A fan-shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea
What is a delta?
100
He wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life in Sumer
Who is Hammurabi?
100
It is a system of writing developed by the Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
100
A King or ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
100
It is forced payments from conquered people
What is tribute?
200
Dangerous, rocky, fast-moving water
What is cataracts?
200
It is a long poem that tells the story of a hero
What is an epic?
200
It is a record keeper
What is a scribe?
200
The first governments in early civilizations
What is a theocracy?
200
What caused the decline and fall of the Egyptian Empire?
A. The people were too interested in their religion
B. The Egyptians were attacked by neighboring peoples.
C. Egyptian crops failed because of drought.
D. The people built too many temples and ran out of money
What is B?
300
The Egyptian writing system that uses picture and sound symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
300
It is a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top
What is a Ziggurat?
300
It is the part of Babylon known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is the Hanging Gardens?
300
An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips
What is a mummy?
300
Egyptians studied this to learn how to obtain life after death
What is the Book of the Dead?
400
The reason that the Nile has been called the "lifeblood of Egypt
What is it is the world's longest river?
400
In what two ways are Mesopotamia and Egypt the same?
A. Both civilizations had the same types of government and religious beliefs
B. Farming surpluses meant people could specialize. Both economies grew as a result.
C. Both had natural defenses and floods
D. Both had major rivers and dependable floods
What is B?
400
It is one characteristic that early civilizations shared.
They developed cities and formed governments.
400
Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
What is to provide tombs that would honor and protect the dead pharaohs and their possessions
400
An ancient Egyptian ruin with the body of a lion and a human head
What is The Sphinx?
500
It is a group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
It is where Mesopotamia located
What is in southern Iraq in between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
500
It is a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
500
The Egyptian invention to prevent the pharaoh's body from decomposing