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World History pgs7-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A large land area in central and southeast africa with grasslands and scattered trees is the? | Savanna |
| The status of priests in Egyptian society was just below what? | Pharaohs |
| What has to happen for a person to enter the next life? | the body had to be preserved through mummification & religious rituals performed by the priests. |
| Skilled embalmers prepared the body by doing what? | removing the vital organs and drying and wrapping the body in strips of linen |
| The most famous burial tombs of ancient Egypt are? | the great pyramids at Giza near Cairo |
| The oldest remaining examples of the 7 wonders of the ancient world are? | the pyramids |
| whats the ancient egyptian system of writing that used pictures to represent words or syllables called? | Hieroglyphics |
| what is papyrus? | paper-like material made from a reed plant |
| When was Rosetta stone discovered? | the late 170s in egypt by napoleons armies. |
| longest river in the world? | nile |
| flat areas of land that sometimes form at the mouths of rivers where the river deposits sediment as they flow into the sea is called a? | delta |
| the sahara desert is the size of what? | the united states |
| whats the largest dry desert in the world? | the sahara desert |
| the sahara separates what from the sub-sahara africa? | north africa |
| Sub-sahara has been called "black Africa" because? | people living there have darker skin than north africans |
| it roughly took how many years for skin color to change from white to black as humans spread north of africa? (this is all page 8 from here up) | 20000 years. |
| what were the inventions of the bronze age? | wheel plow writing money cities armies and chariots |
| why is the bronze age important in history? | it is when civilization and writing mark the end of the prehistoric time and the beginning of the ancient times. |
| how long did the bronze age last and when did the iron age begin? | the bronze age lasted roughly 4000BC and the iron age began around 1000BC |
| after the first civilization arose between the tigris and euphrates river where did civilization spread? | civilization spread to the west of the nile river valley of egypt |
| where did the egyptians probably learn about the inventions from? | from mesopetamia: the irrigation plow writing and other technologies. |
| egypt is said to be the gift of the nile, why? | because the river provided irrigation water fertile soils due to annual floods and easy transportation by boat |
| what did the sahara desert do for the egyptians? | it provided natural barriers to enemies permitting ancient egyptian civlization to last for the last 3000 years, the longest in history(3100BC to 30 BC) |
| Ancient egyptians had what type of religion and what or who did they worship? | the had a polytheistic religion and worshiped mainly the important gods such as Ra god of sun and creator of life and osris god of rebirth |
| what all survived in egypt? | art literature and architecture survived from ancient egypt, and also huge tombs of the pharaohs the sphinx and the great pyramids near cairo (egypts modern day capitol) |
| what did the egyptians invent and who adopted it from them? | a 365 calendar based on the sun and the romans adopted it |
| what did the pharaohs wealth come from? | bountiful culture made possible by the nile |
| what controlled or tamed the nile and what did they also build? | irrigation systems and impressive temples |
| what was ramses famous for? | a warrior a builder |
| why was queen hatshepsut famous for? | first important queen to rule |
| who was the last royal person out of the thirty-one dynasties to rule over egypt? | cleopatra |
| what is king tut famous for? | his tomb being the only found out of all of the pharaohs still intact/ untouched from the grave robbers . found in 1920's |
| why was the government born? | to keep peace,make decisions and because societies grew larger. also to supply things merchants couldn't ex. water |
| what are/ were the major types of government in history? | monarchies based on royalty or dynasties (kings and queens), democracies (rule by people), and dictatorships ( one person take control of nation w/ help of/ from military |
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