Mesopotamia and Egypt

Between which two rivers is the Fertile Crescent?

If you didn't pass the hearth weighing ceremony test, you would get....

City-state

Epic of Gilgamesh

What did the Nile River leave behind when it flooded?

Ancient writing system used by the ancient Egyptians.

What does Mesopotamia mean?

What helped translate the ancient Egyptian system of writing so that we can now read it?

Papyrus

A series of rulers who come from the same family is called what?

Which organ was not removed during mummification?

In what modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly?

Cuneiform

Egyptian women had a wide range of....

How did Egyptians pull out the brain during the mummification process?

Hammurabi's Law Code

The greatest sailors at this time were

Clay tablets

How long ago did ancient Egyptians live?

Where was ancient Egypt?

What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?

what is a mummy?

what was the first writing called?

The Nile River flows into the Pacific Ocean.

What was the mummified body covered in to remove moisture?

Hieroglyphics

What structure was built out of sun-dried bricks & used for religious purposes in Mesopotamia? 

what would family members leave inside a sarcophagus?

What was the result of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone

Which of the following dates came first?

Which was NOT invented by the Sumerians?

Rulers believed they were living god

Who was at the bottom of Egyptian hierarchy?

Oldest form of writing in the world.

Pyramids

Cuneiform is to __________ as Hieroglyphic is to _____________

To earn their way into the afterlife Egyptians thought you had to go through which ceremony?

where is the Fertile Crescent?

Why is the Fertile Crescent important?

What is the name of a Mesopotamian temple?

Why did the Egyptians mummify their bodies?

Oldest story in the world

Who is the first Pharaoh of Egypt? He united upper and lower Egypt.

Sumerians were defeated by the...

In the Paleolithic Era, people

Mummies

Egyptian king who united upper and lower Egypt.

Type of religion in Egypt?

Ziggurats

Which Persian king conquered an empire in Mesopotamia to spread the Zoroastrian religion? 

Who is the pharaoh who died in his teens, was married to his step-mom/sister?

Sumerians and Egyptians had many gods. What is that called?

What did Herodotus mean when he called Egypt the gift of the Nile?

what was the favorite animal of the ancient Egyptians?