Prehistoric
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
people who travel from place to place
nomads
100
What does Mesopotamia mean?
land between the river
100
belief in more than one god
polytheism
100
this word means extra
surplus
100
How long did the mummification process take?
70 days
200
people who hunted animals and searched for plants for food.
hunter-gatherers
200
In what present day country was much of Mesopotamia?
Iraq
200
This boy became king at the age of 9 and died around the age of 18.
Tut
200
land that is good for farming
fertile
200
Who was at the top of the Egyptian social pyramid?
pharaoh
300
small group of about 30 people who traveled and worked together
bands
300
What two rivers make up Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
300
people who could read and write.
scribes
300
waterfalls on the Nile
cataracts
300
common type of art by early humans
cave paintings
400
moving from one place to settle in another
migration
400
large public buildings that were part temple part city hall
ziggurat
400
god of the dead. He weighed the heart.
Anubis
400
a city and all the surrounding land
city-state
400
Father of the Hebrews
Abraham
500
The development of this helped people stay in one place
agriculture
500
This famous person created one of the first written set of laws.
Hammurabi
500
first female pharaoh
Hatshepsut
500
to preserve a body after death
embalm
500
first empire in Mesopotamia
Sumeria
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