Download EARLY CIVILIZATIONS NOTESHEET I. PART ONE: EGYPT

EARLY CIVILIZATIONS NOTESHEET
I. PART ONE: EGYPT
* Another name for the banks along the Nile River:
*People of Egypt have relied on the Nile’s_____________________________.
Facts:
1)
2)
3)
*Small Egyptian Kingdoms were ruled by the……
*Egyptian Dynasty:
1)
2)
3)
*People considered their kings to be:
*Define Theocracy:
*To help the Egyptian king rule he delegated many responsibilities to a bureaucracy=
*Some duties the king carried out:
*Purpose for building the pyramids:
*Before entombing a dead king in his pyramid, Egyptains…….
*Egyptian prince who founded the 1st dynasty of the New Kingdom:
*Pharaoh means:
*Ancient Egypt was home to…..
*Levels of Society:
Upper Class=
Middle Class= artisans, scribes, merchants, tax collectors-“business activities”
Lower Class=
*Define Polytheism:
*What did Egyptian gods look like?
*God of the NILE & of life, death, and rebirth=
II. PART TWO: FERTILE CRESENT
*At the same time Egyptian nomads moved into the Nile river valley- migrants started to
head:
*What present day countries make up the “FERTILE CRESENT”:
*Sumerian Civilization was located in the….
*What is a “City-State”-
*How many city-states did the Sumerians have?
*Sumer city-states all shared a ______________________:
*Each Sumerian city-state usually……
*________ exercised great authority over their _______________& ________________.
*What was one Law Code that the Sumerians had:
*What do archaeologists believe about the Sumerians writing system?
*Explain a little bit about the “Cuneiform system”:
*Egyptians & Sumerians both practiced a:
*What did Sumerians think about their gods & goddesses?
*If Sumerian gods got angry what did they do according to what Sumerians thought?
*What did Sumerians think about the afterlife?
III. PART THREE: FIRST MESOPOTAMIA EMPIRES
*The Sumerians fell to the :
*Where was the dynasty that the ___________________ built:
* What were 3 things that Hammurabi did after taking power of Mesopotamia: