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Mesopotamia: cuneiform, stylus, scribe, dam, irrigation
- What does Mesopotamia mean?
- What two rivers act as borders for the Fertile Crescent?
- Why did people, like Sumerians, settle in Mesopotamia?
- Explain how the Sumerians successfully controlled water to farm their land.
- How did the Sumerians record their daily business? What did they write with and on?
- What inventions did the Sumerians leave us that we still use today?
- EGYPT: pyramid, mummy, hieroglyphics, pharaoh, polytheism, cataracts
- What main river flows through Egypt? Direction?
- What is one of the best areas for growing in Egypt? What makes this possible?
- How many Kingdoms make up Egyptian history?
- Identify one item that distinguished the separate Kingdoms. Ex: which Kingdom were the pyramids in?
- Who was Hatsheput and what was she known for? Who was King Tut and why was Howard Carter important to this find?
- GREECE: Trojan Horse, city-state, Homer, Olympics, Sophists
- Who were the Minoans? Where were they located? Two theories what happened to them?
- What did the Iliad and the Odyssey explain? Who wrote them?
- Who were the Mycenaean? Who did they get in a fight with? Why?
- What group of people brought the “Dark Ages” to the Greeks?
- What is a philosopher? What did Socrates, Plato and Aristotle emphasize?
- Explain what the Socratic Method is and how we benefit from using it in education/work today.
