These two rivers flood every year in the area of Mesopotamia and are used for growing crops.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
100
This group was responsible for creating the first code of laws under the ruler Hammurabi.
Who are the Babylonians?
100
a person whose job it is to keep the records and to write.
Who is a scribe?
100
This was the name of the writing system by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
100
This was the writing system of the Ancient Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
This river is in Egypt and the Egyptians used it for many things including growing crops.
What is the Nile River?
200
This group was responsible for the first writing system.
Who are the Sumerians?
200
This is a place where the people worshipped their gods.
What is a temple?
200
This greek word means "land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Besides growing crops name at least two other things the Egyptians used the Nile River for..
What are bathing, cooking, washing clothes and to drink.
300
Because of its Fertile soil the and the shape of the area, the lands of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia are the called the......
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
This group was responsible for the first postal system.
Who are the Akkadians?
300
This is a paper like material made from crops used by the Egyptians to write on.
What is Papyrus?
300
The plow and the wheel were also inventions by this group in Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
300
This was the season in which the Nile River would flood. It occurred from July to October.
What is Inundation?
400
Because there was a water supply, good soil for crops and they could use the rivers for travel and water for crops.....
What is the reason the area was chosen by the Mesopotamians to create their civilizations.
400
This group was responsible for having the first "college" called the school of Nisbis.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
When a city has its own government.
What is a city-state?
400
This group knew of the Pythagorean Theorem before anyone and were superior mathematicians.
Who are the Babylonians?
400
I became Pharaoh when I was only 9 years old, however I died at a young age of 18.
Who is King Tut?
500
The area of Mesopotamia is located in these 3 Modern Day countries....
What is Iraq, Syria and Turkey?
500
Which group or groups had an irrigation system that helped them control the river floods to grow their crops?
Who are Sumerians, Assyrians, Akkadians, Babylonians and the Egyptians?
500
A Pyramid-shaped structure with a flat top, probably had a temple on the top
What is Ziggurat?
500
Under the leader Sargon this civilization was able to unify the city-states and create a centralized government for Mesopotamia, making the area stronger against invaders.
Who are the Akkadians?
500
Name 3 accomplishments of Ancient Egypt.
What are they built the pyramids, they had the first peace treaty, they had a writing system, they had an irrigation system, they had a calendar.