Mesopotamia
This is another name for Mesopotamia, given because of its shape and rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This ruler is at the top of the social pyramid in Egypt.
What is the pharaoh?
The people hold the power in this form of government.
What is democracy?
This Greek city-state encouraged citizens to be involved in government.
What is Athens?
Prehistory is the time before ______.
What is writing?
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The first female ruler of Egypt:
Who is Hatsheput?
What Greek city-state was an oligarchy in which the ruling power was in the hands of just a few people.
What is Sparta?
Athens had this type of democracy, unlike the United State having a representative democracy.
What is direct democracy?
During the period of "Chaos" man lived like animals in this state.
What is state of nature?
This famous king established the first set of written laws and consequences.
Who is Hammurabi?
Along what geographic feature were Egyptian cities located along?
What is the Nile River?
The women from this Greek city-state had more rights than that of other Greek women.
What is Sparta?
Pythagoras, Euclid, and Hypatia are all known for their contribution to this major cultural achievement of Athens.
What is mathematics
What development allowed civilizations to form?
What is agriculture?
This is an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
This pharaoh was known as a great military leader and builder of many monuments.
Who was Ramses II, or Ramses the Great?
This term means, "the love of wisdom."
What is philosophy?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were known for their contributions to this major cultural achievement of Athens.
What is philosophy?
In the Social Contract Theory, people agree to give up some of these in order to enter a civil society.
What are freedoms?
These systems were built by the Sumerians to control flooding and create a steady water supply.
What are irrigation systems? (levees & dams)
Most people in Egypt belonged in the social class of:
What are peasants/farmers?
He was the ruler of a vast empire that extended from Macedonia to India in the 300s B.C.E.
Who was Alexander the Great.
He was the great leader during the Golden Age of Athens that citizens participate in government.
Who was Pericles?
What is the earliest civilization that we've studied?
What is Mesopotamia?