Geography
Mesopotamia was located in
What are modern-day Iraq and Kuwait?
The leader of Egyptian society
What is a pharaoh?
Traded surplus crops for supplies they needed
Who are Mesopotamia and Egypt?
Ancient kings were seen as _______
What are demigods?
The creators of the pushcart
Who is Mesopotamia?
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is The Land Between Rivers?
They utilized a tremendous amount of slave labor
Who are the Mesopotamians and Egyptians?
Used to write in both civilizations
What is papyrus and clay?
Believed in eye for an eye justice
What is Mesopotamia?
Who is Hammurabi?
One of the oldest stories and most famous stories ever written by ________ civilization.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh by the Mesopotamian civilization?
Civilization located North of Sudan.
Who are the Egyptians?
A civilization that kept its kings and government officials at the top of its social hierarchy
Who are the Egyptians?
A representation of 0.2 pounds or 90 grams of goods
What is a deben?
To believe in multiple gods
What is polytheism?
Rules that governed the ancient Babylonian Empire
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The name of the area in which Mesopotamia was formed
What is the fertile crescent?
A job requiring the knowledge of hundreds of written/etched characters
What is a scribe?
Three seasons of the agricultural year
What is flooding, planting, and harvesting?
Egyptian gods looked like
What are animal and human hybrids?
One of the first written languages
What is Cuneiform/Hieroglyphics/Hieratics?
_______ made the land around the river very ______ leading to food surpluses due to _______
Why does flooding make the land fertile for farming?
The reason priests were important in ancient times
What is appeasing and maintaining the relationship between the kingdom and the gods?
A downside to agriculture
What is pollution?
Why does it take a lot of land?
What is destroying the local ecosystem?
What is using a lot of water?
Pharaoh's reason to have their loyal servants, pets, and possessions entombed with them
Why would they want to have them with them in the afterlife?
The first empire in the world
What is the Akkadian Empire?