In the New Kingdom the Egyptians began to call their rulers by this name.
What is pharaoh?
100
These things prove that Egypt has a highly developed culture.
What is a polytheistic religion, architecture (pyramids), belief in the afterlife (mummification), art (paintings and sculpture), written language (hieroglyphs), and celebrations?
200
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
The Egyptian word for king or ruler.
What is pharaoh?
200
The Israelites long, 40 year journey back to their homeland.
What is the Exodus?
200
These are the "Gifts of the Nile."
What is the food, soil, and water the Nile provided to the Egyptians?
200
These things prove that Egypt had a stable food supply.
What is fertile soil, predictable flood season, specialization of labor (not every needed to farm), and the ability to trade food for other items?
300
The Sumerians used these methods in order to farm successfully.
What is irrigation and canal systems?
300
The plant from which paper is made.
What is papyrus?
300
This discovery allowed the Egyptian language to be translated.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Bonus: Name the 3 languages that appeared on the Rosetta Stone.
300
The three seasons of Egypt's year.
What is flood, planting, and harvest?
300
These things prove that Egypt had a system of government.
What is a dynasty headed by the pharaoh, with power also given to his priests, and advisors (viziers)?
OR
What is a ruler (the pharaoh), an army, and taxes?
400
The plow sailboat and wheel.
What are inventions by the Sumerians?
400
A nation of city-states under one ruler.
What is empire?
400
This allowed people to believe that they were living in a world of law and order.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
Where most pharaohs were buried as a result of tomb robbing.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
400
These things prove that Egypt had a specialization of labor.
What is the presence of farmers, slaves, servants, sculptors, builders, government officials, traders, sailors, scribes, etc.?
500
This allowed traditions and customs to spread among civilizations.
What is trade?
500
Series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
500
These writings (2) form the basis for our ideas of justice and law.
What are the Torah and the Ten Commandments?
500
The Egyptian form of writing.
What are Hieroglyphs?
500
These things prove that Egypt had different social levels.
What is a social structure (shaped like a pyramid) headed by the pharaohs, priests, and advisors, then the scribes and wealthy tradesmen, farmers and servants towards the bottom, and the slaves at the bottom?