Mesopotamia
This was the writing system developed in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
The leaders of Egypt were known as this.
What are Pharoahs?
This first civilization emerged as a set of city-states around 5000 years ago.
What is Sumer?
This longest river in the world and is a north-flowing river in Egypt.
What is the Nile ?
This describes objects made in the past -- often dug up by archaeologists?
What are artefacts?
Originating in Babylon, this was the first written system of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This was the purpose of the pyramids.
What is tombs?
The empire was famous for its Hanging Gardens and its leader Nebuchadnezzar.
What is the Babylonian Empire (Babylon)?
This describes the network of channels that guide water to crops.
What is irrigation?
This describes a document written by someone that witnessed or participated in an event.
What is a primary source?
What is polytheism?
What is Papyrus?
This civilization developed ironworking in Asia Minor (present-day Türkiye).
What are the Hittites?
This is the large body of water the Nile empties into -- and the location of Phoenicia's colonies.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This describes a document written by someone that did NOT witness an event (in History, often a historian).
What is a secondary source?
Perhaps the world's oldest literature is this Sumerian poem.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This empire was located to the south of Egypt and conquered the New Kingdom.
What is Nubia?
These are the two rivers that make up the 'fertile crescent' of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This refers to the development of farming -- an essential step towards civilization!
What is the Neolithic Revolution?