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Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
Read pages 82 to 84 of the textbook and answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What does the term civilization describe?
2. What developments are included in a civilization?
3. How long ago were the earliest civilizations?
4. Where was the first civilization, and what was the region called then and now?
5. What is a theocracy?
6. What type of government do we have in the United States? How does it compare to a theocracy?
7. Which city-state came first?
8. What are three important city-states in the Fertile Crescent? List them in order from earliest to latest.
9. Look at the map on page 83. What do the locations of the towns have in common?
Read pages 84 to 87 and answer the following questions in complete sentences.
10. How is the location of Egypt similar to the location of Mesopotamia?
11. What is the word for “many gods?”
12. Why did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies?
13. Where were poor people buried?
14. What is Egyptian writing called? What does it look like?
15. What were two early forms of writing? Where did they develop?
16. Why was trade important to the ancient Egyptians?
17. Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
18. How many workers did ancient historians and modern archaeologists each think it took to build the
Great Pyramid?
19. Describe the process experts think Egyptians used to build the pyramids.
20. Define Pharaoh