Political
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is a city-state.
Figure that represents fertility, including femininity and goddesses.
What is a Venus Figurine.
What was the ultimate source of power and wealth in an agricultural society.
Egyptian society mirrored the societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia in that both were
What is patriarchal.
What river what Egyptian civilization located Near?
What is the Nile River.
Territory ruled by a king and queen.
What is a kingdom.
The Egyptians used hieroglyphics the same way as Sumerians used...
What is cuneiform.
What was the economy of Mesopotamia based on?
What is farming & trading.
Both Mesopotamia and Egypt worshipped many gods. They are considered...
What is polytheistic.
What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.
Pharaohs in Egypt were seen as...
What is divine.
Mesopotamian temples built for the gods.
What is Ziggurats.
Cities were different from Neolithic villages because
Cities influenced the economic, political, and cultural life of large regions.
Social classes emerged after the Agricultural Revolution. This happened because people could...
What is accumulate wealth.
What environmental challenge did the Egyptians and Mesopotamian's face?
What is both civilizations had rivers that flooded.
This law code displayed the inequalities between social classes.
What is Hammurabi's Code.
Used horse drawn chariots and bronze.
What is Egypt.
Besides agriculture, Mesopotamian and Egyptian economies also relied on:
What is long-distance trade.
Did women in Mesopotamia or Egypt enjoy more freedoms?
What is Egypt.
What motivated humans to migrate out of Africa?
What is environmental changes.
How did Mesopotamian and Egyptian governments differ?
Mesopotamia: organized into city-states, rulers were stewards of the city's patron gods.
Egypt: United through a kingdom. Pharaoh was seen as divine.
Explain the purpose of Pyramids.
Answer needs to mention the afterlife and how it was shaped by their environment.
What is traditional economy.
Explain why the Egyptians outlook on the life/afterlife differed from the Mesopotamian's view.
What is: The Nile's flooding was predictable, the Mesopotamia's was not. Nile had a positive outlook. Mesopotamia's had a negative outlook (thought their gods were punishing them).
Besides the flooding of their rivers, how did the geography of Mesopotamia an Egypt differ?
Egypt was surrounded by deserts, mountains, seas, and cataracts which kept them protected. Mesopotamia was vulnerable to attack.