Ancient Egypt
The reason the Egyptians needed the river to flood.
What is the silt fertilized the ground.
A person who wanders or roams.
What is a nomad?
Name one river that is in the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Tigres or Euphrates river?
The Sumerians wrote on this material.
What is clay?
The grain grown by Chinese farmers.
What is rice?
The form of writing used by Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics?
Early farmers would dig these to bring water to their fields.
What is a canal?
The Nile river is on this continent.
What is Africa?
The word Mesopotamia means_________.
What is between two rivers.
The Chinese used this special type of writing.
What is pictograms?
The name of the special paper Egyptians created.
What is papyrus?
A machine used to water crops.
What is a shaduf?
What is China?
One of the earliest cities discovered.
What is Jericho?
The people used the river to gain wealth by ________.
trading goods.
What is a priest?
The material made from the cocoons of worms
What is silk?
Name one of the 2 rivers that formed the valley where the Chinese first settled.
What is the Yellow or Yangtze.
Hammurabi wrote laws called __________
What is the Hammurabi Code?
The Indian farmer was different from the Mesopotamian farmer because he used different animals to farm called_________.
What are elephants or water buffalo?
An Egyptian burial tomb is called a _______.
What is a pyramid?
A __________ is when a family rules for many years.
What is a dynasty?
The people in India built cities near this river.
What is the Indus?
Hammurabi ruled the southern part of Mesopotamia called_____________.
What is Babylonia?
Indian cities were built near mounds called________.
What is a citadel?