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Belief in many gods 1

What is polytheism? 1

Writing of the Ancient Egyptians. 2

What is hieroglyphics? 2

To trade without using money. 3

What is to barter? 3

Line of rulers from the same family 4

What is a dynasty? 4

Writing system of the Sumerians 5

What is cuneiform? 5

6 Protective “eye” and son of Isis

Who is Horus? 6

The only god of King Akhanaten. 7

Who is Aten? 7

God of the mummification process 8

Who is Anubis? 8

Wife/Sister of Osiris 9

Who is Isis? 9

Would eat your heart if it was heavier than the “Feather of Truth”. 10

Who is Ammit? 10

First person to translate hieroglyphics is over 1,000 years… 11

Who was Jean-Francois Champollion? 11

First person to discover King Tut’s tomb? 12

Who was Howard Carter? 12

The first civilization began in this region that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea 13

What is the Fertile Crescent?

First person to write a Code of Laws? 14

Who was Hammurabi? 14

First people to invent an alphabet. 15

Who were the Phonecians 15

These jars held internal organs. 16

What were canopic jars? 16

The mummification process took ____ days. 17

What is 70 days? 17

Which major organ was not considered important and was thrown out? 18

What is the brain? 18

Priests would read from the _______ during the ceremony 19

What is the Book of the Dead? 19

King Tut’s mummy was buried, not in a pyramid, but here. 20

What is the Valley of the Kings? 20

Between what 2 rivers was ancient Mesopotamia located? 21

What are the Tigris and Euphrates? 21

The first almost complete skeleton of a human was nicknamed… 22

What is Lucy? 22

Give an example of Absolute and Relative location 23

Absolute: Exact address (lat. And long. Or an address. Relative: Around, near, next to 23

Wrote the first set of laws which stated, “An eye for an eye…” 24

Who was Hammaurabi? 24

What does Paleolithic and Neolithic mean? 25

What is Old Stone Age and New Stone Age. 25