Farming
What did Mesopotamians and Egyptians build to get water from the rivers to the crops?
Canals
What was the main city in ancient Mesopotamia?
Babylon
What is the writing in ancient Mesopotamia called?
Cuneiform
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Treat others the way you would like to be treated.
Where did the ancient mesopotamians worship?
Temples on top of ziggurats
What river was important to ancient Egyptians?
The Nile
What was built in Babylon for the king's wife?
The Hanging Gardens
What is the writing in ancient Egypt called?
Heiroglyphs
What were the rulers of Mesopotamia called...kings or pharaohs?
Kings
What does polytheistic mean?
It means many gods
How did the flooding of the Nile river help Egyptian farmers?
It brought minerals to the farmland.
What was on top of the Great Pyramid?
Gold
What are the people who did the writing called?
Scribes
Name one of the famous pharaohs in ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh Khufu, Khafre, Hatshepsut, Thutmose
Egyptian gods and goddesses were depicted with what features?
animals and people
Who helped with farming?
Everyone in the family helped
Are these areas rainforests, deserts, or forests?
Deserts
What did Mesopotamians carve the cuneiform on?
Tablets
Who had the Sphinx built?
Khafre
How did they explain the sun rising and setting?
They believed that a god sailed across the sky with the sun in a boat.
What are two things the Mesopotamians and Egyptians used the rivers for?
drinking, fishing, traveling
Where were the cities built...in the middle of the desert OR on the banks of the rivers?
Near the rivers
What was the early type of paper that ancient Egyptians used called?
Papyrus
What did the rulers want to have buried with them?
Gold, jewelry, special items
What animal was the god Horus depicted as?
A black cat