The Earliest People
A person who wanders or roams about.
What is a nomad?
This river was extremely important to the Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
This is a word that means "the land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
The early Egyptians wrote with pictures called by this name.
What is hieroglyphics?
The rich soil and good weather made this moon like place a great place to live.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the what the pyramids are made out of.
What is stone?
This is the name for the early people who lived in the land between two rivers.
What are Sumerians?
The Sumerians wrote with marks called by this name.
What is cuneiform?
The nomads typically lived in this type of home.
What are tents?
This is a big stone coffin inside a Pharoah's burial chamber.
What is a sarcophagus?
This is the name used for a government in which a ruler uses his or her army to force the people to obey him or her.
What is a military dictatorship?
The Egyptians learned to make this type of paper out of reeds .
What is papyrus?
When the food and water ran out, what did the people do?
What is moved?
These types of jars were used to store mummies organs.
What is a canopic jar?
This is the name of the man who made all the cities between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers into one country by using unjust force.
Who is Sargon?
Name two materials the earliest people used to write messages on.
What are stone tablets and clay tablets?
Early farmers invented this machine to get water to their crops.
What is a shaduf?
Who was the first Pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Pharaoh Narmer
This is the name of the very first empire in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Akkadia?
Tell of one downside to writing on papyrus versus clay or stone
It did not last long