WORLD HISTORY
REVIEW
Short Answer
Short Answer Questions
List Three disadvantages for those who
lived in Mesopotamia.
Irregular flooding, limited resources, no
natural protection
Draw an ankh. Do the best you can and
tell me what it means!
Eternal Life
WORLD HISTORY
REVIEW
Section 1 Chapter 2
Who created the first known empire in history? He was an Akkadian?
Sargon
Who was the king of Babylon; he arranged and set down in writing laws
for all to see?
Hammurabi
What stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea? It’s
known for its rich dark soils.
Fertile Crescent
What is a Sumerian Poem that describes a great flood that destroys the
world?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
What are pyramid-temples that soared toward the heavens and on
the top stood a shrine of a god or goddess for the city?
Ziggurat
What word means land between the rivers?
Mesopotamia
What is the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
With use of a reed pen, wedge shape marks were put into clay tablets.
The shapes were pictograms.
Cuneiform
What is a dynasty?
It is when you have a ruling family that passes power to the eldest male.
What term is like our shopping mall in the United States?
Bazaar
SECTION 2
Chapter 2
Who wrote a book on how to be a good chief minister?
Ptah-hotep
Who was the wife of Akhenaton and was the priestess of the Aton cult.
Nefertiti
Who reassembled her husband’s body and brought it back to life? She also taught
Egyptian women how to spin flax, grind grain, weave cloth and care for children.
Isis
Who was considered a minor king whose tomb was discovered in 1922, he is also known
as King Tut?
Tutankhamen
Who was Egypt’s chief god, god of the sun?
Amon-Re
What Egyptian help design the pyramids and perfected mummification?
Imhotep
Who was the Frenchman who figured out the meaning of Egyptian picture writing? Choices
Jean Champollion
Who was the British Archaeologist who discovered King Tut’s tomb?
Howard Carter
What is the longest river in the world?
Nile
What name was given to the dark rich soils of Egypt?
Kemit
What part of Egypt is the delta region of Egypt?
Lower Egypt
Though some evidence show a King Scorpian most scholars believe ______ was the first
king to unite Egypt because he wore the two crowns of Egypt.
Narmer
What term describes the Egyptian leader?
Pharaoh
What stone was used by a Frenchman to decode the Egyptian picture writing, it had picture
writing, everyday Egyptian writing and Greek?
Rosetta Stone
What was the name of Egyptian picture writing?
Hieroglyphics
What is a plant that grew along the Nile River, Egyptians used it for writing?
Papyrus
Where is the location of the Great Pyramid in Egypt?
Giza
Egyptian leaders depended on a _____ or chief minister, to supervise the business of
government.
Vizier
What term describe the preservation of the dead?
Mummification
What a simpler form of writing that Egyptians used for everyday usage?
Demotic
What is the Egyptians relied on in order to journey through the underworld?
Book of the Dead
What is the part man part lion that protects the pyramids?
Sphinx
What are mastubas?
Arabic word for bench describing early Egyptian tombs.
What is the Tale of Sinhue?
Story of Egypt which is the basis of Sinbad the Sailor.
What is it called when one rules based on religious authority?
Theocracy
What were put into canopic jars?
Internal organs that a mummy may need.
How long is the Egyptian week?
Ten Days
SECTION 1
Chapter 4
Who invaded Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and introduce the chariot?
Hyksos
After the Battle of Kadesh Ramses II signed the oldest known peace treaty with what
country?
Hittites
Who may be related to the Philistines and toppled the Egyptian New Kingdom 150
years after Ramses II?
“Sea Peoples”
Who drove out the Libyans from Egypt and controlled Egypt for a while before being
forced out by the Assyrians and thrived another thousand year in Nubia?
Kushites
Who dominated trade in the Southeast part of Egypt and eventually defeated Meroë?
Asksum
He conquered Syria and had oblisks built in his name throughout Egypt. He may have
killed his stepmom.
Thutmose III
Who was the first woman monarch of Egypt? Had worn a false beard.
Hatshepsut