Mesopotamia
What was their writing system?
What is cuneiform?
Why did Egypt have rich soil?
What is the flooding, silt, or Kemet?
Were they polytheistic or monotheistic?
What is polytheistic?
What is the longest river in the world and is a north-flowing river?
What is the Nile River?
What rivers is Mesopotamia between?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The first written system of laws
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The purpose of the pyramids
What is to bury pharaohs?
How many rulers did they have at a time?
One
Channels that guide water to crops.
What is irrigation?
Why did Mesopotamia have successful agriculture?
What is rich soil?
One invention of the Mesopotamians
What are the wheel, chariot, calendar, board games, and writing?
Name one important pharaoh from the New Kingdom
Who was Aten, Hatshepsut, Tutankamhen, Ramses the Great?
Geographic feature that both civilizations grew up next to
What are rivers?
What is the large body of water the Nile empties to?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A geographical feature near Mesopotamia
What are deserts, mountains, or seas?
Type of religion the Mesopotamians had
What is polytheism?
Shallow areas of the river that cause rough water
What are cataracts?
What was the difference between the flooding of the Nile and the flooding of the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The Tigris and Euphrates flooded irregularly.
Type of crop they harvested to make their papyrus that they used to write
What is Papyrus?
What current day region was Mesopotamia located in?
What is the Middle East or Iraq?
One of the groups of people who lived in Mesopotamia
Who are the Sumarians, the Akkadians, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and the Neo-Babylonians?
Why did the Egyptians have time for new advancements?
What is having a surplus?
Both civilizations have evidence of this becuase goods from foreign civilizations have been found there
What is trade?
The civilization to the South of Egypt.
What is Nubia?
What is the region in the Middle East where some of the earliest civilizations began?
What is the Fertile Crescent?