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Unit Test Part 1
Mesopotamia & Egypt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did people get food before the development of agriculture? | Hunting and gathering |
| Another word for farming | Agriculture |
| The first steps to becoming civilized are... | settling down in permanent homes and to start farming |
| 4 great river valley civilizations | Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China |
| All of the first civilizations developed around what? | Near great rivers |
| Two main reasons why rivers were important to early farming civilizations | Fresh water and Fertile soil |
| Why did river valleys have fertile soil? | Yearly flooding left behind silt |
| What is irrigation? | A way of supplying water to an area of land |
| 2 rivers of Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates |
| The arc-shaped area of land with rich soil where many of the first civilizations began | Fertile Crescent |
| 1st civilization in Mesopotamia (They also invented the first writing system) | Sumerian |
| First known written language | Cuneiform |
| Great Babylonian King | Hammurabi |
| 1st set of laws written down | Code of Hammurabi |
| Group best known for their iron weapons and chariots | Hittites |
| Group best known for their fierce and organized soldiers | Assyrians |
| The first pharaoh who united Upper and Lower Egypt | Narmer/Menes |
| What protected Egypt from invaders | Natural barriers |
| Egypt kings were called | pharaohs |
| Define monarchy | Type of government in which one king rules |
| Type of government in which a series of rulers come from the same family | Dynasty |
| Period in which the pyramids were built | Old Kingdom |
| Period when Egypt had the most glory and power | New Kingdom |
| Group that invaded and took over Egypt during the Middle Kingdom | Hyksos |
| Type of religion the Egyptians practiced | Polytheism |
| Define polytheism | belief in many gods |
| define monotheism | belief in one god |
| why did the Egyptians make mummies? | to preserve bodies for the afterlife |
| Purpose for building the great pyramids | to serve as tombs (burial sites) for dead pharaohs |
| why did the Egyptians bury their dead with personal items? | |
| Ancient Egyptian writing | Hieroglyphics |
| What is papyrus? | Paper-like material made from the reeds of a plant |
| What is a scribe? | Person who can read and write |
| Continent that Egypt is on | Africa |
| Climate in Egypt | Desert (hot and dry) |
| Significance of the Rosetta Stone | It helped people learn to understand hieroglyphics |
| River that contributed to the development of Egypt | the Nile |
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