Ancient Egypt
She was the first female Pharaoh
What is Hatshepsut
A system of government through departments and subdivisions.
What is bureaucracy
The Sumerians invented this object that helps things move faster and is on most vehicles today. It has 360 degrees.
What is the wheel
The name of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates.
Modern day Mesopotamia was located near this country.
What is Iraq?
River that runs through Egypt and is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River.
When people adopt many different jobs like artisan, priest or potter.
What is job specialization?
The Sumerians were located in a region within Mesopotamia called _________?
What is Sumer
The babylonian king, Hammurabi, created the first set of recorded laws. They are know as what?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The river that flows through Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
What is Heiroglyphics
worshipping or believing in more than one God
What is polytheistic?
They are Sumerian religuous temples.
What are ziggurats?
What were the Hittites known for?
What is iron weapons
The sea located at the end of Nile, North of Egypt.
What is Mediterranean Sea?
Egyptians created this process that uses chemicals to preserve dead bodies.
What is mummification?
Exchanging one set of goods or services for another.
What is barter economy
This is the name of the Sumerian writing system.
What is Cuneiform.
The name of the Babylonian king that brought Babylon back to power.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
An opening at the mouth of the Nile River
What is the Nile Delta?
Ancient Egyptian writing started with Heiroglyphics, before moving on to a simpler form called ________?
What is Hieratic?
An order of people in a society with producers like farmers toward the bottom and kings and rulers near the top.
What is Social Hierarchy
The Sumerian poem that is still read today?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh
Persia was the first Empire to create this kind of economy?
What is a money economy?
Mesopotamia was also know as this ____________
What is Fertile crescent?