Mesopotamia
This is what we call early members of society that found food, such as meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
What are hunter-gatherers?
This is the longest river in the world used for transportation, and it floods seasonally, leaving behind rich silt/fertile soil.
What is the Nile?
This early river system in India supported India's early civilization. (Daily Double)
What is the Indus River?
These two famous Greece city-states were rivals during the Peloponnesian War.
What are Sparta and Athens?
According to legend, these two mythological brothers were raised by a she wolf, and the victor of a battle between them over who should rule a city led to the naming of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Primitive man discovered this when a seed fell to the ground and sprouted, and this discovery allowed people to settle in one place.
What is farming or agriculture?
This Egyptian form of writing used symbols to represent things and ideas.
What is hieroglyphics?
This division of Indian society is based on wealth, rank and occupation, and is established at birth.
What is the caste system?
These two examples of Greek epic poems are both purported to have been written by the blind poet, Homer.
What are "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"?
What is the smallest country in the world that is also a city within Rome.
What is Vatican City?
These two important rivers from Mesopotamia flooded on a yearly basis.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This Egyptian architectural building doubled as a grave for a pharaoh, and it is still unknown exactly how ancient Egyptians built such buildings.
What is a pyramid?
This religion is based on the spiritual teachings of Siddartha Guatama and started in India and spread to other Asian countries.
What is Buddhism?
This ancient form of Greek government from Athens is the basis of our own in the United States.
What is democracy?
This is the basic difference in Jewish and Christian teaching about Jesus.
This is the name for the code of ancient civil laws in Mesopotamia that were often harsh and cruel, though the punishment was intended to fit the crime.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This female pharaoh took the throne herself when Thutmose III was about eight years old, and they ruled together. (Daily Double)
Who is Hatshepsut?
This Chinese philosopher focused on unifying Chinese society and preached family, societal, and government values in his many famous quotations.
Who is Confucius?
While a young boy, this famous military general tamed a wild horse Bucephalus and became his owner and ruler of a vast empire that stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
He was a Roman general and dictator who was named dictator for life, ending the Roman Republic.
Who was Julius Caesar?
First civilization from Mesopotamia to develop a writing system
Who were the Sumerians?
What group of people within Egypt switched from polytheism to monotheism, whom we have read about in Blest Are We?
Who are the ancient Hebrews?
This major trade route in China spread throughout the Asian continent, helping China not be as isolated as it once was.
What is the Silk Road?
This system of thought seeks to understand the mysteries and meaning of life and means "love of wisdom" in Greek.
What is philosophy?
Emperor Constantine declared this to be the official religion of Rome, ending persecution of people who practiced this religion.
What is Christianity?