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Phoenicia
Babylon
Sumer
Egypt
Miscellaneous
100
How did the invention of alphabet help them?
helped make writing easier
100
Babylon is located in what modern day country
What is Iraq
100
First writing used which is made up of many symbols
What is cuneiform
100
River running south to north
What is the Nile River
100
term describing where something is in relation to where something else is
What is relative location
200
Where Phonecia was located
What is on the Mediterranean Sea
200
Ruler of Babylon known for making a code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Fertile Crescent is also known as
What is Mesopotamia
200
Quick rapids in the Nile River protecting Egyptians from invaders
What is a cataract
200
Egyptian term meaning life after death
What is the afterlife
300
There isn't a lot known about the Phonecians because....
Most of their records were destroyed
300
Vocabulary term meaning having more food than needed
What is food surplus
300
Belief in more than one god
What is Polytheism
300
Egyptian writing
What is hieroglyphics
300
plant used to make paper
What is papyrus
400
Phonecia is located in what modern day country?
Lebanon and/or Israel
400
Babylon located on what rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
400
a way of supplying water to crops
What is irrigation
400
Egyptian coffin is called a what?
What is a sarcophagus
400
Something found in 1799 that helped historians de-code hieroglyphs
What is Rosetta Stone
500
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent
500
Term meaning people divided into different social classes
What is social hierarchy
500
2 achievements of the Sumerians
What are the wheel, cuneiform, irrigation, ziggurat,
500
Pharaoh's crew for building pyramids
Who were the slaves, farmers, men from neighboring lands
500
term meaning people specializing in different jobs in a society
What is division of labor