Ancient Egypt
location of upper egypt can be found
What is the oldest civilization in the world?
The Sumerian civilization is the oldest civilization known to mankind. The term Sumer is today used to designate southern Mesopotamia. In 3000 BC, a flourishing urban civilization existed. The Sumerian civilization was predominantly agricultural and had community life.
writing of the ancient Egyptians (pictorial symbols used to represent words and sounds)
Hieroglyphs
present day country can you find the Tigres and Euphrates rivers?
What is Iraq
The year Pokemon was created
1998
This god created writing to make Egyptians wiser and gave the knowledge of writing to Scribes
The word Mesopotamia means…
the land between 2 rivers
Three kinds of glyphs in ancient Egypt
Phonetic, logographs, determinatives
the most fertile soil in Egypt is called
stilt
Ways Hieroglyphs were used
coffins, tombs, pyramids, religious purposes
what makes up the hieroglyphic alphabet
24 signs that don't include vowels
What is some of Hammurabi’s Code that still exist in laws today?
What is a right to a fair trial, right to a minimum wage, and innocence until proven guilty
a symbol that represents an idea or concept
ideogram
The Nile river drains into which sea
Mediterranean sea
Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic Alphabet
presented 3 translations of the same text in hieroglyphic, demotic, and greek
Did all civilizations in Mesopotamia call themselves Mesopotamians?
No, they called themselves Sumerians, Akkadian, Babylonians.
an alphabet without vowels is called
abjad alphabet
Where is the location of Mesopotamia?
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.
This is a writing paper that Egyptians made from water plants of the same name.
papayrus
What is ancient Egypt known for?
The ancient Egyptian civilization, famous for its pyramids, pharaohs, mummies, and tombs, flourished for thousands of years.
Who is Hammurabi
Made one of the oldest written law codes called Hammurabi's Code.
What is the writing system of Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
Where is Egypt located?
What is the continent of Africa
The system in which people of Egypt traded with Mesopotamia
Economic