The Earliest People
A person who wanders or roams around and does not have a permanent home
What is a nomad?
According to Egyptian mythology, Set tricked his brother Osiris into lying down in this
What is a coffin?
Early Egyptian writing made using pictures
What are hieroglyphics?
Monuments in which Pharaohs were buried to keep their treasures safe
What are pyramids?
A form of government in which a ruler has total control and uses his army to make sure people obey him
What is a dictatorship?
The two rivers between which the Fertile Crescent was located
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
Ancient Sumerian writing
What is cuneiform?
The only people allowed to embalm bodies held this job
What is priest?
The man who wanted to unite the Sumerian city-states into one empire was supposedly found floating down this river as a baby
What is the Euphrates River?
The two crops grown by the earliest farmers
What are wheat and barley?
The part of Egypt consisting of the Nile Delta
What is Lower Egypt?
The fertile crescent was home to this region, which literally means "between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
A large stone coffin inside an Egyptian burial chamber
What is a sarcophagus?
A man who wanted to make all of the Sumerian city-states into one empire
Who is Sargon?
Built by early civilizations to protect from invaders
What are stone walls?
The Egyptian king who unified Upper and Lower Egypt
Who is Narmer?
Paper made by ancient Egyptians from reeds growing along the banks of the Nile
Papyrus
The Great Sphinx has this kind of head and this kind of body
What is the head of a man and the body of a lion?
The man who wanted to unite the Sumerian city-states into one empire gave this name to his new empire
What is Akkadia?
Built by early farmers so they could help each other water and tend their crops
What are villages?
The part of Egypt along the straight, southern section of the Nile
What is Upper Egypt?
The ancient civilization which wrote with pictures on wet clay
What is Sumer?
The organs of a dead person were covered in spices and placed in these containers
What are canopic jars?
The man who wanted to make all the Sumerian city-states into one empire grew up in this city
What is Kish?