Geography
Name the River in Egypt
What is the Nile River
Mesopotamia and Egypt are a ______ society? Belief in more than one god.
Polytheistic
Which civlization used cuneiform for their record keeping?
What is Mesopotamia
Which civilization had the same rights as men.
What is Ancient Egypt
The leader in Ancient Egypt is known as a ________
What is Pharoah
Name the (2) rivers in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
What Mesopotamia structure was built for sacrifices to gods.
What is a ziggurat.
The Sumerians were the first to mix tin and copper to create this new metal
What is Bronze
A ________ of food enables us to trade with other civilizations. (Think extra)
What is a surplus
What is Hammurabi's Code (Mesopotamia)
What is a set of laws....An Eye for An Eye
Which farming technique did the Mesopotamian and Egyptians use to control the flooding?
What is irrigation
In Egypt rulers were known as _______?
What is pharoahs
What is the name of Egyptian writing
What is Hieroglyphics
In Mesopotamia, the middle class consisted of which group of people?
What is Workers and merchants
This pharaoh reigned for 67 years and was the pharaoh during the Jewish exodus from Egypt
Who is Ramses II
What natural barrier isolated Egypt from outsiders?
What is the Sahara desert
Why did the Ancient Egyptians perform mummification?
What is afterlife
The ancient Egyptians created this as way to write and keep records.
What is Papyrus (paper)
Slaves in Ancient Egypt had the oppurtunity to earn what?
What is earn freedom.
She was a very powerful female pharaoh
Who is Hatshepsut
Name of the area in Mesopotamia where the soil was extremely fertile.
What is the fertile crescent
Mesopotamian believed that the Kings and Queens descended from where?
What is the gods
The Ancient Mesopotamian built this object as a way to transport more goods and resources in one trip.
What is a wheeled cart.
The spread of ideas or products from 1 culture to another
What is Cultural Diffusion
What was the decline of Mesopotamia?
What is overpopulation, irrigation problems and invasions from outsiders.