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Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Advances
Junk Drawer
100

An advanced method of bringing water to fields

What is irrigation?

100
The arc of fertile land in southwest Asia is referred to as...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
The source of the Nile is located in Lower or Upper Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
100
The device that allowed boats to travel against the wind.
What is the sail?
100
The man who made the saying," An eye for an eye" famous.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
200
The Greek word meaning "Land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The triangular-shaped deposit of land found at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200

Allowed the Egyptians to predict flooding.

What is the 365 day calendar?

200

The person who received the Ten Commandments.

Who was Moses?

300
The rich, fertile soil left behind after flooding waters recede.
What is silt?
300
One of 3 environmental problems people in Mesopotamia faced.
What is flooding rivers, lack of natural resources and no natural protection?
300
The king in Egypt is also thought to be a _____________.
What is a god?
300

The Egyptian system of writing and what it was written on.

What is hieroglyphics and papyrus?

300

Stone tablet that allowed historians to translate hieroglyphics into English

What is the Rosetta Stone?

400
A form of government based on religious authority.
What is theocracy?
400

Solutions to 2 geographical problems people in Mesopotamia faced.

What is irrigation ditches, wheel (plow/cart), and trading with other people for resources?

400
The geographical feature that surrounds Egypt to the east and west.
What is the desert?
400

The Mesopotamian system of writing and what it was written on.

What is cuneiform and clay/stone?

400
The 2 rivers found in Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
500

Surplus of food allowed for what aspect of a civilization to develop (related to, but not social structure).

What are specialized jobs/diversification of jobs?

500

Self contained areas that governed themselves and the surrounding territory.

What were city states?

500
The preservation of dead bodies in Ancient Egypt.
What is mummification?
500
The religious temple constructed by the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The main difference between the flooding of the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris/Euphrates in Mesopotamia.
What is the Nile was predictable? Flooded in JULY!!!!!