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  • What is a delta
    A fertile marshland at the end of the Nile
  • A place of worship that is often dedicated to a sacred object or person
    Shrine
  • Calendar created by Julius Caesar, based on the founding of Rome
    Times New Roman
    Julian
    Gregorian
    Greek
  • What did the Egyptians use as both a part of worship and a part of embalming?
    Incense
  • What two words describe the part of the map shown in the GIF
    Compass Rose
  • Pharaoh who is given credit for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom
    Sargon
    Ahkhenaten
    Ahmose
    Narmer
  • A government controlled by religious leaders
    Autocracy
    Theocracy
    Monarchy
    Democracy
  • Neru Pehut was the
    The temple of Ra
    The shrine built to Sargon
    The first king of Mesopotamia
    Guardian of the Royal Anus
  • A map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
    Projection Map
    Political map
    Physical map
    Special Purpose Map
  • Egyptian pharaoh considered to be Egypt's first female pharaoh
    Tutenkhamen
    Hapshepshut
    Ahmose
    Narmer
  • This picture shows:
    The agricultural revolution
    Paleolithic Age
    Prehistory
    The Egyptian Old Kingdom
  • Not having enough of a resource is called
    shadoof
    irrigation
    scarcity
    surplus
  • Imaginary lines on globes and maps that provide information to help you easily locate places on the Earth
    Latitude and longitude
  • Which government style has a kingdom passed down through family bloodlines?
    Dynasty
    Monarchy
    Democracy
    Republic
  • 2340 B.C. leader of the Akkadians who overran the Sumerian city-state and set up the world's first empire
    Hammurabi
    Siddhartha Guatama
    Nebuchadnezzar
    Sargon
  • an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
    artifact
  • Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event. Examples: encyclopedias and history books
    Secondary sources
  • What is a shrine?
    A Sumerian tribe leader
    An incense burned to make bodies smell better
    A place of worship
    An excess of resources
  • An original document, the firsthand facts presented by someone present or participating in the event. Examples: photographs, journals, and government records
    Primary sources
  • A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
    Fertile Crescent
  • . An opinion or emotion expressed in a letter written by an angry leader
    Bias
    Secondary source
    Artifact
    conclusion
  • What was Narmer's biggest accomplishment?
    He built a canal connecting the Nile to the Red Sea
    He united the Upper and Lower kingdoms of Egypt
    She was the first female pharaoh
    He created the first pyramid
  • A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic-the world's first written fiction
    Gilgamesh
    Assyria
    Sargon
    Hammurabi
  • Which one is NOT somethng U.S. citizens are required to do?
    pay taxes
    obey the laws of the nation
    Vote
    Serve on a jury
  • Important canal built between these two bodies of water to help the Egyptians with irrigation and water trade
    Red Sea and the Nile
    The Tigris and the Euphrates River
    The Nile River and the Euphrates River
    Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
  • What is opportunity cost?
    The price of a scarce item
    What you give up to get something else
    The job that pays the most
    The place where supply and demand meet
  • An era is a period of
    10 centuries
    many millenniums
    10 decades
    time when monarchies change
  • A person that is born in the U.S. gets their citiizenship by the
    Law of soil
    Passing a civics test when they turn 16
    Serving in the military when they turn 18
    Law of blood
  • A trace of an ancient living human, animal, or plant that has been preserved in rock.
    Fossil
  • Created by Pope Gregory XIII; currently used in most of the world, based on birth of Christ
    Gregorian calendar
  • a period of one thousand years
    millennium
  • The first capital of Egypt, near the head of the Nile Delta.
    Memphis
    Thebes
    Alexandria
    Cairo
  • What word means the amount of a good or service that you have?
    Entrepreneurship
    Demand
    Supply
    Opportunity cost
  • best known for a code of 282 laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
    Hammurabi
  • This word means belief in many gods
    polytheism