Early Civilizations
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Time Designations
Government
100

Nomadic hunter-gatherer groups lived in which temporary natural features?

Caves

100

Which of these innovations was created to improve agricultural production:

*Cuneiform Writing 

*Stylus

*Lock and key mechanism

*Plow

Plow

100

The Nile Delta flows into which body of water?

Mediterranean Sea

100

A period of ten years

Decade

100

A form of government ruled by a king or queen as the head of state

Monarchy

200

The process of trading goods and services without the exchange of money?

barter

200

Which two rivers are associated with ancient Mesopotamia? 

Tigris and Euphrates River

200

Who was the governmental leader who was seen as a god on earth and the link between the other gods and the Egyptian people 

Pharaoh

200

The two time designations that measure time after the Birth of Jesus Christ

AD and CE


200

A collection of many different regions ruled over by a single supreme leader

Empire

300

Created stone tools to help improve daily life?

Hunter-gatherers

300

A Sumerian temple to worship the gods

Ziggurat

300

The Egyptian form of writing with over 700 picture symbols

Hieroglyphics

300

An approximate date

circa 

Abbreviation: c. or ca. 

300

A government ruled by a priest or religious leader

Theocracy

400

Which component of civilization documents about life, death, beliefs and values?

Religion

400

What is the lush quarter moon shaped area called where the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia developed? 

Fertile Crescent

400

The Egyptians believed the soul needed to reunite with the body after judgement in the afterlife. The developed what to slow decomposition and preserve the body?

Mummification

400

A period of one hundred years

Century

400

Created the first written law code in Babylon

Hammurabi
500

Which component of civilization creates laws and is in charge of trade? 

Government

500

Who/what was in charge of the daily life and events in nature in ancient Mesopotamia?  

The gods

500

First female pharaoh who improved finances in Egypt by improving trade

Hatshepsut

500

When doing timeline math and you're trying to find how many years passed between two events that are the same time period, what do you do? 

Example: 500 BCE and 100 BCE

Subtract the numbers

500

Created the world's first empire in Akkad

Sargon

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