a person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
What is a nomad?
100
a set of written laws that apply to everyone under one government.
What is Code of Laws?
100
When a religion worships only one god
What is monotheism?
100
The name for the king of Egypt. The top section of Egypt's social pyramid
Who is the pharaoh?
100
The reason life existed in Mesopotamia
What is Tigis and Euphrates river?
200
a system of writing using 800 pictures
What is cunieiform?
200
Flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates River
What is the reason the land was fertile?
200
When a religion worships more than one god
What is polytheism?
200
A system of writing made up of symbols and signs
What is hieroglyphics?
200
Domestication of plants and animals lead to the birth of _____ and the ability for people to settle in villages instead of rely on hunting and gathering.
What is farming?
300
this ruler believed that just laws would make his country prosper. One of his rules was 'eye for an eye'
Who is Hammurabi?
300
A fertile land mass created when the Niles empties
What is a delta?
300
How Egyptian society was shaped?
What is a social pyramid?
300
The bottom level of Egypt's social pyramid -
What is farmers, servants, slaves?
300
These are what is needed for a civilization to begin
What are a surplus of crops, division of labor, organized government and a written language?
400
an ancient empire that controlled the rivers, fought for land and had a king called Hammurabi?
What was the Babylonian Empire?
400
An invention that helped irrigate the land in Egypt.
What is a shadouf?
400
mummification
How did the Egyptians preserve bodies for the afterlife
400
The meaning of the name pharaoh
What is "great palace"?
400
early people choose to live in this are because of its place on the fertile crescent: access to Tigris and Euphrates, and access to rich soil
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The meaning of mesopotamia
What is a the land between two rivers?
500
an independent city an its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
500
Its a way the Egyptians were able to communicate
Why were Hieroglyphics written on papyrus?
500
Merchants, artisans, and scribes had more power than ______ and less power than _______.
Who are farmers servants slaves
and
nobles, priests, officials and the pharaoh?
500
This place is historically important because of their use of canals to irrigate crops, trading among city-states, using ziggurats to practice polytheism, and writing with cuneiform, and ruling with kings instead of priests