Geography
Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates River.
Flood in Egypt were:
Sumerians invented this. It was first made of stone and could help move carts from place to place.
What is a wheel.
Mesopotamia and Egypt formed their civilization around:
What is Rivers.
Leaders in Egypt usually came from the same family.
What is dynasty.
What river is the longest in the world?
What is the Nile River.
The Nile River began in Central __________ and ran north to the ______________.
What is Africa and Mediterranean Sea.
It was a method of writing that used different pictures on a clay tablet as a language.
What is Cuneiform
What do Mesopotamia and Egypt have in common as far as religion?
What is polytheism.
The writing system in Egypt was called _________ and the writing system for Mesopotamia was called ____________.
What are hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is The Land Between Rivers?
Name all the natural barriers Egypt had.
What is the desert from the east and the west, cataracts in the Nile, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea.
This was a list of laws that Babylonians had to follow
What is the code of Hammurabi
Both Mesopotamia and Egypt believe their leaders were chosen by:
What is Gods.
How do the rivers in these ancient societies differ?
The Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates flood every year. The floods in the Nile are more predictables.
Egypt was surrounding by two of these, which offered protection from invaders.
What are deserts.
The floods is Egypt were easy to:
What is predict.
What is a ziggurat?
A pyramid shaped temple
In both civilizations the main job people worked were:
What is farmers.
What is the difference between how the two civilization did burial?
What is mummifaction.
What make the Nile a natural barrier in the Nile?
The strong rapids in the river called cataracts
What writing form was created in Ancient Egypt?
Hieroglyphics
What major sea is northwest of Mesopotamia?
Mediterranean sea
Egyptians and Mesopotamians created what system to help them with farming.
What is irrigation.
Temples in Mesopotamia is called ______ and temples in Egypt are called_______
What is ziggurat and pyramids.