Stone Age
The time period before writing was invented.
What is prehistory
The part of the Middle East located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
What caused the shift from the Old to the New Stone Age?
The lord of the Egyptian Gods
What is Amon-Re
Preservation of dead bodies by embalming them and wrapping them in cloth.
What is Mummification
People who moved from place to place to find food.
What is a nomad
A system of ranking groups
What is hierarchy
What types of jobs did people have in Egypt?
Lower class=Farmers/slaves
The Egyptian God of the Dead
Who is Osiris
Leader of the Egyptian Gov't, also was a key part of religion and seen as being part God.
Pharaohs
The study of past people and cultures through their material remains.
What is archaeology
List three lasting effects of Mesopotamian Society.
Writing, 60 minute hour, 360 degree circle.
A system of government that includes departments and levels of authority.
What is bureaucracy
Egyptian pharaoh who changed Egyptian religion to only worshiping one God while he ruled.
What is Akhenaton
What were the pyramids used for?
As necropolises to house the dead.
The belief in many gods
What is polytheistic
The style of writing developed by the Sumer civilization. It used wedge shaped tools and clay.
What is Cuneiform
Chief Minister in the Egyptian government, worked directly under the pharaoh.
What is a vizier
Name three significant achievements by the Egyptian culture
What is Geometry, 12 month calendar, new writing language, Astronomy, Medicine
What was the key thing that allowed Egypt to civilize?
The Nile River, it flooded yearly and provided fertile farmland.
The study of the origins and the development of people.
Anthropology
Name 5 of the 7 basic features of a civilization
What is Government, Religions, Job Specialization, Social Classes, Art + Architecture, Public Works, Writing
This unlocked the Egyptian language for scholars in the 1800's.
What is the Rosetta Stone
What was the Egyptian's belief in the After Life? What process did they have to go through?
What is they believed in Eternal Life, had to pass a test with Osiris to determine they were not a sinner. (Weighed heart vs feather of truth)
The Egyptian form of writing that used symbols to represent objects, sounds, and concepts.
Hieroglyphics