Mesopotamia
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
The early tribal people of Persia lived in what modern-day country?
Iran
Which city-state was almost totally driven by war, demanding men spend several decades in military training and combat?
Sparta
Which two brothers founded Rome in the folk tales?
Romulus and Remus
The capital of New Jersey is what?
Trenton
Mesopotamia was the center of a larger region which became very easy to grow crops during the agricultural revolution, what was this moon-shaped region called?
The fertile cresent
Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes are all descended from what great ruler?
Cyrus the Great
What world-famous running race is named after a Greek city-state?
Marathon
Which Roman leader was famously killed by the Senate on the ides of March?
Julius Caesar
The largest ocean is which ocean?
the Pacific
An eye for an eye is a quote associated with what code of laws?
Hammurabi's code
The Achaemenid dynasty of Persia clashed with what European country?
Greece
What mountain in Greece was said to be home to the gods?
Mt. Olympus
Caesar's nephew who seized power becoming the first emperor was named what?
Augustus/ Octavian
How many great lakes are there?
5
This Mesopotamian ruler was found in a basket, raised in a king's castle, then eventually overthrew that king:
Sargon
Cyrus the Great is mentioned in the Bible, it is said that he freed who from slavery in Egypt?
The Hebrews/ The Jewish people
What was the name of the Greek general who controlled Egypt after Alexander died?
Ptolemy
Which Emperor built a wall through the UK and stopped Roman expansion?
Hadrian
The large coniferous forest that takes up most of southern New Jersey:
Pine Barrens/ Pinelands
Sargon the Akkadian made the capital of his empire the city of:
Akkad
Ultimately Persia fell to the man who united the Greek city-states, his name was:
Alexander the Great
Name the two trading civilizations that lived in Greece before the dark ages:
the Minoans and Myceneans
Rome split, the West became what and the East would later be called what?
West: Holy Roman Empire
East: The Byzantine Empire
What former soviet country had a severe nuclear powerplant explosion in the 80s?
The Ukraine