Mesopotamia and Egypt Test 2022

Hammurabi lived in Babylon, which was part of Ancient Egypt.

What river civilization wrote using picture symbols or hieroglyphics?

In Meso, the farmers were in the middle class, but in Egypt they were in the lowest class.

What type of writing is pictured?

What body of water does the Nile empty into?

What is the importance of living in a river valley?

What is the belief in many gods?

Only pharaohs were mummified.

What were the laws from God that became part of the Hebrew Bible?

Who is the Egyptian god of death?

Using the map, what river valley is represented by the letter B?

Which person is a record keeper who learned how to write?

What natural barriers protected Egypt and Mesopotamia?

In what direction does the Nile River flow?

Which of the following geographic features most likely helped early civilizations develop trade?

What geographic feature did early civilizations settle near?

Which description below describes hieroglyphics?

Which of the following would be in the Egyptian lower class?

What is the Sumerian system of writing?

A word for gods and goddesses

Which of the following people would be in Sumer’s upper class?

What organ was not removed from the body when mummifying a body because it needed to be judged?

Which one of the following is NOT a time period in Ancient Egypt's history?

What is a line of rulers from the same family called?

What protected Egypt from outside invaders?

Using the map, what river valley is represented by the letter A?

Which description below describes cuneiform?

Which best explains what a river delta is?

A shadoof is a weapon invented by the Egyptians.

Which of the following would be in the Egyptian middle class?

Who was the king of Babylon that was the first to write down laws?

What river(s) flowed through Egypt?

What is the importance of living in a river valley?

What type of writing is pictured?

Which of the following people would be in Sumer’s lower class?

Writing allowed civilizations to keep accurate records, including tax records and records of events.

Which of the following would be in the Egyptian upper class?

Egyptian kings were called

What is the process of preserving a body after death?

In Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, a person’s social status was primarily determined by wealth and occupation.

What is the largest desert in the world?

What is an area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river called?

What river civilization built pyramids as tombs?

What is a mountain like stone structure used as a tomb?

Hammurabi's Code was the first set of written laws.

What is a system of writing used by the ancient Egyptians?

What is the name of a Sumerian temple built for the gods to live?

What are very small particles of soil or rock in a river that makes the soil very fertile?

What is a body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen called?

What is the longest river in the world that runs through Egypt?

What was the material used in the mummification process that would dry out the body?

What river(s) flowed through Mesopotamia?

Which man is the founder or father of Judaism?

What is a reed plant along the Nile used to make rafts, sandals, and paper?

Mesopotamia is the land between these two rivers?

As Egyptian city where the largest pyramid is found

What is an independent state made up of a city and surrounding villages?

Mountains provided a natural barrier that protected civilizations from attack.

Large tombs for the pharaohs are called