Egypt
What was the ruler of Egypt called?
Pharaoh
Name the two rivers of Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
What type of crops were grown in India?
Wheat, rice, cotton, opium
Who were the Hebrews?
A small early civilization that developed the idea of a monotheistic faith to provide the foundation of modern Judaism
What are Nomads?
People who do not have a permanent home and travel in order to find food, often following animals
Describe the Gift of the Nile
The Nile River would flood every October and deposit fertile mud along the river bank, which enabled Egyptians to grow crops
What were the three groups of people who lived in Mesopotamia?
Sumerians, Babylonians, Akkadians
To what river valley did the Aryan people migrate?
Indus River Valley
Who was the founder of Judaism?
Abraham
The Bantu people were a sedentary civilization. What does that mean?
The Bantu were not nomads. They practiced agriculture and lived in cities.
What is mummification?
The process of preserving the body of a pharaoh after his or her death. The organs were removed from the body and the body was wrapped in cloth before being placed in a tomb inside the pyramids.
What was the type of writing used in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
Define Dynasty
A family that rules over a country or area for an extended period of time where rule is passed from parent to child
What is the Holy Book of the Jewish religion?
The Torah
Daily Double: What is it called within the Christian Bible?
What natural resources did the Olmec people have large deposits of?
Salt, tar, wood, rubber, clay
What was the Ancient Egyptian form of writing called? What did it look like?
Hieroglyphics: pictures
Hieratic: cursive
Stepped temples in Ancient Mesopotamia that were used to worship the gods
Define Mandate of Heaven
The idea that the ruler of China was chosen by the gods
What was the covenant between God and Abraham?
Abraham's descendants would be God's chosen people and a great nation if Abraham agreed to worship Yahweh alone
This high mound of earthen clay could have been the tomb of an Olmec ruler and was center of the Olmec religion. What was it called?
The Great Pyramid
Upper Egypt was located in the ____________.
Lower Egypt was located in the ____________.
Why was this?
Upper: south
Lower: north
The regions of Egypt were named based on the flow of the Nile which runs south to north, so upstream was south of downstream.
Who was Hammurabi and what did he create?
He was the king of the Babylonians and created Hammurabi's code which was the laws for the Babylonians
The rivers of China would flood without warning and could destroy towns and buildings that were along the shore
Why was Moses an important figure in Judaism?
What affect did the Bantu migration have on Africa?
The Bantu spread their technologies (iron tools) and knowledge (agriculture) across Africa