Complex societies with organized communities, governments, languages, religions, and art.
Civlization
100
All early civilizations developed near rivers so people could do what?
Grow crops.
100
This was the most important person on the Egyptian hierarchy.
The pharaoh
100
In Egypt, gods and goddesses had human bodies, but heads of these.
Animals
100
A stone with writing in Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic/hieratic and Greek) found in 1799 and used to decode hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
200
Egyptian word for “territory”
Nome
200
Nomes were built along this river.
The Nile River
200
Egyptian pharaohs were always this (male/female - pick one).
Male
200
In Egypt, when you died your heart would be weighed against this.
A feather
200
The year 4000 BCE was 4,000 years before the Common Era, or before the year 1 CE.
How many years ago was 4,000 BCE?
6,017 years ago
300
Ancient Egyptian cursive writing
Hieratic
300
Mesopotamia means "the land between two rivers." Name the two rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates
300
In Mesopotamia, the lowest level of the hierarchy were these people.
Slaves
300
In Egypt, if the feather was lighter than your heart, this would happen to you.
Eaten by a demon
300
The written language of Mesopotamia was not hieroglyphics or hieratic. Instead, they wrote in this language.
Cuneiform
400
A family of rulers who rule over a country for a long period of time
Dynasty
400
In Mesopotamia, people controlled flooding to help grow crops by using this.
Irrigation systems
400
In Egypt, they did not have slaves. These were the lowest people in the hierarchy.
Unskilled workers
400
If you had a write a paper in Mesopotamia, you might pray to this god.
Nabu
400
In Mesopotamia, people invented this which is used in our everyday lives.
The wheel
500
Writing where a picture represents a word, sound, or syllable
Hieroglyphics
500
Cities were built all along the Nile river. But in Mesopotamia, the cities were mostly in this area.
The south.
500
In Mesopotamia, the more _______ you had, the more power you had.
Land
500
The people of Egypt and Mesopotamia believed in many gods. This is called _______.
Polytheism
500
In Mesopotamia, you would know when to pay your rent by following a calendar that was based on this.