Mesopotamia
The first civilization in Mesopotamia
What is Sumeria?
Flows north through Africa for over 4,000 miles
What is the Nile River?
The capital and heart of the Kingdom of Kush
What is the Island of Meroe?
Polytheistic, seafaring people who settled on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Who were the Phoenicians?
A long poem, usually centered on a hero
What is epic?
Temples shaped like pyramids
What are ziggurats?
A giant statue that is half man and half lion and was built to protect the Great Pyramid
What is The Great Sphinx?
Also called Nubia, it was an African civilization located on the Nile River
What is the Kingdom of Kush?
The religion of the ancient Israelites
What is Judaism?
Plain at the mouth of a river
What is a Delta?
A form of writing based on making wedge-shaped impressions with reeds on soft clay tablets
What is Cuneiform?
Picture-like symbols used for writing
What are Hieroglyphics?
A type of paper made from the papyrus plant
What is papyrus?
The sacred text of Israelites
What is the Torah?
What is a vizier?
A professional writer
What is a Scribe?
A great warrior who signed the world's first peace treaty
Who is Ramses the Great?
He created the first united Egyptian dynast when he joined Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is King Menes?
Divine laws on proper behavior toward God and each other
What are the 10 commandments
What is a dynasty?
A list of 282 laws
What is the Hammurabi's code?
He was buried in a tomb containing over 5,000 expensive objects
Who is King Tut?
Figures with both human and animal characteristics
What are Therianthropes?
Advised people on how God wanted them to live
Who are Prophets?
Belief in one God
What is monotheism?