Geography
What are the two rivers on which Mesopotamia was established
The Euphrates and Tigris
Name the method used to preserve a body after death in ancient Egypt
Mummification
What name is given to the rulers of Ancient Egypt?
Pharaohs
What is the name given to the pictograms used by the Mesopotamians?
Cuneiform
Describe the role of a scribe in Egyptian society
To read and write Hyroglyphs
What did seasonal flooding provide the Egyptians and Mesopotamians with?
Fertile soil for growing crops
What is the name given to the special coffin a wrapped mummy was placed in
Sarcophagus
Name the three main periods of Egyptian history
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
What did they Mesopotamians use for pen and paper?
Reeds and clay tablets
What name did the Sumerians give to the first city in Mesopotamia?
Uruk
What was most of the natural landscape like around Mesopotamia and Egypt
Dry and arrid desert.
What was the purpose of the book of the dead?
To provide guidance and protection as a soul passed through the underworld
Which was the first great empire in Mesopotamia?
Sumerian
What material did the Egyptians use as an early form of paper?
Papyrus
What name is given to a civilisation that worships many gods?
Polytheistic
What did the Egyptians and Meopotamians build to control the flow of the river to irrigate their crops
Canals and Dykes
Name the three kinds of Egyptian tomb
Mastaba, Pyramid and Hypogea
Which of the 4 great empires ruled Mesopotamia in both 1800 BCE AND in 612 BCE
Babylonian
Around when did Cuneiform script first appear?
3300 BCE
What is the name given to the huge mud-brick temples built by the mesopotamians?
Ziggurat
What name is given to the general area of land on which Egypt and Mesopotamia were built?
The Fertile Crescent
What god was associated with the process of mummification?
Anubis
What is the name of the King who founded the Babylonian empire?
King Hammurabi
What is the name of the historical artifact that enabled historians to finally translate hyroglyphs?
The Rosetta Stone
Egyptian architecture uses what instead of arches and vaults?
Lintels and architraves