Government
Pharaohs ruled as ...
What is God-King?
Farmers, peasants, and laborers were at the bottom of the social hierarchy. They were referred as ...
What is lower class?
Believe and worship more than God, it is called
What is polytheism/polytheistic?
In Egypt, this was built to bury pharaohs once they were dead
What is pyramids?
Whenever the Nile River flooded different areas, it would leave behind a rich deposit of fertile black mud called...
What is Silt?
a type of government that rules based on religious authority
What is theocracy?
Wealthy landowners, government officials, priests, and army commanders were all a part of the ...
Egyptians worshipped the _______ as if it was a God.
What is the Nile River?
Irrigation ditches, dams, levees, gates, and canals were built to ...
What is bringing water to farms or control floods?
In Ancient Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers helped skilled workers make _____ and _____.
What is Mud and Clay?
In Egypt, the kingdoms were divided before they became a huge empire. These two kingdoms were ______ and _______.
What are Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?
In Mesopotamia and Egypt, a scriber is a person who ...
What is a person who writes things down and keeps them as a record?
In Mesopotamia, the religious temples were called
What is ziggurats?
Ancient Mesopotamia used _______ to build cities.
Silt was very important to farmers because ...
In Mesopotamia, each _____ and ______ designed the rules and systems they thought would benefit their people the most.
What are king and city?
The writing system in Ancient Mesopotamia was called ...
The writing system in Ancient Egypt was called ...
What are cuneiform (Mesopotamia) and hieroglyphics (Egypt)?
In Mesopotamia, Enlil was a god known as “the raging flood that has no rival.” He was the God of...
What are storms and air?
Early Egyptian architects were the first to use _____ columns in homes, palaces, and temples.
True or False: The floods in Ancient Egypt were more predictable because they tracked them with a calendar meanwhile in Mesopotamia, the floods were unpredictable.
What is True?
Name one famous ruler (king) from Ancient Egypt.
Name one famous ruler (king) from Ancient Mesopotamia
What is Ur-Nammu (king of Ur) or Sargon of Akkad (who established the Akkadian Empire) or Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state)?
What is Scorpion or Narmer?
True or False: In Ancient Egypt, all women held many of the same rights as men.
What is False?
In Egypt, Re was the God of ______ and Isis was the Goddess of ______.
What is sun and motherhood/love/healing?
True or False: In Ancient Mesopotamia, tombs were more important than the palaces.
What is False?
List two other ways that the people used the Nile and Tigris/Euphrates Rivers (other than farming).
What is trade, bathing, drinking water, recreation, and/or travel?