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World History Pg 7&8
World History Note Cards pages 7-8
| Questions | Answer |
|---|---|
| What 2 metals are used to make Bronze? | Copper and Tin |
| What are 2 examples of things invented during the Bronze Age? | wheel, plow, writing, money cities, armies and/or chariots |
| What is Egypt said to be? | "gift of the Nile" |
| What way did the current flow on the Nile river? | North |
| Why is the Nile river considered sacred? | It seperates the "land of the dead" and the "land of the living". |
| What are Egypts two main geographic features? | The Nile and the Sahara Desert |
| What type of religion did the ancient Egyptians have? | Polytheistic |
| What celestial body is the ancient Egyptians calender based on? | The sun/solar |
| Who are the kings of anciant egypt? | Pharoahs |
| Where did the Pharoahs wealth come from. | Bountiful agriculture made possible by the Nile |
| Who was the last queen of the 31 dinestyes. | Cleopatra |
| Who was the best known Pharoah that died at age 18. | King tut |
| What are the 3 major types of government | Democracy,monarchy,Dictatorship. |
| How di a person enter the next life? | The body had to be perserved by mummification and religious rituals by priests |
| What were the most famous burial tombs in ancient Egypt? | Great Pyramids at Giza near Ciaro |
| The built the Great Pyramids without these? | Iron tools and wheeled vehicles |
| What is the sphinx? | a great rock sculpture with head of a Pharaoh and the body of a lion |
| How was papyrus made? | it was made by reed plants that was pressed and dried |
| Where and by who was the Rosetta Stone discovered? | In Egypt by Napoleons army in the late 1700s. |
| Who was the Rosetta stone written in? | Hieroglyphs, with a translation in Greek. |
| What did the Rosetta stone contain? | It contained a range of Love poems to surgical procedures. |
| What is a large land area in central and southeast Africa with grassland and scattered trees? | A Savanna |
| How long is the Nile river? | It is 4000 miles long. |
| Which way does it flow? | North |
| `What are Egypt's two largest cities? | They are Cairo and Alexandria |
| Where are Cairo and Alexandria located? | They are located on the Nile River delta. |
| What is compared by size to the Sahara Desert? | About the size of the United States. |
| What does the Sahara desert separate. | It separates North Africa from sub-Saharan Africa. |
| What is the Sub-Saharan Africa nick-named? | "Black Africa" |
| How long did it take for humans skin color to change from black to white as humans spread north out of Africa? | 20,000 years |
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