What is a person called who makes things fancier or prettier than they have to be?

What is another word for a supernatural being (god) that is worshiped by people?

What is the time before writing called?

What is the word for "getting water to crops from a natural source like a river or lake"?

What are the imaginary lines that are used to measure distance north and south of the equator?

Where did every early civilization develop?

What development ended the hunter-gatherer phase and allowed civilizations to develop in places?

What are man-made object left behind by ancient people called?

What is the term for half of the globe?

The study of places on the earth's surface is called what?

What is the word for surviving using what you have available?

What is the word for someone who studies only the ancient past?

What is a system of buying and selling goods or services called?

How were stories passed from one generation to the next before writing?

What is any human invention that makes life easier called?

What is a primitive human-like creature that lived before modern humans called?

Which continent is the furthest south?

The process of training animals to be tame and obedient is called what?

Scientists can tell how long ago something lived by using which measuring technique?

What is the word for a large population of people who live in the same general region, speak basically the same language, share a culture, and specialize jobs?

Which of these is one of the two continents in the Western Hemisphere?

What is the name given to the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude?

What is the name of the ocean between Africa and Australia?

What is the largest continent?

On a standard map, moving from left to right is moving in which direction?

Which ocean is the furthest north?

Europe is west of which continent?

Which continent is the smallest?

What separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hemispere?

Which direction are you traveling from Asia to Africa?

Which ocean is due east of Asia?

The Middle East is called that because it is located between which continents?

What does "Mesopotamia" literally mean?

Which civilization of the Fertile Crescent became wealthy from trade by using their ships around the Mediterranean?

Which of these was the first Mesopotamian empire?

What was the type of government for places like Ur and Uruk?

When did the first writing develop?

Which civilization developed the first writing?

What was the name of the type of large mudbrick building popular in southern and central Mesopotamia?

What is the name of the large body of water due west of Mesopotamia?

What name is given to a government that controls many nations and kingdoms?

What was the first to unify northern and southern Mesopotamia under one ruler?

What is the name of the region that includes Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Israel, and Northern Egypt?

What is the word that means "having too more than enough of something"?

What was the main natural problem for the people who lived in Mesopotamia?

What story from Sumerian literature did we read? (Hint: It was about a man and his friend and a quest for eternal life.)

What was one of the legendary Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that was in Mesopotamia?

What city was one of the main capitals of the Assyrian Empire?

What is the term for worshiping multiple gods and/or goddesses?

What was the name of the writing system that was developed first in Mesopotamia?

What are the names of the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

What were two of the main products that made Phoenicia famous?

What city was the capital of Ancient Israel and the site of the Jewish Temple?

Who was the Neo-Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC?

Which Babylonian king was famous for his code of laws?

What word describes groups of travelers all traveling together for safety?

What Assyrian war invention was vital for conquering city-states?

What is the Hebrew word that describes the first five books of the Jewish Bible?

Who was the earliest leader of the Hebrews who moved from Ur to Canaan because he was called by God?

What 1947 cave discovery proved that the text of the Bible has remained almost exactly the same for the past 2,000 years?

What is the name of the religion of the Hebrew people that is based on the Old Testament of the Bible?

Which Hebrew leader led the Israelites out of Egypt around 1,446 BC?

What is the term for being forcefully removed from your homeland and made to live in some other place?

Who was one of the first three kings of Israel?

What was the main difference between the main Jewish religion and the other Mesopotamian religions?

The main river of Egypt is the

The Egyptian god of life, death, and the afterlife was which one?

The six dangerous places (rapids/waterfalls) on the Nile River are called what?

The colorful name for the fertile land beside the river in Egypt is what?

The mouth of the river in Egypt forms a triangle called what?

The main river in Egypt flows this direction.

Into what body of water does the Egyptian river empty?

Who is considered to the first pharaoh of Egypt, the one who united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt?

What word describes a family that rules for multiple generations?

What is the name of the reed that grows in the Egyptian river and that is dried, cut, beaten, and used for a writing material?

What is the title given to someone who rules until the rightful king/queen is old enough to rule?

Who was the ancient Egyptian goddess of women and mothers?

Egypt is on which continent?

What Wonder of the Ancient World is still standing in Egypt?

What was the name of the "boy king" pharaoh whose tomb was found in 1922?

What was found in 1799 that "unlocked" the secret of ancient Egyptian writing for archaeologists?

What is the name of the Egyptian monument that has a head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion?

What is a dried and preserved body called?

Who discovered the "boy king" tomb in 1922?

The Egyptians (and Babylonians) studied the stars and planets, so they were some of the world's first ________.

What was the name of the female pharaoh who ruled until her stepson Thutmoses III was old enough to rule (and even after he was old enough)?

Which of these were close to the top of the Egyptian social pyramid?

Who was the Egyptian god of death who wore a jackal head and was there at the Heart Judgment?

Who was the Egyptian god associated with pharaohs and who had the appearance of a hawk?