Civilization
Name of the fine-grained sediment, like mud or soil, that is carried by flowing water and then settles in places near rivers, lakes and oceans.
What is silt?
Mesopotamia is located in this present-day country.
What is Iraq?
The writing system created by a Mesopotamian civilization that used wedges on clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The Egyptian god of the sun?
The professional writers in Ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
What is rivers?
An advanced human society with developed government, culture, industry, and social norms?
What is civilization?
The two rivers that are in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
Other than a king, people also viewed a pharaoh as this.
The term used to describe the belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
Lowest class in Ancient Egypt.
What is a peasant/slave?
The crescent-shaped region in the Middle East known for its rich soil and historical significance as the "Cradle of Civilization."
What is the Fertile Crescent?
“Mesopotamia” means:
What is land between the two rivers?
What is a farmer?
A government run by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
Mesopotamian group that is credited with creating the world's first writing system?
What is Sumerians?
The nameplate/seal used by Pharaohs and queens in Ancient Egypt?
What is a cartouche?
Sumerians wrote cuneiform on these.
What are clay tablets?
Ancient Egyptians buried with everyday items like furniture, jewelry, and food to help them with this.
What is the afterlife?
The long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds that Egyptians used to write on.
What is papyrus?
Known as the land between the two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The name of the official who is below the pharaoh and the head of the bureaucracy, who was second in command in Egypt.
Who is the Vizier?
This is a ruling family.
What is a dynasty?
This item allowed the interpretation of hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Daily Double:
The Imaginary creature with a human head and the body of a lion that guarded a pyramid.
What is the Sphinx?