Chapter 2 Jeopardy City-States in Mesopotamia and Pyramids on the Nile

GeographyFactsPoliticsMixed Bag

Row 1, Col 1 The region that is curved and has the most fertile soil What Fertile Crescent?

1,2 God-like kings found in Egypt What are Pharaohs?

1,3 Created 282 laws beginning in 1792 BC to provide law and order Who was Hammurabi?

1,4 The process in which a new idea spreads from one culture to another What is culture diffusion?

2,1 The word in Greek that means land between rivers. What is Mesoptamia?

2,2 Government based on religion. What is Theocracy?

2,3 He defeated the city-states of Sumer and created what is known to be the first empire Who Sargon of Akkad?

2,4 A broad, marshy area formed by silt at the mouth of a river What a delta?

3,1 The first city to create city-states – an area that is very similar to what independent countries are today Who was Sumer?

3,2 The belief in more than one god What is polytheism?

3,3 Royal and elite Egyptians were preserved by this so they could safely reach the other world What is mummification?

3,4 The earliest form of writing found in Egypt. What is hieroglyphics?

4,1 The Amorites when taking over Sumerians created the first empire – what was the capital city? What Babylon?

4,2 An Egyptian writing surface made out of reeds that grew in a marshy delta What is papyrus?

4,3 The two most important gods to the Egyptians. Who is Re (sun god) and Osiris (god of the dead)?

4,4 The two rivers that flow through Iraq into the Persian Gulf? What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

5,1 He united Lower Egypt with Upper Egypt? DAILY DOUBLE Who is Narmer?

5,2 The three pieces of advanced technology that came out of Sumer What is the wheel, sail and plow (bronze too!)?

5,3 Center of life – pyramid shaped building found in Sumer? What is a ziggurat?

5,4 The peninsula that connects Egypt to the Middle East. What is the Sinai Peninsula?