Mesopotamia Geography
These two rivers bordered Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The Mesopotamians were polytheistic, which means...
What is "they believed in multiple gods"?
The Nile ______ annually (every year) which creates fertile soil for farming.
What is "floods".
The early writing surface invented by the Egyptians is called this.
What is papyrus?
Name three reasons why the Mesopotamians and Egyptians would settle by rivers?
Transportation
Fertile soil
Easy access to water
Waterborne trade
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The administrative and religious center of Mesopotamian cities was...
What is the ziggurat?
The Nile flows in this direction.
What is north?
In Ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was considered a god. This is an example of theocracy, which is when...
The ziggurat was a center for Mesopotamian cities, while the pyramids were used for this.
What are massive tombs for the pharaohs?
The climate of Mesopotamia.
What is a desert climate?
Two major city-states in ancient Mesopotamia include...
Uruk
Ur
Akkad
Babylon
Nineveh
Ancient Egypt is in this region of the world.
What is North Africa?
What is the Middle East?
These were the types of people who were mummified.
Who are pharaohs and the elite/upper class?
Two crops both civilizations grew were...
What are barley and wheat?
Good agriculture in the region allowed for an economy based on this.
What are tributes or taxes?
Name an invention that we got from the Mesopotamians.
The sail
The wheel
Modern concept of time
Irrigation
Writing
This desert acted as a natural barrier for the ancient Egyptians, protecting their civilization from invaders.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Narmer is thought to be responsible for this.
What is unite Upper and Lower Egypt?
The Egyptian religion differed from the Mesopotamian religion due to this.
What is belief in the afterlife?
These countries hold land that were once a part of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey?
Hammurabi was the leader of this empire.
What is the Babylonian?
The triangular, marshy area at the mouth of the Nile is an example of this.
What is a delta?
This discovery was a major breakthrough in deciphering, or translating, Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Name the writing systems of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What are cuneiform and hieroglyphics?