Vocabulary
These people moved from place to place.
What is a Nomad?
Egyptian kings were called
Pharaohs
Mesopotamia's nickname is...
The Fertile Crescent
Judaism was the first _______________ religion
Monotheistic
The first written laws were
Hammurabi's Code
The belief in multiple gods and goddesses
Polytheism
The Egyptian civilization is on what river?
Nile
The major civilization of Mesopotamia was called
Sumer
The Jewish god is called
Yahweh
The switch from hunting and gathering to farming is known as the
Agricultural Revolution
This word means "to write down, to clarify, to arrange in a systematic way"
to codify
The Egyptian written language is called
Hieroglyphics
The written language developed in Mesopotamia is called
Cuneiform
The Jewish holy book is called the
The Torah, or the Old Testament
Name one of the rivers of the Chinese River Valley civilization.
Yangtze or Huang-He (or Yellow River)
The earliest written languages were based on symbols representing words, which are called _____________ languages
Pictograph
Egyptian pyramids were used for what?
Tombs for pharaohs
Name BOTH rivers of Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Abraham
Man-made items, such as pottery, weapons, letters, photographs and trash are classified as
Artifacts
The type of lifestyle centered in one place, with no frequent moving to follow food
A sedentary lifestyle
The Egyptian process of preserving dead bodies and preparing them for the afterlife
Mummification
Mesopotamians build pyramid temples with stairs. These were called
Ziggurats
According to Judaism, there is a _______________ between God and Jewish believers
A covenant
Someone who studies artifacts and fossils to learn about the past is called:
An archaeologist