Vocabulary
Egypt
Rise of Cities
Hammurabi's Code
100
This is a resource that comes directly from nature.
What is a Natural Resource?
100
This is the Ancient Egyptians' writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
This resource was what people of ancient Mesopotamia farmed.
What is wheat?
100
These things determined the laws of Hammurabi's Code.
What are gender and social class?
200
This occurs when there is an extra amount of a resource, good, or service.
What is a surplus?
200
This procedure was very important to the Egyptian culture because they believed it sent the soul of their loved ones to a great afterlife.
What is mummification?
200
These structures allowed water to remain near the crops, even during droughts.
What are canals?
200
The _________ of Hammurabi's code is to protect the people and to allow a system of justice
What is the purpose?
300
This allows large pieces of farmland to be nourished with water.
What is irrigation?
300
This natural resource was enormously important to the ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
300
Farming technology and specialization of labor caused this to happen.
What is population growth?
300
A _________ would get more severe punishment if they hit their __________, under Hammurabi's code.
What is a serf or plebian and superior?
400
This peron's only job was to copy down important documents.
What is a scribe?
400
This building was meant to pay tribute to a pharoah after he had died.
What is a pyramid?
400
This kind of organization includes leadership, trade, specialized workers, and different social levels.
What is a city?
400
This is more important to Hammurabi than the rights of individuals.
What is the protection of the state?
500
This kind of development has a steady food supply, rich culture, government, as well as social levels.
What is a civilization?
500
Ra, Isis, Osiris, Horus
What are the main gods and goddesses of Egypt?
500
This is when people have different skills that allow them to create goods or do services, rather than do the same work that the rest of the community is doing.
What is specilization of labor?
500
This is the kind of statement that Hammurabi's Code is written in.
What are conditional statements?