World History (Patterns of Interaction) - Chapter 1 - 2.2

What was one way the Nile River impacted ancient Egyptians?

What do anthropologists do?

Before Egypt was unified into one country it consisted of two kingdoms referred to as

What helped the Egyptians travel from north to south on the Nile?

Who defeated the city-states of Sumer around 2350 B.C.?

Civilization is generally talking about

The biological species to which modern humans belong.

Which Sumerian city was located on the banks of the Euphrates River?

What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?

One practical reason Egyptians developed a calendar was to

What paper-like material did the Ancient Egyptians use for writing?

The leader who was famous for a uniform code of laws that unified his empire was

What did Egyptian priests observe just before the floods came?

Stone Age peoples on all continents

What was the system of writing that the Sumerian scribes created?

The Egyptian god Re (Ra) is

What hominids were the first to migrate, use tools, use fire, and maybe develop language?

How did Narmer symbolically unify Lower and Upper Egypt?

Hammurabi was a

By assembling the peoples and nations of northern and southern Mesopotamia, Sargon of Akkad

The legendary figure Narmer is famous for being

Slash-and-burn farming refers to

In Sumer, priests shared power with military leaders called lugals? What does "lugal mean?

Which three things led to the rise of civilizations?

What important characteristic did "Lucy," the earliest hominid yet found, have?

Why did the Egyptians build pyramids to house the pharaohs' bodies?

The belief in many gods is called

A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler:

The Neolithic Revolution refers to the time when early humans

To cultivate more land and to produce extra crops, ancient people in larger villages,

What protected Egypt from invaders?

The archaeological discoveries at Catal Huyuk added to our understanding of early

The type of government that is based upon religious authority is called a

Prehistory refers to the time

What is the process of embalming and drying corpses to prevent them from decaying?

The Egytian god Osiris is the

What did the discoveries in the Shanidar cave reveal about the Neanderthals?

The taming of animals for human use is referred to as

What is silt?

In Sumerian culture, during times of war

As people settled in stable communities based on agriculture,

What did Mary Leakey's discovery of footprints indicate about hominids?

In the fifth century B.C. the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, referred to Egypt as the

What helped Egyptians travel from south to north on the Nile?

A form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money is called

To win Eternal life, the heart of each person could be no heavier than a

The Egytian god Isis is the

Ancient Egyptian history is divided into 3 periods of prosperous kingdoms. What are they?

What is a dynasty?

Historical narratives and epic poetry were examples of what characteristic of civilization?

The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another is called

The Bronze Age began around

What was one environmental challenge the people of Sumer faced in Mesopotamia?

Two characteristics that helped define a civilization are

What do archaeologists do?

What is a pharaoh?

Upper Egypt was located in the

The Ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds?

What did archaeologists learn about life in Ur from discovering the ziggurat?

The main result of the domestication of animals was that humans

Where are the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys found?

Lower Egypt was located in the

What do paleontologists do?

What is one reason hunter-gatherers may have led a nomadic life?

Sumerians believed that every city

What is the name of the river that Egyptian civilization emerged around?

The Bronze Age started in