| A | B |
|---|
| Modern Mesopotamia | Southwest Asia, Fertile Crescent Iraq |
| Date of Mesopotamia | c.3500 B.C. |
| Mesopotamian Inventions | Wheel, sail, plow, gardening, irrigation, government, cuneiform, 60-second minute, calendar |
| Social Class of Mesopotamia | Kings/Priests, Wealthy Merchants, Workers, Slaves |
| Rivers of Mesopotamia | Tigris and Euphrates |
| Religion of Mesopotamia | Polytheism(elements of nature, possibly female forms) |
| Culture of Mesopotamia | Agrarian Society, City-States, Dynasties |
| Significance of Mesopotamia | First Civilization |
| Mesopotamian City-States | Kish, Ur, Lagash |
| Cuneiform | Means "wedge-shaped", written on clay tablets |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian King, established first code of laws(eye for an eye) |
| Ziggurat | Sumerian step pyramid; more than a temple, a center of life |
| Sargon of Akkad | conquered Sumer and built the first empire |
| Location of Egypt | North Africa |
| Date of Egypt | 3200 B.C. |
| River of Egypt/Longest river in the world | Nile River |
| Inventions of Egypt | Mathematics, engineering, medicine, astronomy |
| Classes of Egypt | Pharaoh and family, nobility and officials, middle class, workers, slaves |
| Religion of Egypt | Polytheism, nature, afterlife |
| Culture of Egypt | Sophisticated Agrarian Society |
| Significance | Established base for science and education |
| Separation of Egypt | Upper/Lower Cataract |
| Nile Direction of Flow | South to North |
| Annual floods of the Nile | Inundation |
| Fertile Soil | SILT!! |
| Cataract | points where the riverboat cannot pass |
| first cataract | end of egyptian territory |
| Pharaohs | Rulers of Egypt, believed divine |
| Menes | Unified upper and lower Egypt/capital at Memphis |
| Hatshepsut | First female ruler |
| Akhenaton | wife Nefertiti, preached monotheism(Aten the sun god) |
| Tutankhamen | temple untouched |
