Egypt
The continent upon which Egypt is located
What is Africa?
This innovation allowed civilization to grow in the Near East.
What is farming?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
He wrote the first law code.
Who was Hammurabi?
The river that flow through Egypt
What is the Nile
The Egyptian writing system
What is Hieroglyphics?
The writing system of the Mesopotamians.
What is Cuneiform
A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian city
What is a ziggurat
They were the first to develop the idea of monotheism.
Who are the Hebrew?
The two rivers that make up Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The period of Egyptian history in which the pyramids were built.
What is the Old Kingdom?
The invention by the Mesopotamians that revolutionized transportation and pottery.
What is the wheel?
A family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family
What is a dynasty?
The two things the Hittites brought into the Near East.
What are iron working and horses?
This is made up of Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean Cost of the Near East.
What is the Fertile Crescent
They divide the Nile into upper and lower sections.
What are cataracts?
Instead of paper, ancient Mesopotamians wrote on these.
What are clay tablets?
The most common of the various titles for ancient Egyptian monarchs; the term originally meant "great house" or "palace"
What is pharaoh?
The weapon the Hyksos used to defeat Egypt at the end of the Middle Kingdom.
What is the chariot?
The eastern border of Mesopotamia
What are the Zargos Mountains?
He tried to make Egypt monotheistic.
Who was Akhenaton?
The name of the oldest epic story written by the Mesopotamians.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A person who domesticates animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routes to provide a steady source of nourishment for those animals
What is a pastoral nomad?
He was the first emperor in history.
Who was Sargon?
This surrounds Egypt
What is the Sahara Desert?