Vocabulary
Old Stone Age
What is Paleolithic?
He created a legal code with 282 laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
What is Egypt?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Nomads from this time period learned how to make fire.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
A system that supplies dry land with water.
What is irrigation
These people were the first to make bronze.
Who were the Sumerians?
Hammurabi ruled over this place.
What is Babylon?
It was easy for the Egyptians to learn what the Nile River would flood because...
What is seasonal (or patterned) flooding?
Bronze is a combination of these two metals.
What are tin and copper?
A government of religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
A female Egyptian pharaoh
Who was Hatshepsut?
This was the first empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
After rivers flooded, this was left behind on riverbanks.
What is silt?
Egyptians made paper out of this plant.
What is papyrus?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks in soft clay.
What is cuneiform?
This pharaoh restored (brought back) polytheism after Akhenaten tried to change Egypt's religion.
Who was King Tutankhamen?
New Babylonian Empire
Chaldean Empire
The White Nile began here.
What is central Africa?
The first medical records were written by this group of people.
What are Egyptians?
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
What is a province?
He created one of the world's first libraries.
Who was Ashurbanipal?
These three places conquered the Egyptian Empire. (name one)
Libyans
Kushites
Assyrians
The Blue Nile began here.
What is Eastern Africa?
Egyptians first the first two invent a calendar with this many days, months, and seasons.
What are 365 days, 12 months, and 3 seasons?