What is the area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers called?
Mesopotamia
What was put between the strips of linen wrapped around a mummy?
Pieces of jewelry
Whom were among the earliest peoples to use writing?
Egyptians
On what continent is the Nile River located?
The continent of Africa
The earliest humans were called what?
Nomads
Sargon was found and raised in what city?
Kish
What did the priests do with many of the organs inside of a dead body?
Place them in canopic jars
What was Egyptian writing called?
Hieroglyphics
There were two groups of people living along the Nile. What were they callled?
Upper Egyptians, and Lower Egyptians
What types of food did women and children provide for nomadic families?
What are berries, nuts, and roots
Mesopotamia was originally made up of city states, the citizens were called what?
Sumerians
What were pharoahs buried in to protect their treasures?
Pyramids
The people living in Sumeria found another way to write, they called it what?
Cuneiform
When the White Crown king overtook both Egyptian kingdoms he was called the...
Pharoah, or double crowned king
What crops did the first farmers grow?
What was wheat and barley
What was Sargons job before he became a military dictator?
The kings cup bearer.
The Egyptians believed that this would be weighed on a special scale in the afterworld.
Their heart
What type of material did Sumerians write upon?
Wet clay
Which Egyptian god brothers fought each other?
Set and Osiris
What was the land where the first nomadic farmers settled called?
The fertile crescent
What was Mesopotamia called after the military dictatorship started?
Akkadia
What did the Egyptians begin making for the first time during the Old Kingdom era?
Papyrus
What was wrong with wrong with the use of papyrus?
It fell apart over time.
Why did Egyptian farmers want flooding to occur?
The water and silt would make the earth richer and plants would grow better.
What did early farmers build to help each other water and tend their crops?
What are villages