Why is farming important?
Did the people of Mesopotamia believe in more than one god?
Yes
Why is it important to have leaders?
- to help keep everyone safe and organized
Why is writing important?
-so things can be remembered correctly
Babylon was a city in ________________
Mesopotamia
How did the people of Mesopotamia get water to their crops?
-canals
Did the people of ancient Egypt believe in more than one god?
Yes
Who was a leader of Mesopotamia?
King Hammurabi
Cuneiform is the writing of _____________
Mesopotamia
What did they put in pyramids?
-pharaoh's body, treasures
How did the people of ancient Egypt get water to their crops?
What is a ziggurat?
- place where the people went to pray
What did King Hammurabi write?
-laws
Hieroglyphics is the writing of ______________
ancient Egypt
What does a pyramid look like?
What were the names of the rivers in Mesopotamia?
-Tigris River and Euphrates River
Name a god from Mesopotamia. God of the ______
-sun , plants, water, city
What were the leaders of ancient Egypt called?
pharaohs
What did scribes do?
-write
What does the sphinx look like?
body of a lion and head of a human
Nile River
Some of the gods of ancient Egypt were half human and half_________.
animal
Tut, Hatshepsut
What did they write on in Mesopotamia?
Clay tablets
What was the sphinx guarding?
the pyramids