later.
What is the Great Pyramid at Giza?
300
The land the Sumerians settled in was called the land between two rivers. The name of the land was:
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The science of farming.
What is agriculture?
300
The Egyptian builder/architect who designed the Step Pyramid at Saqqara.
Who is IMHOTEP?
400
The year 0 is roughly associated with the birth of this person.
Who is Jesus Christ?
400
The name of the Sumerians clay writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
The name of the stone coffin in which mummies were placed, if they had money to afford their construction.
What is a sarcophagus?
400
The name of the waterfalls along the Nile that prevented invaders from impacting their civilization.
What are cataracts?
400
The belief in a single higher power, or God.
What is Monotheism?
400
Human civilization is said to have begun once humans went from being hunter-gatherers to learning how to do this to produce food.
What is farm?
500
The first primitive bipedal humans on Earth showed up this long ago. 
What is 6,000,000 - 7,000,000 years ago?
500
The Sumerians biggest city was spelled using only two letters. This is the name of the city.
What is Ur?
500
The paper Egyptians used to write was: 
What is Papyrus?
500
The side of the Nile River that pyramids were built on.
What is the west, to correspond with the setting sun?
500
The name for the four sided stone structures Egyptians built as burial chambers before they built pyramids.
What are Mastabas?
500
The name of the sea that the Nile River empties into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?