Chapter 3: The First Writing

Question 0

The Egyptians wrote with pictures called …..

Answer 0

hieroglyphics

Question 1

They were among the earliest people to use writing

Answer 1

The Egyptians

Question 2

The people who lived in ___________ found a better way to write using wet clay.

Answer 2

Sumer

Question 3

People in Sumer wrote with pictures called……

Answer 3

cuneiform a

Question 4

The Egyptians carved their pictures into what?

Answer 4

stone tablets

Question 5

Mesopotamia is located where? (Hint: hippopotamus; me so means between)

Answer 5

Between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Question 6

What did the Sumerians do with their tablets after they carved them?

Answer 6

They baked them until they were hard

Question 7

Papyrus

Answer 7

A special kind of paper made by the Egyptians

Question 8

What is one thing that was not good about papyrus?

Answer 8

It would fall apart

Question 9

Mesopotamia means…..

Answer 9

between two rivers

Question 10

Egyptian paper was made from______ that grew along the banks of the Nile

Answer 10

reeds