Geography
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Vocabulary
What is a Civilization?
100
The green portion of the map.
What is the fertile crescent?
100
Important inventions from the Sumerians
What is Cuneiform? What are Wheels? What is time?
100
three major periods of Ancient Egyptian History.
What are the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms?
100
Paleolithic Era
What is the "stone age"
100
Examples of this part of civilizations are Democracy, Monarchy, and Theocracy
What is a government?
200
Modern Day region of Mesopotamia
The Middle East
200
Hammurabi's major accomplishment
What is Hammurabi's law code?
200
Type of religion in Ancient Egypt
What is polytheism
200
Systemic Agriculture
What is the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis
200
Christianity, Islam, Judaism Etc
What is religion?
300
The river in Egypt where Egyptian Kingdoms are located.
What is the Nile River?
300
The first emperor who united the Sumerian city-states.
Who is Sargon the Great?
300
Middle kingdom was an age of _____
What is expansion?
300
Dynasty
What is a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the familiy
300
Paintings, Sculptures, Dance, Music, Pottery, Sewing
What is art?
400
The continent that Egypt is located in.
Where is Africa?
400
Writing system in Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
400
The old kingdom saw pharaohs as ____-like figures, while the middle kingdom saw pharaohs as Shepards.
Who is God?
400
Artisan
What is a skilled worker who makes products such as weapons or jewelery
400
Hieroglyphics and cuneiform
What is writing?
500
The two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
500
A leader who accepted other cultures and languages
Who is Cyrus the Great
500
A very important aspect of their culture and impacted all parts of their lives.
What is religion? What is the after-life?
500
Theocracy
What is a government established by divine authority.
500
What is social structure?