Vocabulary 1
What is a group of lands and people ruled by one government?
Empire
What is irrigation?
As _______ grew, people also began moving throughout the Egyptian empire.
Trade
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
land between two rivers
What were Mesopotamia's most important crops?
Wheat and barley
What is a professional writer who kept records?
Scribe
What is a drought?
A long period of dry weather.
What did ancient Egyptians believe about life after death, and what did they do to prepare for it?
They believed in an afterlife. They mummified people using strips of linen.
Why were scribes needed in Sumer?
to keep records.
Where was cuneiform developed?
Sumer
What is polytheism?
Believing in many gods.
What is monotheism?
Believing in one god.
What was ancient Egypt's economy based on?
Why did they build walls around city-states?
To protect from attacks from other city-states.
Why were the pyramids built?
As tombs for pharaohs
What is the Ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols?
Hieroglyphics
What is the system of writing that used wedge-shaped symbols, developed in Sumer?
What form of technology did ancient Egyptian farmers use to water their crops?
Why do Jewish people still celebrate Passover?
To remember their freedom from slavery.
Why were Mesopotamian floods both good and bad?
They made the land fertile, but there was too mcuh water.
What is the way people manage money and resources for the production of goods and services?
Economy
What is a self-governing city, often with surrounding lands/villages?
City-state.
What were the 2 rights of Egyptian slaves?
1. be treated fairly
2. own property
How did historians find out that religion was important to Sumerians?
What set the Israelites apart from other people living in the Fertile Crescent?
They were monotheistic: they believed in one god.