Lesson 1:
The First Communities
The First Communities
This is where the earliest humans lived.
What is in temporary shelters like caves?
This is a large city that is an independent state.
What is a city-state?
This is an Egyptian king.
What is a pharaoh?
This is what monotheism is.
What is believe in a single god?
Lesson 2:
This is one of the earliest forms of writing, using wedge shapes to stand for parts of words.
What is cuneiform writing?
This important thing happened during the New Stone Age.
What is people first began to farm and raise animals.
This is where Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Egyptians create this made of reed, laid in to strips, layered together to form a mat, and then glued together to form a long sheet.
What is a papyrus scroll?
They were the first culture to fist practice monotheism.
Who are the Hebrews?
Lesson 4:
This is for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built for.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
This is when people first began to cultivate crops.
What is during the New Stone Age?
Thes are the people who created the earliest known civlization.
Who were the Sumerians?
This is what the Egyptians believed happened to a person after he or she died.
What is part of the person's soul, called the Ka, lived on and did the same kind of things that the living person had done.
They sailed around the Mediterranean, explored parts of Africa and Europe, set up trading settlements, and created a writing system based on the alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Lesson 3:
His tomb and treasures were found by an archaeologist and seen by people all over the world.
Who is Tutankhamen? (King Tut)
This best describes a civilization.
What is a large society that is high organized?
This is the king who put together a famous set of laws.
Who was Hammurabi?
These are the two great civilizations of the Nile.
What are Egypt and Nubia?
These were the three great cities of the Fertile Crescent.
What is Babylon, Ninevah, and Carthage?
Lesson 3:
This is how scholars learn to read Egyptian hieroglphs?
What is from Champollion's decoding of the Rosetta Stone?
This is what all four early civilizations have in common.
What is located in river valleys?
What is creating the first empire?
This is what Menes did for Egypt.
What is united Upper and Lower Egypt and became its first ruler?
The empire of the Persian king Darius I was unusual because of this.
What is it was divided into provinces, each with a ruler appointed by Darius.
Lesson 3:
It was the center of Nubian culture from the third century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E.
What is Meroe?