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Sumer
Egypt
Stone Age
Civilizations
Cat Words
100
Mesopotamia
What is the "land between the rivers"?
100
The most important river to ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
100
Before Common Era
What is B.C.E.?
100
This characteristic allowed people to record important information.
What is writing?
100
A group of cows.
What is cattle?
200
These first appeared in Sumer in 3500 B.C.E.
What are city-states?
200
The title given to the Egyptian leader.
What is pharoah?
200
Where scientists believe human activity began on earth.
What is Africa?
200
This characteristic included inventions such as the wheel or plow.
What is technology?
200
A plant or reed found near water.
What is a cattail?
300
The two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
300
The lowest class in Egyptian society (not including slaves).
What are peasants?
300
How people survived in the Paleolithic Era.
What is hunting and gathering?
300
This characteristic included music and architecture.
What are the arts?
300
A group with common characteristics.
What is a category?
400
This area includes both Mesopotamia and Canaan (the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea) and gets its name from the good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
The sea bordering Egypt to the north.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
The event that signaled the end of the Paleolithic Era.
What is farming?
400
This characteristic included the belief in a god or gods.
What is religion?
400
An invention used to launch objects.
What is a catapult?
500
The arch, the wheel, and the plow.
What are 3 Sumerian inventions?
500
Egyptian paper.
What is papyrus?
500
9000 - 6000 B.C.E.
What is the era when farming began in the Fertile Crescent?
500
In Egypt, this characteristic can be described in the shape of a pyramid.
What is social structure?
500
A sudden, awful event.
What is a catastrophe?