Ancient Civilizations Review

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Egyptian hieroglyphics were a mystery until a soldier uncovered the ______ _____ a boulder with the same message etched

Sumer and other Mesopotamian settlements were _______ ________, which were made up of the city and surrounding farmland.

Term historians use to describe a culture that has reached a certain level of development:

Jews worship in a temple or

Muslims must fulfill the obligations called the ...

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_______________’s Code brought some justice and fairness to the idea of law in Babylon.

Egyptian pyramids were built for this purpose:

For Muslims, this begins in the year AD 622

50. An early form of paper used in Egypt was made from this reed, growing along the Nile:

Muslims believe that ___________ is the last and greatest prophet of Allah.

Muslims believe that ________ is the last and greatest prophet of Allah:

Christians believe that Jesus is the _______ __ ____________and that He is the Messiah.

Land between the rivers in Mesopotamia was referred to as the Fertile __________.

The first real civilization and earliest city-state in Mesopotamia was ________

The Mesopotamian civilization (today’s Iran, Iraq & Syria) developed in this region:

Sumerian inventions:

The first woman Pharaoh was ______

The Gregorain calendar (used in the US) marks AD1 as the year of

Government type where the ruler is both a religious leader and a king:

City-states in Mesopotamia used this type of government, ruled by a person who is both a religious leader and king:

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Pyramids were used as _________ for the Pharaohs.

Egyptians were ruled by a series of __________, who were kings/queens that were both religious leader & ruler of Egypt

Geographic feature distinguishing Ancient China from other early civilizations were high __________ which limited access

The two main sects (religious groups) of Muslims are __________ and __________ (choose both answers)

Place of worship for the followers of Islam

Sumer was eventually conquered by the kingdom of Akkad, then by _____ in ~1800 BC.

 Civilization that began around 3500 BC, developing between the ___ and ___ Rivers:

Narrow man-made body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea: ________ _________

Man-made body of water connecting Mediterranean and Red Seas

The first woman pharaoh was ________,

In the Islamic faith,____________ is the month of fasting from sunrise to sunset.

Sumer was a_____, made up of the city and the surrounding farmland.

List Islam’s Five Pillars of Faith (choose all correct answers)

Mecca is a city in this large Arab country

Traits of a Civilization include food surplus, social classes and... (mark all correct choices)

The Nile River delta is a fan-shaped area of fertile land formed at the _________ of the river:

A green area in a desert, fed by underground water

All but one are types of Christianity; which one is NOT a type of Christianity?

Land between rivers containing soil left behind by the rivers after flooding is a(n) ____ Plain

Principal figures in Judaism are ___________and the prophet _____________ (choose two)

Belief in one supreme god is

Jewish holy book