SS Benchmark Review

Built pyramid shaped temples called ziggurats for their main gods and goddesses

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• China

• Rome

Cuneiform - Sumerian system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols and was often inscribed on clay tablets

• Mesopotamia

• Maya

• Ghana

• Rome

First set of written laws were called the Code of Hammurabi

• Mesopotamia

• Rome

• Mali

• Inca

This area is known as the “Fertile Crescent” which is mostly located in the present-day countries of Iraq and Kuwait

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• China

• India

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• Ghana

• Aztec

Located along the Nile River which flows north into the Mediterranean Sea

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Greece

• Rome

They worshipped the Pharaoh as a descendant of the gods and believed in a life after death called an afterlife

• Egypt

• Mesopotamia

• Ghana

• Rome

Developed mummification to preserve bodies for the afterlife

• Egypt

• Aztec

• Ghana

• Mesopotamia

Built pyramids as tombs for their Pharaohs.

• Egypt

• Maya

• Mesopotamia

• Rome

Yellow and Yangtze Rivers

• China

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• India