Geography and Economics
This geographic feature connected civilizations afar such as Greece, Rome, and Egypt.
What is the Meditterranian Sea?
A belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
A word that translates to mean "the land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
The egyptian king who was believed to be a living god on earth.
What is a Pharaoh?
This greek god is the God of the Sea.
Who is Poseidan?
A system where people trade goods for others goods.
What is the Barter System?
When a family stays in power because the ruler's power is passed to a family member after death, usually from a father to son, for many generations.
What is a dynasty?
The type of government system developed in city-states across Mesopotamia and was led by kings.
What is a monarchy?
The most important geographic feature in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This was the main religion at the end of the Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
An example of this would be mountains that protected early civilizations from invaders.
What are Natural Barriers?
A government system where the people vote to make decisions on laws, leaders, war and other government responsibilities.
What is direct democracy?
These people were among the few who could read and write and had the important job of keeping records for kings and priests.
What is a Scribe?
This is where the Egyptians believed you went when you died.
What is the Afterlife?
These slaves were trained and fought for Rome's entertainment.
Who are gladiators?
Merchants traveled along these routes that moved goods from China and India in the East to as far as Europe in the West.
What is the Silk Road?
A government system where people vote to elect leaders to make decisions and represent their interests.
What is Representative Democracy or a Republic?
The first written language to be developed in history
What is Cuneiform?
Egypt was surround by these on both sides of the Nile river.
What are deserts?
A main good exported from both Greece and Rome.
What are olives or grapes?
What is irrigation?
The first surviving monotheistic religion in history.
What is Judaism?
This written system of law contained 282 recorded laws and is one of the first ever written code of laws.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Law?
This is the area where most trading was done in Egypt. It also provided protect from invaders since it was difficult for ships to move through.
What is the Nile Delta?
This is the main reason Rome developed a representative democracy instead of a direct democracy like Greece.
What is population size?