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Ancient Egypt
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Sumerians
Mesopotamia
Geography
100
She was the last female pharaoh
What is Cleopatra?
100
A group of people considered to be the highest part of society.
Who are the Elite?
100
The Sumerians invented this object that helps things move faster and is on most vehicles today. It has 360 degrees.
What is the wheel
100
The name of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates.
100
Modern day Mesopotamia was located near this country.
What is Iraq?
200
River that runs through Egypt and is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile River.
200
When people adopt many different jobs like artisan, priest or potter. Not everyone had to get food.
What is specialization?
200
This Sumerian story is the world's oldest story and could be considered the first superhero.
What is Gilgamesh?
200
The babylonian king, Hammurabi, created the first set of recorded laws. They are know as what?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The river that flows through Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
300
Ancient Egyptian writing is made up of phonograms and ____________
What are ideograms?
300
worshipping or believing in more than one God
What is polytheistic?
300
The are Sumerian religuous temples.
What are ziggurats?
300
This was the form of writing used in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
The sea located at the end of Nile, North of Egypt.
What is Mediterranean Sea?
400
Egyptians created this process that uses chemicals to preserve dead bodies.
What is mummification?
400
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?
400
This is the name of the Sumerian writing system.
What is Cuneiform.
400
Mesopotamia was know as the civilization between _____________.
What is between two rivers?
400
An opening at the mouth of the Nile River
What is the Nile Delta?
500
This is the ancient form of writing used by Egyptians.
What is Hieroglyphics?
500
A town or city that controls the land around it.
What is a city-state?
500
These people knew how to read and write in Sumerian society.
What is a scribe?
500
These were the only people allowed in the Ziggurat
What is a priest?
500
Mesopotamia was also know as this ____________
What is Fertile crescent?