Exam 1: Water and Soil, Stone and Metal: The First Civilizations

Humanity's relationship with the gods, according to early Mesopotamian religion, can best be described as

Which of the following civilizations spoke an Indo-European language?

The myth of the __________________ represented a fear of real events for Sumerians.

Bronze appeared by:

The Nile Delta forms the region known as "Lower Egypt?"

The Akkadian Empire was the first example of the importance of the connections between which two regions?

Secular and religious power in Mesopotamia was represented by the two offices of _________and __________, which emerged together.

Writing was a tightly held monopoly by professional scribes in Sumer.

Two rivers enabled Sumerian agriculture and its civilization, the Tigris and the

_____________developed the system of dynasties used to delineate Egyptian kings.

"Nomes" were

The Egyptians may have acquired writing from what civilization?

Enlil was

Early agriculturalists were mostly men.

What group conquered the Sumerian city-states around 2350 bce?

Religion in ancient Egypt had little to do with ethics.

Egypt was a wealthy civilization because

Sargon's conquered territory was linked together in an early form of ________.

Sargon grew wealthy from combining Sumer's agriculture with

The capital city of Old Kingdom Egypt was