Ancient Greece
This term means a city that rules itself like a small independent country.
What is a city-state?
The two rivers that created Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The river that made Egyptian life possible.
What is the Nile?
The line of latitude that circles the Earth halfway between the poles.
What is the equator?
The 12 Tribes of Israel came from the sons of this man.
Who is Jacob?
These two city-states were the most powerful in ancient Greece.
What are Athens and Sparta?
The writing system invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
Egyptians preserved the dead using this process.
What is mummification?
The main line of longitude that passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian?
These people were long-time enemies of Israel.
Who are the Philistines?
This Persian king invaded Greece to punish Athens for helping the Ionian Revolt.
Who is King Darius?
This Mesopotamian king created a famous code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This pharaoh is often connected with the time of the Exodus.
Who is Ramses II?
The line around which a planet spins.
What is an axis?
Who was the king who united the tribes of Israel?
Who is David?
Name one major difference between Athens and Sparta.
What is “Athens focused on education and democracy, Sparta on military training”?
What does the name “Mesopotamia” mean?
What is “land between the rivers”?
The southern part of Egypt, higher in elevation.
What is Upper Egypt?
A grassland with scattered trees found in hot regions.
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What is a savannah?
These people were the first to invade Israel.
Who are the Assyrians?
This event began when Darius attacked Greece.
What are the Persian Wars?
A large temple tower where people worshiped in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
The young pharaoh whose tomb was discovered nearly untouched.
Who is Tutankhamen?
Why were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers important?
They allowed farming, settlement, and the rise of early cities.
The prophets told the Israelites to care for this group.
Who are the poor and needy?