WH Ch 1 Test Flashcards
5 innovations of the Summerians
Cuneiform
Wagon wheel
Sundial
Bronze
3 mathematical and scientific advances of the Sumerians
Devised # system based on 60
Geometry
Charted heavenly constellations
This epic poem told of King Gilgamesh exploits
Epic of Gilgamesh
2 rivers that make up the Nile River
Blue Nile
White Nile
3 time periods of Egyptian history and the time period they existed
Old Kingdom 2700bc-2000bc
Middle Kingdom 2055-1670 BC
New Kingdom 1550-1070
What was the city of the dead
Large and small pyramid for ? And masons
Egyptians learned how to make bronze for tools and weapons and how to master the use of a horse drawn chariots from which group of people
Hyksos
One of the first Egyptian women to become a pharaoh
Harsheasut
This Pharoah tried to make Egyptian monotheistic
Kheuaten
4 levels of Egyptian society hierarchy
Pharoah
Priests
Merchants, artisans, scribe and tax collector
Peasants