Cultural Hearths
This cultural hearth was located in what is now Turkey
What is Çatalhöyük?
This river runs through Egypt
What is the Nile?
These people governed Egypt for the Pharaoh
What are Viziers?
Mesopotamia was originally divided into twelve of these
What are city-states?
Egyptians referred to the desert as this
What is Red Land?
This is a trait of civilization that has to do with primary sources
What is record-keeping?
The Egyptians used this for irrigation
What is a shaduf?
These skilled workers knew how to read and write
What are scribes?
These individuals were 2nd on the Mesopotamian social hierarchy
What are priests?
This cultural hearth was known for rice cultivation
What is Banpo?
Unlike the Tigris and Euphrates, the Nile's floods were
predictable
This Pharaoh is known for her promotion of trade
Who is Hatshepsut?
City states conquered by Sargon had to pay this
What is tribute? 2x points
These Persian rulers were pretty "great"
This cultural hearth grew Maize
What is Oaxaca?
Egyptian history is organized into these
What are dynasties?
This god weighs your heart when you die
What is Anubis?
These people, which worshipped the god Ashur, used iron weapons to take over Mesopotamia
Who are the Assyrians?
This term means to make plants or animals under human control
What is domestication?
Göbekli Tepe is one of the first places in world history where we have evidence of this (two words has to do with temples)
What is organized religion?
This king united Egypt
Who is Menes?
The final pharaohs came from here
Greece or Macedonia
Ziggurat means this in ancient Sumeria
What is 'mountaintop'? (2x points)
This is the landmass that nomadic peoples crossed to get from Asia to North America
What is the Bering Land Bridge?