Sumer
Egypt
Inventions & Achievements
Religion & Society
Meso
100
This region, known as the “land between the rivers,” was home to Sumer.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The river that gave life to ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
100
The Sumerians invented this tool that allowed them to grow crops in rows.
What is the plow?
100
The belief in many gods is called this.
What is polytheism?
100
This area was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now _________.
What is Iraq?
200
The two rivers that gave Mesopotamia its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
200
The process Egyptians used to preserve bodies after death.
What is mummification?
200
This round invention made transportation and trade much easier.
What is the wheel?
200
Sumerian priests worked in these massive temples.
What is a ziggurat?
200
The Sumerians were polytheistic, meaning they believed in many ______.
What is gods?
300
These independent political units, like Ur and Uruk, made up Sumer.
What are city-states?
300
The title of Egypt’s ruler, believed to be a god-king.
What is a pharaoh?
300
The Egyptians built these massive structures as tombs for their pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
300
In both Sumer and Egypt, society was divided into these ranked groups.
What are social classes?
300
Mesopotamians wrote on ______ tablets using a reed stylus.
What is clay?
400
The Sumerians invented this form of writing using wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
400
This writing system used pictures and symbols for words and sounds.
What are hieroglyphics?
400
The Sumerians developed a mathematical system based on this number.
What is 60?
400
This famous Sumerian epic is one of the world’s oldest stories.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
Each city-state had its own _____ and government, often ruled by priests or warrior leaders.
What is king?
500
This large, pyramid-like temple stood at the center of each Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The Great Pyramid of this city is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is Giza?
500
Ancient civilizations created these systems of laws to keep order in society.
What are law codes?
500
Egyptians believed they would live on after death in this place.
What is the afterlife?
500
The land was fertile due to river flooding, but floods were unpredictable, so Sumerians developed _____________ systems.
What is irrigation?