Ancient Egypt
The term for Egyptian rulers.
What is a Pharaoh?
The oldest story told in the Sumerian civilization.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
The King of Babylon.
Who is Hammurabi?
The Persian Empire's religion.
What is Zoroaster?
Hammurabi's Code location.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
One of the Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
The two rivers in Sumer.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
The Code of Hammurabi represents.
What are the Laws?
The person who captured the Babylonian Empire and led the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Thick, paper-like material that Ancient Egyptians used for writing.
What is Papyrus?
The three types of writing systems did the Egyptians use in Ancient Egypt.
What are Hieratic Script, Demotic Script, and Hieroglyphics?
The conqueror of Sumer, who soon made the first empire.
Who is Sargon?
The leader of the new Babylonian Empire (Hint: not Hammurabi)
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The type of economy the Persian Empire used.
What is a Barter Economy?
The first person to discover King Tutankhamen's tomb was.
Who is Howard Carter?
The type of math they used to solve the problem with the Nile River floods.
What is Practical Geometry?
Name two cities in Sumer that had ziggurats.
What are Ur and Uruk?
The people Hammurabi hired to inscribe laws onto the stone pillar.
What are Artisans?
The type of government the Persian Empire used.
What is Bureaucracy?
The people who deciphered the Rosseta Stone.
Who is Thomas Young/Jean-François Champollion?
The number of stone blocks placed to build the Great Pyramid of Giza. (If you get close, you still get the point)
What are 2.3 Million Stone Blocks?
Name the social hierarchy in order from lowest power to highest power in Sumerian civilization. (Name just one for the lowest, low, middle, and highest classes)
Lowest Class- Enslaved people
Low Class- Peasant Farmers
Middle Class- Priests, Scribes, Merchants, Artisans
Highest Class- The Ruling Family, Leading Officials, High Priests
The number of laws in Hammurabi's Code. (If you get close, you still get the point)
What are the 282 Laws?
The person who ruled from 522 BC to 486 BC.
Who is Darius I?
The first person to discover the Rosseta Stone.
Who is Pierre-François Bouchard?