Mesopotamia & Egypt Quiz Review

Why was grave-robbing Egyptian pyramids so terrible?

Where is Mesopotamia located?

This is the world's first, and oldest, writing system...

Being able to get plenty of this resource helped Egypt become a strong and powerful kingdom

The Egyptian afterlife can be compared to this in Christianity

This characteristic of civilization means that society is organized in a way to meet all needs.

This process helps water from rivers to reach farms so that crops can properly grow.

This is a way to communicate using pictures and symbols instead of words and letters

According to Egyptian beliefs, this organ was needed to help them in the afterlife.

The world's first law code; advances the idea of "an eye for an eye" punishments.

Mesopotamia means...

This Mesopotamian story helps show the relationships between people and their gods...

In this type of society, religious beliefs form the basis for government.

This religion means you believe in more than one god

When early humans stopped being nomads, got permanent settlements, and grew crops it was called

This helped crack the code of how to translate hieroglyphics.

The Nile River provided Egypt with all of the following except...

The Fertile Crescent was a good place to settle because...

In ancient Egypt, what is the process of preserving a body and preparing it for the afterlife?

If you wanted to be able to read and write in the ancient world, you had to train for this job

This building was used as a religious temple in ancient Mesopotamia.

Nomads are people who...