Vocabulary and Mythology
Geography and Society
Technological Advancements
Architecture
Bubble Gum Machine
100
This word means between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
These two rivers surround the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
Seasonal floods occurred in the Fertile Crescent region. In order to control them, farmers used this technological advancement.
What are dams and channels?
100
This leader built a great temple dedicated to herself at Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes.
Who is Hatshepsut?
100
What are Hieroglyphics?
200
This large pyramid-like temple was typically found at the city's center.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
The Nile River flows in this direction.
What is North?
200
Among all the technological advances in Mesopotamia, this one allowed farmers to reroute water to their fields.
What is irrigation?
200
While they are generally seen with stair-stepped faces similar to the Ziggurat, they had this material on the outside to make them gleam in the sun, as well as appear flat and smooth.
What is white limestone?
200
Within the Old Kingdom Government, this was the role of the Pharaohs.
What was a strong central authority with absolute power?
300
This written text was the first known and surviving example of law, which set moral standards for public interaction and society in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's code?
300
Unlike rivers found in Mesopotamia, the Nile River differs in this way.
What is regular, predictable flooding?
300
Considered an integral of an orderly society, this showed an up in Mesopotamian society.
What is Hammurabi's code?
300
For thousands of years the pyramids were considered the tallest structures on Earth until this structure appeared around this time period.
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What is the Eiffel Tower during the 1800s?
300
This area in Southern Mesopotamia was the site of the first known civilization.
What is Sumer?
400
This is another name of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
What is the Pyramid Age?
400
These features formed a natural fortification against invaders of Egypt.
What are the Nile River, the deserts, and mountains?
400
This demonstrated eleveated writing skills of Mesopotamians.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
400
Similar to castles that arrived thousands of years later, pyramids were built like this to save time and money.
What is a rubble infill and a smooth block exterior?
400
Hammurabi's code, created order, but demonstrated something in particular concerning society.
What is a social and financial hierarchy?
500
This is a rough section of rapids of the Nile River, of which there were several.
What are cataracts?
500
The fertile region surrounding Mesopotamia is called this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
Created from a Nile River bank growing plant, this allowed Egyptians to record information.
What is Papyrus?
500
This building was used for religious practices and sacrifices in Mesopotamia.
What is a Ziggurat?
500
Egypt fell after a large period of instability and unrest to this civilization.
What are the Persians?
600
This was the Egyptian god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
600
The river flooding in Mesopotamia was described with this word because it was unpredictable.
What is unpredictable and catastrophic?
600
This Babylonian invention is considered one of the most important tools in agriculture and transportation.
What is the wheel?
700
In Egyptian mythology, this animal-headed god weighed the hearts of the dead.
Who is Anubis?
700
Egypt was divided into these two regions, one in the north and one in the south.
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
700
This method was used in Mesopotamia for recording goods and transactions.
What cuneiform?
800
The Egyptians believed this sun god sailed across the sky every day in a boat.
Who is Ra?
800
The Sumerians were among the first to create this type of government ruled by kings.
What is a monarchy?
800
Egyptians mined this metal to make tools and weapons.
What is copper?