Ancient Mesopotamia
An extra amount of something.
What is surplus?
A line of rulers from one family.
What is a dynasty?
Fan-shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea.
What is a delta?
Trade routes from China to West Asia and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
A mixture of volcanic dust and lime mortar that hardened into a strong, durable building material.
What is Concrete?
Is the order something happened in.
What is Chronological?
Dangerous, rocky, fast-moving water.
What is a cataract?
Ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What are Pharaohs?
An item that was not invented by the Chinese.
What is a microscope?
One of three levels of joining arches through which water was channeled into a city.
What is an Aqueduct?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Goddess of law, order, and truth. Made sure the sun rose each day. And the symbol is a feather.
Who is Maat?
A really strong navy, no one wanted to take them on in a fight at sea.
What is Athens?
Built to keep out invaders; built over a period of 2,000 years; over 4,500 miles at its longest.
What is The Great Wall of China?
Used by the Etruscans as a single stone structure for gateways in their walls.
What is an arch?
Kingdom that covered all of Mesopotamia, ruled by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylonia?
What Egyptians did to preserve a body.
What is embalming?
Only lasted for a short period, from about 480 B.C. to 380 B.C.
What is the Golden Age of Greece?
It is hard to believe that little worms can produce this beautiful thread.
What is Silk?
A temple built by Hadrian and dedicated to all gods.
What is the Pantheon?
Old North city of the Dead Sea, built in oasis about 8,000 B.C.
Where is Jericho?
Ruler who tried to destroy all records of the previous pharaoh. (2 words)
Who is Thutmose III?
Means "Walled City."
What does acropolis mean?
Philosophy developed by Lao-tzu.
What is Taoism?
A long portico supported by a series of columns.
What is a Basilica?