Name:__________________________________________
Date:_________________________ Pd. ____
River Valley Civilization
Study Guide A
Question
1. Sumerians and Egyptians used levees, dams, reservoirs
Answer
control the water in the valley
and canals to __________________.
2. People from many villages had to work together to take
the irrigation systems
care of ______________.
3. A settlement that has its own ruler, walls and farmland
City-state
is called a ______________.
4. There was not enough farmland to support the growing
to move south into the river valley
population in the Zagros Mountains of northern
Mesopotamia, which led people __________________.
5. Ancient Mesopotamia was located
between two rivers
_______________________.
6. It was more difficult to live in Sumer than in the Zagros
foothills because Sumer
lacked________________________.
7. Hammurabi is best known for his __________.
8. The Sumerian form of writing using wedge-shaped
many natural resources like rock and
timber as well as natural boundaries to
keep out enemies.
code of laws
Cuneiform
symbols is known as ________________.
9. Nebuchadrezzar II built an inner wall and an outer wall,
towers for archers to stand on and a moat filled with
water to _______________.
protect the city from attacks
10. The _____________________ of ancient Egypt were
Pharaohs
worshipped by people.
11. The ____________________ allowed scholars to
Rosetta Stone
decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
12. The need to irrigate farmland caused the ancient
cooperate and form larger communities
Egyptians to _______________.
13. The ________________________ was known as the
New Kingdom
“Golden Age” of Egyptian History.
14. The Nile River Delta was located in _____________.
15. The purpose of mummification was to ensure that
_________________.
16. Pharaoh ___________________ built the Great
Lower Egypt
the body would be preserved so that the
spirit (ba) can recognize the body (ka) and
can enjoy an eternal afterlife.
Khufu
Pyramid of Giza.
17. The Nile River carries a natural fertilizer called
silt
_________________.
18. ______________ is the god of embalming.
19. During the flooding season, Egyptian peasants would
______________________.
Anubis
work on monuments for the Pharaoh.