Your unit 2 questions

You must study your exam using the next questions you gave me last week. I have chosen the most interesting question that you did.

MESOPOTAMIAN QUESTIONS:

- How was Mesopotamian architecture? (Rebeca Pérez)

They built using adobe, they used the arch , the vault and columns. They used varnished brick too.

- Think: what are the main differences between first Mesopotamian schools and schools nowadays? (Ana Magro)
In Mesopotamian school only a few children, from rich families, went to school; today all the children go to school. Mesopotamian children only studied writing and reading but today we study many subjects. In Mesopotamia only boys could go to school, today girls and boys can go to school.

- Why did Mesopotamian build ziggurats? (Illán Remolar)

Because they wanted to build a stairway to heaven, because they thought their god was living on the top of the ziggurat.

- What was the Mesopotamian writing? (Antonio Ballesteros)

They had the cuneiform writing.

- Why Mesopotamian people draw monsters in their buildings and doors? (Daniel Bartolomé)

Because they thought that monster drove away their enemies

- What is the meaning of Mesopotamia? (Álvaro Bartolomé)

Mesopotamia means "land between two rivers".

- What was the main Mesopotamian building? (Silvia Gómez)

The most important building in Mesopotamia was a temple called ziggurat.

- What was a theocracy? (Natalia Castellanos)

It is a political system in which the king (or priest in Mesopotamia) had the political, militar and religious power.

- Between which two rivers is Mesopotamia located? (Ana Puebla)

It is located between two rivers: Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

- Why was writting invented? (Mar Casado)

Because they wanted to have the sums of the kingdom.

- Who were the scribes? (Gabriela Martínez)
They were civil-servant who could write and read.

- What were the most important economic activities in Mesopotamia?

The most important economic activities in Mesopotamia were agriculture (due to fertile lands) and stockbreeding.

EGYPTIAN QUESTIONS:

- Why did Egyptians bury their deaths with the Book of the Dead? (Paula Saavedra)
Because this book contains all the sentences all death people had to say to Osiris to save their souls.

- What was the Book of the Dead?

- Why Egyptians made mummies? (Illán Remolar)

- Which were the pharaoh's power? (Nora Serroukh)

- Why the Nile was such as important for Egyptian people? (Julia Sepúlveda)

- Name all kind of Egyptians tombs. (Mariuxi Toapanta)

- Pharaoh's work. (Victoria Baena)

- Who were the most important gods? (Dánae)

- Who was the Sun's God? (Martín del Olmo)

- What is a pyramid? (Lucas Boyero)

- How was Egytian society organized? (Edna Salinas)

- What are the most important pyramids today? Where are they located? (Raquel Díez)

- Explain the Egyptian agriculture cycle. (Adrián White)

- What was an hypogeum? (Iciar Sánchez)

Be carefull, I will choose some questions, but you have to know everything. It is possible that you are going to read a text and you will answer some questions related with it. It is possible to have some definitions, and you will match it with its correct term.