vocab

Question 1

What is the rich area of land that has a crescent shape?

Answer 1

Fertile Crescent

Question 2

What was the first general area of civilization?

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

What are cities that controlled the surrounding area and acted as an independent country?

Answer 3

City State

Question 4

What is a series of rulers that come from the same family?

Answer 4

Dynasty

Question 5

What is it called when culture spreads from one place to another?

Answer 5

Cultural Diffusion

Question 6

What is the belief that there is more than one god called?

Answer 6

Polytheism

Question 7

What brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under one ruler?

Answer 7

Empire

Question 8

Under what ruler did the Babylonian Empire reach its peak?

Answer 8

Hammurabi

Question 9

What was at the end of the Nile river?

Answer 9

Delta

Question 10

Which Egyptian King united Egypt as one?

Answer 10

Narmer

Question 11

What were Egyptian “God-Kings” called?

Answer 11

Pharaoh

Question 12

What kind of government is ruled by religious authority?

Answer 12

Theocracy

Question 13

What is the immense structure that is resting place of the pharaohs called?

Answer 13

Pyramid

Question 14

What was the preserving of the bodies called?

Answer 14

Mummification

Question 15

What is the Egyptian way of writing called?

Answer 15

Hieroglyphics

Question 16

What was the first paper like material that Egyptians created called?

Answer 16

Papyrus