Geography
What is the direction the Nile river flows?
South-North
Who was the first pharaoh of Egypt?
Menes (AKA Narmer)
What is the Pyramids main purpose?
Tombs for the pharaohs and other nobles.
Who was at the bottom of both Mesopotamian and Egyptian social hierarchies?
Slaves.
Who was arguably the most famous queen of Ancient Egypt, who also happens to be its last ruler?
Cleopatra.
What are the two rivers Ancient Mesopotamia started in?
Tigres and Euphrates.
Who was the Babylonian king who created the first set of laws in Mesopotamia?
Hammurabi
What is the name of the most common form of writing in Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
What is the name of the god represented by the pharaohs?
Horus
Other than foreign invasions and climate events, what has led to the civilian unrest, eventually resulting in the end of the Old Kingdom age in Egypt?
Taxation over the construction and work on the Pyramids.
What was the first capital of Ancient Egypt?
Memphis.
A (likely) Sumerian king was the main character in a very popular story in Ancient Mesopotamia, known as the Epic of...What is his name?
Gilgamesh
What was initailly the main purpose of the writing system developed by Sumerians?
Keeping track of trade.
Where can we find the best example of the Mesopotamian legal code today?
The Louvre museum, Paris.
Which Mesopotamian people successfully conquered Ur and the Sumers for the first time?
The Gutians.
What are the five modern-day countries Ancient Mesopotamia is located in?
Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait.
What construction is King Nebuchadnezzar II most famous for?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
What plant did Egyptians use to create paper?
Papyrus
What were the scribes responsible for?
Writing - mainly legal and religious texts.
Who eventually conquered the Mesopotamian region, beginning the Hellenistic period in the area?
Alexander the Great
What is the name of the mountains home to the Guti people, who eventually conquered the Akkads?
Zagros.
Who was the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom?
Mentuhotep II
How did Egyptians improve the plough, a technique we still use today?
They adapted it to use cattles to pull ploughs.
What is the name of the object responsible for our understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Rosetta Stone
What is the name given to the climate event that contributed to the collapse of the Old Kingdom?
4.2 ka event