What two rivers was the land of "Mesopotamia" located between?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
200
The Sumerians invented.....
What is the wheel, the sailboat, bronze and copper tools and weapons, a twelve month calendar, and the earliest known writing system known as cuneiform.
200
Who was the last Egyptian pharaoh?
Who is Cleopatra?
200
What is the Egyptian word for soul?
The "ka"
300
In order to keep cities from flooding, Sumerians learned to use ________, or the ways of supplying water to land through the use of canals, ditches, and reservoirs.
What is irrigation?
300
Sumerians created the first writing system. This writing system is called what?
What is cuneiform?
300
The Ancient Egyptian process of preserving the body was called....
What is mummification?
300
What were mummies buried with?
They were buried with their belongings and everything they might need in the afterlife
400
Ancient Egypt was located near what river...
What is the Nile?
400
The Sumerians built stepped pyramids known as....
What are ziggurats?
400
The Egyptian pharaohs were buried in...
What are the pyramids?
400
True or false. Everyone could afford mummification.
False only the wealthy could afford mummification
500
Why were the first civilizations located by rivers?
The rivers provided water for farming and a means of transportation for boats.
500
The Sumerians created the earliest known writing system?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
500
In the pyramid, the pharaoh was surrounded with precious objects because of their belief in...
What is the afterlife?
500
Before the body was bandaged the Egyptians would remove...