Geography
Mesopotamia had ______ flooding while Egypt had _______ flooding.
unpredictable, predictable
What word means "belief in many deities (gods and goddesses)"
Polytheistic
What was Egypt's religious leader and king called?
Pharaoh
What was Mesopotamia's form of writing called?
Cuneiform
The civilization that was South of Egypt was ________
Nubia
What are the 2 rivers in Mesopotamia? (spelling counts)
Euphrates and Tigris
Mesopotamia had a ______ outlook on afterlife while Egypt had a ______ outlook on afterlife.
Negative, positive
What was Mesopotamia separated in and ruled independently in?
City-states
What was Egypt's form of writing called?
Hieroglyphics
Where did the Phoenicians trade?
The Mediterranean Sea
What is the river through Egypt?
Nile River
What was Mesopotamia's afterlife called?
The Land of No Return
The first written set of laws that was extremely harsh
Hammurabi's Code
Mesopotamia
The first alphabet
Define a river valley AND give 2 advantages of living in a river valley.
Possible answers:
fertile soil
good farming
water source
food source
Mesopotamia's temples were called _______ and Egypt's temples were called ______.
Ziggurats, pyramids
Kings/Priests/Higher Class
Hieroglyphics were symbols called a ______
Pictogram
What was the Kingdom inside Nubia called?
Kush
Mesopotamia did not get along with its neighbors and was invaded constantly.
Egypt got along with its neighbors and traded with them.
What was the process of Egypt's afterlife? (3 things)
1) Book of the Dead 2) Mummification 3) Living forever in the afterlife
Theocracy
What was Mesopotamia's earliest surviving piece of literature?
Epic of Gilgamesh