History & Early People
True or False - History is the study of the past.
What is true?
The source of ancient Egypt’s wealth and prosperity.
Built as tombs to house the mummies of dead pharaoh.
What are pyramids?
An ancient Egyptian forms of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
Who is Abraham?
People who study the past using written records like letters scrolls, and writing on monuments.
Who are historians?
Ancient Egypt was divided into these two countries.
What are Upper & Lower Egypt?
The ancient Egyptians believed you need your body to live in the afterlife, so Pharaohs and rich people’s bodies were preserved through this process.
What is mummification?
Egyptians made their first paper from this.
Was sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers and became second in power only to Pharoah.
Who is Joseph?
The first people in the Fertile Crescent. They move constantly, foraging for food and hunting wild animals.
United Upper and Lower Egypt beginning the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
The tombs of pharaohs and rich Egyptians were filled with food, clothing, jewelry, furniture, games, and even boats so they would have them for this.
What is the afterlife?
The Sumerians developed a form of writing with a reed on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
Abraham's wife, who gave birth to Isaac in her old age.
Who is Sarah?
Means “Between rivers”.
What is Mesopotamia?
The Nile River begins at Lake Victoria in central Africa and travels over 4000 miles until it empties into this body of water.
The largest pyramids that took 50.000 people over 20 years to build.
What is Giza?
The first Sumerian dictator who made one country out of the many city-states.
Who is Sargon?
The king of Babylonia in ancient Mesopotamia who created the first written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The area of Mesopotamia, extending from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers along the Mediterranean Sea to northern Egypt.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The belief in many gods practiced by the people of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What is polytheism?
Special jars which housed the organs of the dead pharaohs.
What are canopic jars?
The name of the new Empire Sargon built from many conquered city states.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
Discovered many important things like cuneiform, the wheel, written law, the 12-month calendar, astronomy, geometry, mud bricks, the plow, agriculture and irrigation (the shaduf, canals, levees), the sailboat, the chariot, map making, domestication of animals, bronze, literature, board games, and soap.