World History Pg 7-8
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| What are some inventions of the Bronze Age? | Wheels, Plows, Writing, Money, Cities, Armies, and Chariots.
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| How long did the Bronze Age last? | 4,000 BC to Beginning of Iron Age (1,000 BC)
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| What did the Egyptians learn from Mesopotamia? | Irrigation, the plow, writing, and other technologies
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| Why is Egypt said to be the "Gift of the Nile"? | Due to the fertile soils caused by annual floods and easy transportation by boat
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| What two main Gods did the Egyptians worship? | Ra, God of the Sun and creator of life, and Osiris, the god of rebirth
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| Name Egypt's modern capital city. | Cario
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| Who developed our 365-day calender base we use today? | Ancient Egyptians
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| Kings of ancient Egypt who were worshiped as if they were Gods? | Pharaohs
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| Pharaohs built massive works such as? | Irrigation Systems, Temples, and Monuments
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| Ramses 2 was known for what? | A warrior and builder
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| The first important woman ruler of history. | Queen Hatshepsut
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| Who was the last queen of the thirty-one dynasties? | Cleopatra
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| The best-known pharaoh who died at age 18? | Tutankhamen( King Tut)
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| What did King Tut's tomb contain? | over 5,000 objects, inc. life-like mask of gold
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| Why did government become necessary? | Societies grew
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| Major types of governments in history have included? | Monarchies(Kings and Queens), Democracies, and
Dictatorships( One Person)
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| For a body to be reserved, priests had to do what two things? | Mummification and Religious rituals
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| What type of people removed vital organs? | Skilled embalmers
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| What was the most famous burial tomb in Egypt? | The Great Pyramid at Giza
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| The pyramids were the oldest and only remaining examples of what? | The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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| Standing guard over the pyramids is a head of a pharaoh and body of a lion. It is known as what? | A Sphinx.
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| The system of writing using pictures to represent words or syllables is known as what? | The hieroglyphics
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| Hieroglyphics preserved records of what? | Egyptian culture
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| What did Egyptians write hieroglyphics on? | Papyrus
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| People did not understand hieroglyphics until what was discovered in the late 1700's? | the Rosetta Stone
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| Hieroglyphics were written with a translation in what language? | Greek
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| The savanna is large land area in? | Central and Southeast Africa
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| What is the longest river in the world? | Nile
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| What are flat areas of land that form at the mouths of rivers where it flows into the sea? | the Deltas
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| What are Egypt's two largest cities? | Cairo and Alexandra
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| The Sahara Desert is the what in the world? | the largest, driest desert
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| What does the Sahara Desert separate? | North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
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| What is the land that lies south of the desert? | the Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Why are people living in the Sub-Saharan Africa called "Black Africa"? | People have darker skins than north Africans
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| It took how many years for skin color to change from black to white in Africa? | 20,000 years
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