Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question 1

Present day Iraq, Israel, Syria

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent

Question 2

Between Euphrates and Tigris River

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

When was the world’s first civilization created?

Answer 3

3300 BC

Question 4

World’s first civilization

Answer 4

Sumer

Question 5

What was the key to development for the Sumer?

Answer 5

Rivers

Question 6

What did the Sumer first make?

Answer 6

Four wheeled vehicles

Question 7

Believed in more than one god

Answer 7

polytheistic

Question 8

performed rituals, prayed, offered sacrifices in _____

Answer 8

ziggurats

Question 9

What did the Sumer believe in?

Answer 9

multiple gods/ after life

Question 10

Sumer invented the earliest known _____

Answer 10

writing

Question 11

What did the Sumer write on?

Answer 11

clay tablets

Question 12

What did the Sumer establish?

Answer 12

number system

Question 13

When did the Hammurabi take over?

Answer 13

1790 BC

Question 14

What did the Hammurabi code include?

Answer 14

civil and criminal law

Question 15

Laws that refer to divorce, taxes, businesses

Answer 15

civil

Question 16

Laws that refer to murder, assault, robbery

Answer 16

crime

Question 17

When did the Hittites come into power?

Answer 17

1400 BC

Question 18

Knowledge on how to extract iron ore, used to create tools and weapons

Answer 18

Hittites

Question 19

Who created a strong Babylonian empire in 612 BC?

Answer 19

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 20

What did Nebuchadnezzar surround the city with?

Answer 20

moat and 85 foot wall

Question 21

How many gates did Nebuchadnezzar have to allow people to pass through?

Answer 21

9

Question 22

Babylon fell into the Persian armies of who?

Answer 22

Cyrus the Great

Question 23

When did Darius create a vast empire?

Answer 23

500 BC

Question 24

What was the key to civilization in Egypt?

Answer 24

Nile River

Question 25

What was the benefit of having floods in Egypt?

Answer 25

Soaked land with water and rich soil

Question 26

What were the 2 regions of Egypt?

Answer 26

Upper and Lower

Question 27

Southern Egypt within 100 miles of the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 27

Upper

Question 28

Delta area near the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 28

Lower

Question 29

What were the 3 main periods of Egypt?

Answer 29

Old, Middle, New Kingdom

Question 30

Had pharohs with a strong central government and large bureacracy

Answer 30

Old Kingdom

Question 31

Tombs for deceased to live for eternity

Answer 31

Pyramid

Question 32

Power struggles, crop failures, invasions from foreign countries

Answer 32

Middle Kingdom

Question 33

Large empire created, power slowly declined

Answer 33

New Kingdom

Question 34

Who was the ruler of Egypt during the New Kingdom?

Answer 34

King Tut

Question 35

Who conquered the New Kingdom first?

Answer 35

Assyrians and Persians

Question 36

When did the Greeks take control?

Answer 36

332 BC

Question 37

When did the Romans take over?

Answer 37

30 BC

Question 38

Greek city that was militaristic

Answer 38

Sparta

Question 39

Greek city that has a direct democracy

Answer 39

Athens

Question 40

When did Mesopotamia start?

Answer 40

3300 BC

Question 41

When did Egypt start?

Answer 41

2000 BC

Question 42

When did Greece start?

Answer 42

500 BC

Question 43

When did Rome fall?

Answer 43

500 AD