Ancient Mesopotamia
A pyramid-shaped at the top structure with a temple.
What was a Ziggurat?
A government official.
What was a Bureaucrat?
A gathering place - marketplace in Ancient Greece.
What was a Agora?
A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.
What was a Pictograph?
Three rulers who share equal political power.
What was a Triumvirate?
A geographic area.
What was a Region?
Fan-shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea.
What was a Delta?
the governor of a province in ancient persia.
What was a Satrap?
The administrative service of a government.
What was a Civil Service?
Large farming estates.
What was a Latifundia
A belief in more than one god.
What was a Polytheism?
What Egyptians called their land, means “black land”.
What was a Kemet?
A form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf.
What was a Representative Democracy?
A farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in cash as a share of the crop.
What was a Tenant farmer?
Basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes.
What was a Philosophy?
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
What was a Epic?
Woven cloth
What was a Textile?
A person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment.
What was a Philosopher
A member of an upper class of society, usually made up of hereditary nobility.
What was a Aristocrat?
Motifs or images created by an arrangement of colored glass or stone.
What was a Mosaics?
A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler.
What was a Empire?
A government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader.
What was a Theocracy?
A form of democracy in which all citizens can participate firsthand in the decision-making process.
What was A Direct Democracy?
Originally, a Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain.
What was a Acupuncture
In ancient Rome, a person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
What was a Gladiator?