Quiz For Oct6 2015 Flashcards
What river goes with each civilization Egypt Mesopotamia India China
Nile
Tigris and Euphrates
Indus and Ganges river
Huang he and yangazi river
What were the advantages of river valleys
Rich soil for farming and protected them from invasions
What is the nickname of river valleys
Cradles of civilization
What was irrigation meant
Fields had a consistent source of water
What was the most important feature in Egypt
The Nile river
What is a delta
A triangular area of water that flows into a larger body of water
Where does the Nile flow and what sea does it connect too
It flows north and it connects to the Mediterranean Sea
What happens every spring at the Nile
It overflows its banks and it floods the surrounding landscape
What did the floods deposit of
Silt
What did the Egyptians use the floods for
To irrigate their crops and store water
What were the achievements of the old kingdom and what were the downsides of it
Pyramids
1 crop failures
2pyramids cost a lot of money
What were the achievements of the Middle Kingdom and what were the downsides
1drained large areas of land to be used for farming
2occupied kush
3 greater contact with people of the Middle East
Invaded by the Hyksos
Who was important during the new kingdom and what were the downsides
Queen Hatshepsut
Pharoah Ramses ii
Invaded by several different people
Fell to the Nubians
Nubians restored Egypt
What did the pharaoh Hatshepsut do
A queen who ruled as a pharaoh for 20 years
Her region was one of the most peaceful in Egyptian history
What did the pharaoh Ramses ii do
Ruled for 66 years and built huge monuments of himself
Define hierarchy
System of ranking groups
Define Ziggurat
A large stepped platform for the use of ceremonies and sacrifices
Cuneiform
A system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
Fertile Crescent
Region of the Middle East in which civilization first arose
Silt
Rich soil from the Nile
Cataract
A waterfall
Delta
Triangular area of marsh land formed by deposits of silt
Dynasty
Ruling familiy
Pharaoh
Title of rulers of ancient Egypt
Vizier
Chief minister who supervises the buisness of government in ancient Egypt
Mummification
The preservation of dead bodies
Hieroglyphicis
System of writing in which pictures represent objects
Ideogram
Pictures that symbolize an idea or action
Demotic
Denoting or relatins to the kind of languages used by regular people
Papyrus
Plant used to make paper
Decipher
To figure out the meaning of
Fertile Crescent
Arc of land that stretches from the Mediterranean in the west to the Persian gulf in the east that includes Mesopotamia
