The Fertile Crescent
Two nicknames for the area known as Mesopotamia.
What are the Fertile Crescent and the Cradle of Civilization?
The river that the Egyptians built their civilization on.
What is the Nile River?
A Macedonian-born leader who ruled Greece and conquered many land giving him the title of Great.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The river that Rome was founded on.
What is the Tiber River.
The civilization that made earth and stone villages in cliff faces that the Spanish called pueblos.
What is the Pueblo People/Civilization?
A stepped tower that were built to be temples in cities.
What is a ziggurat?
A preserved body that is carefully prepared and place in a tomb.
What is a mummy?
Often regarded as two most powerful Greek city-states. One is the birthplace of democracy as well as a symbol of art and knowledge and the other is a military-focused city-state who is also the model for many depictions of ancient militaries.
What are Athens and Sparta?
The two twins who were raised by a wolf and founded Rome.
Who is Romulus and Remus?
The river that the Indus Valley Civilization (modern day India and Pakistan) thrived on.
What is the Indus River?
The two civilizations that took over Mesopotamia from the north and east after Babylon fell.
What are the Hittites and the Kassites?
The Dynasty that ruled at the time that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
What is Dynasty 4?
The four Greek cultures that flourished at overlapping time from 3000 B.C.E to 1000 B.C.E.
What are the Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Trojan cultures?
A group of three leaders that share power over a kingdom equally.
What is a triumvirate?
The civilization that were the first to reach many remote Pacific islands including Hawaii, Easter Island, Tahiti, New Zealand, and others.
What is the Polynesian Civilization?
The empire who took over Mesopotamia when Akkadian rulers started to lose power over the many city-states.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
The pharaoh that started ruling Egypt in 1364 B.C.E who believed in one god, Aton, and changed his name that translates to "servant of Aton".
Who is Amenhotep/Akhenaton?
The two leaders that attempted and failed to conquer the Greek city states.
Who are Darius I and Xerxes I?
Special Round! Each person you name answers you 100 points and you earn the other 400 points if you get all 4 people correct: The three major leaders connected to Julius Caesar that fought for control of Rome after Caesar's assassination and the Egyptian queen who allied with one of them.
Who were Octavian, Mark Anthony, Lepidus, and Cleopatra?
The first Japanese Emperor.
Who is Emperor Jimmu?
Once a soldier for the king of Kish (a Sumerian city-state) who killed the king and then conquered other Sumerian city-states.
Who is Sargon the Great?
A ruler that is a part of Dynasty 18 who conquered lands from the Nile to the Euphrates River.
Who is Thutmose I?
The philosopher that calculated the Earth's circumfrence.
Who is Eratosthenes?
A region in western Europe modern day France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland that the Romans conquered completely from 58-50 B.C.E by Julius Caesar.
What are the Gauls?
The first Chinese dynasty that has been confirmed to exist. (Bouns!: The first dynasty that is said to exist but hasn't been confirmed because it's existence is only known from legendary accounts that seem fictional.)
What was the Shang Dynasty? (Bouns!: What was the Xia Dynasty?)