Geography
What CONTINENT do we live in?
North America
What do we call the first groups of humans who hunted animals and collected plants for food?
Hunter-gatherers
What are the two rivers of Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is the river Egyptians created their civilization around?
The Nile River
What is Osiris the god of?
God of the Underworld
Name the four cardinal directions.
North, South, East, and West
What is a time of freezing weather called?
Ice Age
Who was the King who invented the first set of laws?
King Hammurabi
What continent is Egypt in?
Africa
What is Ra the god of?
God of the Sun and creation
What modern day country is Mesopotamia?
Iran
What continent did the first people live on?
Africa
What is the FIRST system of writing called?
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
What is Isis the Goddess of?
Goddess of love, motherhood, and fertility
What body of water does the Nile River feed into?
The Mediterranean Sea
What are the THREE basic needs of life?
Food/ water, clothing, shelter
What is ONE invention from the Sumerians?
The wheel, cuneiform, irrigation, the clock, the calendar...
What very famous building was built under Pharaoh Khufu's rule?
The Great Pyramids of Giza
God of the sky, war, and hunting
What Sea is to the EAST of Egypt?
The Red Sea
Name TWO of the three parts of the stone age.
The Paleolithic Era, the Mesolithic Era, and the Neolithic Era
What did King Nebuchadnezzar build for his wife?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What was the discovery that helped decode hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone
What is Geb god of?
God of the Earth