Location/Rivers
Located in Modern Day IRAQ
What is Mesopotamia?
king of Egypt
What is pharaoh?
Belief in many gods
What is polytheistic?
People in Egypt believed they would go here after they died/name one thing they might take with them.
The afterlife/various answers
A person who can write
What is a scribe?
Located in Africa in the Sahara Desert
What is Egypt?
People who helped the Pharaoh control all of Egypt.
What are Bureaucrats
Mesopotamian temple.
What is ziggurat?
Egyptians made these to hold water so some water would remain after the floods.
basins
Egyptian writing
What is hieroglyphics?
Known as the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Mesopotamian king who codified (wrote) the first set of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
First kind of pyramid (only one story high)
What is a mastaba?
Which organ did Egyptians believe was of no value, so they disposed of it AND what did they do with the organs they thought were important to keep?
Brain/Put them in Jars
Where did the first written language come from and what was it called.
Mesopotamia/Cuneiform
The river that Egypt based everything around.
What is the Nile River?
Finish this sentence: "Eye for an Eye..."
What is "tooth for a tooth."
Mesopotamians wrote on this.
What is clay?
This type of work was done simply because one loved the pharaoh and wanted to do his part (but it was actually expected of everyone).
Corvee Labor
The two rivers that Mesopotamia was near.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Explain a LAW that Hammurabi wrote
What is (various answers will do)
What two roles did the leader of Egypt fill?
Pharaoh and god
Egyptians wrote on this
What is PAPYRUS (like the first form of paper)?
It is said that this social class is really what "held up the whole Egyptian Empire."
slaves