Go With the Flow
This river flows through the Egyptian river valley civilization
What is the Nile River?
What two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This technology was used to divert water for crops for the first time by ancient Mesopotamians.
What is Irrigation?
The 3 kingdoms that historians use to break up ancient Egyptian history.
What are the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms?
This city would serve as the Hebrew capital for much of history.
What is Jerusalem?
These two rivers flow through the Mesopotamian River Valley Civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
In Greek, Mesopotamia means this
What is land between the rivers?
This land of rich farming land and rivers stretches from Mesopotamia to Egypt.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Pyramids were made for this purpose.
What is a Tomb for the Pharoah/burial?
According to the Torah, God revealed these to Moses at Mount Sinai.
What are the 10 commandments?
The first permanent settlements popped up along rivers during this era.
What is the Neolithic Era?
Fine, fertile soil that is carried by rivers
What is silt?
This is the name of the first major civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
This was ancient Egypt's form of writing.
What is Hieroglyphics?
The Hebrew religion was and still is a monotheistic religion. What does monotheistic mean?
What is worshiping one god?
This river flows through the Chinese River Valley Civilization
What is the Yellow River?
This early form of writing was written by pressing a wedge shaped stick into a clay tablet.
What is Cuneiform?
This pyramid-like temple structure was used by the ancient Mesopotamians for worship and sacrifice.
What is a ziggurat?
This text/book served as an instructional manual for reaching the afterlife in ancient egypt.
What is the book of the dead?
According to the Torah, during the Exodus, the Jewish people became enslaved by this people/nation.
What is Egypt?
These two rivers flow through the Indian River Valley Civilization
What are the Indus and Ganges?
This code was the the first written code of laws, and focused on punishments equal to the crime committed, "An eye for an eye".
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This Mesopotamian story is one of the oldest stories in existence and features a king who travels the world, performs great deeds & searches for a way to live forever
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This stone tablet was crucial for understanding/decoding the ancient Egyptian form of writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
After returning to Canaan the Jewish people formed this many tribes.
What is 12?