Early Civilizations
Nomadic hunter-gatherer groups lived in which temporary natural features?
Caves
Which of these innovations was created to improve agricultural production:
*Cuneiform Writing
*Stylus
*Lock and key mechanism
*Plow
Plow
The Nile Delta flows into which body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
A period of ten years
Decade
A form of government ruled by a king or queen as the head of state
Monarchy
The process of trading goods and services without the exchange of money?
barter
Which two rivers are associated with ancient Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates River
Who was the governmental leader who was seen as a god on earth and the link between the other gods and the Egyptian people
Pharaoh
The two time designations that measure time after the Birth of Jesus Christ
AD and CE
A collection of many different regions ruled over by a single supreme leader
Empire
Created stone tools to help improve daily life?
Hunter-gatherers
A Sumerian temple to worship the gods
Ziggurat
The Egyptian form of writing with over 700 picture symbols
Hieroglyphics
An approximate date
circa
Abbreviation: c. or ca.
A government ruled by a priest or religious leader
Theocracy
Which component of civilization documents about life, death, beliefs and values?
Religion
What is the lush quarter moon shaped area called where the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia developed?
Fertile Crescent
The Egyptians believed the soul needed to reunite with the body after judgement in the afterlife. The developed what to slow decomposition and preserve the body?
Mummification
A period of one hundred years
Century
Created the first written law code in Babylon
Which component of civilization creates laws and is in charge of trade?
Government
Who/what was in charge of the daily life and events in nature in ancient Mesopotamia?
The gods
First female pharaoh who improved finances in Egypt by improving trade
Hatshepsut
When doing timeline math and you're trying to find how many years passed between two events that are the same time period, what do you do?
Example: 500 BCE and 100 BCE
Subtract the numbers
Created the world's first empire in Akkad
Sargon