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MESOPOTAMIA

  1.  What does Mesopotamia mean?
  2.  Mesopotamia was between which two rivers?
  3.  Why are rivers important for civilizations?
  4.  Name three of Mesopotamia’s civilizations?
  5.  Name at least one famous Mesopotamian king?
  6.  What was the name of Mesopotamian writing?
  7.  What was the first use for writing?
  8.  Name two other ancient civilizations, often referred to as ‘river civilizations’, apart from Mesopotamia
  9.  Kings in these civilizations did three things: led the A_______, made the L_________ and was the R________ leader.
  10.  Which was the biggest city in the world 5,000 years ago?
  11.  Which was the first city in the world?
  12.  What was the first building constructed in the world’s first city?
  13.  Were there slaves in the world’s first civilization?
  14.  The Mesopotamians were polytheistic? What does this mean?
  15.  What was Hammurabi’s Code?
  16.  Name one law from Hammurabi’s Code?
  17.  Why is Eridu famous in world history?
  18.  Who or what was Gilgamesh?
  19.  What was the name for a temple in Mesopotamia?
  20.  Name one famous story from Mesopotamia?
  21.  Which Mesopotamian empire ruled the largest territory?
  22.  Which civilization conquered Mesopotamia in the 6thcentury BC and thus ended Mesopotamian civilization?
  23.  In architecture the Mesopotamians invented which two things? V_________ and the A________
  24.  What were scribes?
  25.  True or false: the scribes were the most important people in Mesopotamian society after the king.
  26.  Name the famous story from Mesopotamia that is also mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible: The E______ of G_____________
  27.  What was the ‘Fertile Crescent’ in Antiquity
  28.  What was Antiquity? Give the dates
  29.  COMPARE Mesopotamia with Ancient Egypt
  30.  EXPLAIN why life was hard in Mesopotamia
  31.  EXPLAIN why agriculture began in Mesopotamia
  32.  EXPLAIN what is meant by the Word ‘civilisation’ and in what ways was Mesopotamia ‘civilised’
  33.  EXPLAIN what you know about the inventions of Mesopotamia

ANCIENT EGYPT

  1. What does the word Pharaoh mean?
  2.  How did the ancient Egyptians call Egypt? K________
  3.  Why did the ancient Egyptians refer to Egypt as the Black Land?
  4.  What was the name given to the ‘paper’ invented by the ancient Egyptians?
  5.  Why was Tutankhamun important for the ancient Egyptians?
  6.  What animals represented Upper and Lower Egypt?
  7.  What did Akhenaten do during his reign that transformed Egypt?
  8.  What does Kemet mean?
  9.  What was the name of ancient Egyptian writing?
  10.  Were the ancient Egyptians Polytheistic or Monotheistic?
  11.  What is interesting about Abu Simbel?
  12.  Name the ancient Egyptian god of the sun
  13.  Name the three Pyramids at Giza
  14.  Why did they build the pyramids in the shape of a pyramid?
  15.  Name the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms
  16.  In which kingdom did they build the pyramids?
  17.  Why did they build the pyramids and tombs on the western side

of the Nile?

18. Name one ancient Egyptian temple

19. Name one ancient Egyptian tomb that is not Abu Simbel

20. Ancient Egypt was divided into two distinct areas, which were they?

21. What desert is south of ancient Egypt? N__________

22. Who was the first Pharaoh?

23. Who was the last Pharaoh?

24. What does Kemet mean?

25. Name one female Pharaoh other than Cleopatra

26. Give the dates for ancient Egypt 3________ to 3________ BC

27. Which was the first pyramid? D_____________ at Saqqara by Imhoptep

28. What Neolithic invention gave us organized religion in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia?

29.  Why did the ancient Egyptians worship cats?

30. What does sarcophagus mean?

31. True or False: Slaves built the pyramids

32. How oldare the pyramids?

33. What was the capital of Lower Egypt? M_____________

34. What was the capital of Upper Egypt? T__________

35. What did they use hieroglyphics for?

36. Name one other form of script used in Ancient Egypt

37. EXPLAIN the process of mummification

38. EXPLAIN why Tutankhamun was important

39. EXPLAIN the culture and achievements of ancient Egypt

40. EXPLAIN what you know about the pyramids

41. EXPLAIN why the Nile was so important for Egypt and how they used it

42. EXPLAIN what you know about the Rosetta Stone