Inventions
What did they invent to help farm more land?
The wheel & the plough
What is the verb for commercial transaction?
To trade
Who governed the city-states and had political, military and religious power?
A King
What was the triangular prism structure that were part of the burial process?
A Pyramid
What did the Egyptians invent that had pictures or pictograms to represent sounds, words, and concepts in 3150 BCE?
Hieroglyphics
What did they invent to measure fields, count crops & livestock, do trading accounts and supervise tax collection?
To write/Writing
What is a person who does not own the farming land they work on?
A peasant
What is the name for a divine gift?
A blessing
What is the verb that defines when a river extends beyond it's course?
To flood/Flooding
What is the word for a person who performs religious rites?
A priest
What is a safe place, often for worshiping a god?
A sanctuary
What structure did the Mesopotamians establish to control different sectors of their civilization?
What is the verb that describes how they contained the water to use for crops?
To irrigate/ Irrigation
What is the person whose job is to keep a record of events called?
A scribe
A tomb