Download Egypt and a bit of Sumer Review

Egypt and a bit of Sumer Review
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Where is Egypt located in the world?
What are the two most important geographic feature to the ancient Egyptians? Why?
What is a cataract?
What is a delta?
What is the definition of polytheistic?
What is a pharaoh and why are they considered to be god-kings?
What is a theocracy?
What do the geography the Nile river valley and Mesopotamia have in common?
How did Egyptians control the flooding of the Nile river?
What was different about the flooding of Mesopotamia and Egypt? What was similar?
What is Lower Egypt and where is it located?
Which direction does the Nile river flow? Why?
What was Upper Egypt and where is it located?
Who is the person responsible for unifying the Old Kingdom? How did he do it?
What were the social classes like in Egypt? How did they compare to Mesopotamia?
Who were the important gods we have discussed in class and what were they the gods of?
What is mummification? How is it done and why?
What is the purpose and the importance of the pyramid?
What types of items were usually buried in pyramids with people? What were they for?
Which of the 3 kingdoms was the largest and most powerful?
What group invaded Egypt to bring the demise of the Middle Kingdom?
What was the Nile river used for other than farming and silt?
What is papyrus? How is it made and what is it made of?
How did hieroglyphics compare to cuneiform? How does it compare to the Phoenician alphabet?
What does it mean to have non rigid social classes?
Where is the Sinai Peninsula located?
Where was the Sahara located and why was it important?
What did the Egyptian calendar help predict?
What is cultural diffusion?
What was the earliest known permanent agricultural community?
What was the importance of Hammurabi’s Code?
What important inventions came from Mesopotamia? What inventions came from Egypt?
What are the five characteristics of a civilization?
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