Ancient Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian river.
What is the Tigris?
The process of preserving a dead body by drying it.
What is mummification?
Great historical city of ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
A very thin cloth made from cocoons spun by worms.
What is silk?
A mixture of volcanic dust and lime mortar that hardened into strong durable building material.
What is concrete?
First important farming tool to break soil.
What is the plow?
Egyptian civilization developed on the banks of which river.
What is the Nile?
Grandest building in Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
Built to keep out invaders, built over a period of 2000 years and it is over 4500 miles long.
What is the Great Wall of China?
An area of open space that served as the commercial and social center of a Roman city.
What is the Forum?
The first group of people to live in Mesopotamia.
What is the Sumerians?
Ancient World wonder that is still standing today.
What is the Pyramid of Giza?
Ancient Greek leader and supporter of democracy.
Who is Pericles?
The first emperor of China.
Who is Shi Huang Ti?
A structure that was formed by several crossing arches.
What is a Dome?
A method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture.
What is Irrigation?
Ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is a Pharaoh?
A person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment.
Who is a philosopher?
The belief that the Chinese kings right came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
A lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life.
What is an Ode?
Tall Sumerian temple.
What is Jericho?
Egyptians called the desert surrounding their country.
What is the Red Land?
Ancient Greek orator.
What is Demosthenes?
Changan, the capital city was laid out the same pattern as.
What is Rome?
A closed structure built on a high platform, usually with a deep columned porch in the front.
What is a Basilica?