Study of Ancient Civilizations
These people study ancient civilizations.
What is an archaeologist?
Egyptians worshipped many _________.
What are gods?
Egyptians believed that the _____________ would be weighed on a special scale when a person reached the afterworld.
What is their heart?
Hammurabi wanted his empire to be governed by this.
What are just and fair laws?
In warm places, nomads lived in ________.
In cooler places, nomads lived in _________
What are tents (warm) and caves (cooler)?
Name 2 things that an archaeologist would find at an ancient city dig.
What are pieces of pottery, bones, and weapons?
When the Egyptians were united under one king, what colors did the king wear to show that he ruled the entire country?
What are a double crown with a white spike at the center and a red band on the outside?
Name at least 3 things that were placed in an Egyptian burial chamber.
What are furniture, food, clothes, games and jewelry?
Sargon made harsh laws and sent his army to every city to make sure the people were doing what?
What are obeying his laws?
Nomads built tents using _____________ and wooden frames.
What are animal hides?
Name 3 tools that an archaeologist would use on a dig.
What are shovels, brushes, axes, plot markers, compasses, and cameras?
Ancient Egyptians used this form of writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
What is a sarcophagus?
How did Hammurabi make sure his people knew what the laws were?
What is carved the laws into a stone monument and display them in every city?
Early farmers dug ________ to bring water from the river to their fields.
What are canals?
One of the most famous archaeological discoveries in the world can be found here.
Where is Egypt?
What did Ancient Sumerians use to write things down?
What are clay tablets?
How long did it take for the mummification process?
What is over 2 months?
Name the ruler that made laws that we use even today in modern times.
Who is Hammurabi?
Name the roles of the men of the tribe and the women of the tribe.
The men were hunters and the women were gathers of berries.
Name the scientist who studies dinosaurs.
What is a Paleontologist?
According to an Egyptian story, Set tricked his brother into laying down in a _____________.
What is a coffin?
What did they place in between the layers of linens when they were wrapping the mummies?
What are pieces of jewelry?
What did the Sumerians have to do with their clay tablets if they wanted to save them?
What is bake them in the sun to harden?
One of the best places to the earliest people to live was called _______________.
What is the Fertile Cresent?