Vocabulary
Egyptian Gods
Famous People
Mesopotamia
Catch All
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Trade without using money.
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Egyptian form of writing
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What is hieroglyphics?
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To bring water to a place where there is none.
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What is irrigation?
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Paper that Egyptians wrote on
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What is papyrus?
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Belief in many gods
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What is polytheism?
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“God” that would eat your heart if you had done bad deeds in your life.
The chief or main god.
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Who is Amon Ra?
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God of the underworld. Was brought back to life
by his wife/sister.
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Priests would wear a mask of this god while
performing the embalming process.
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Son of Isis and Osiris. Pharaohs were buried
with his protective “eye”.
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Jean Francois Champollion translated
the __________.
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What is the Rosetta Stone?
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This pharaoh was known for wearing a false
beard.
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Who was Hatshepsut?
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This archaeologist discovered King Tut’s
tomb.
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Who is Howard Carter?
This is the first pharaoh of Egypt.
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Who is Narmer (Menes)?
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This Babyloian king created the first set of
written laws…an eye for an eye…
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Who was Hammurabi
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What two rivers were important to
Mesopotamians?
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What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
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This area lies between the Persian Gulf and Red
Sea and is where farming could occur.
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What is the Fertile Crescent?
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The wheel and sailboat were invented by these
people along with cuneiform.
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Who were the Sumerians?
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Who invented the alphabet that ours is
based on today?
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Who are the Phoenicians?
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One of the 7 Wonders of the world, this was
located in Babylon and was build by a king for
his wife.
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What are the Hanging Gardens?
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Why is King Tut famous?
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His tomb wasn’t robbed and had all of its gold?
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What were the containers that held internal organs
called?
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What are canopic jars?
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What is the what the pyramids are made of?
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Approximately how long is the Nile?
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What is 3,000 miles?
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What body of water does the Nile empty into?
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What is the Mediterranean Sea?
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