Prehistory
The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.
What is domestication?
In contrast to later empires, which conquered their neighbors, the Indus Valley people were largely _____.
What is peaceful?
This large river was the home of Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
The two broad social classes of Ancient Rome.
What are Patricians and Plebians?
The highest God in Ancient Egyptian mythology. (Hint: His name is the combination of two smaller gods)
Who is Amun-Ra?
Name one way society changed after the introduction of modern agriculture.
What is permanent settlements, larger population, stable food supply, specialization of labor, domestication of animals, and complex tools?
A large, walled-city in Mesopotamia.
What is Uruk?
What were pyramids used for?
What are tombs for pharaohs?
The Peloponnesian War was between ________ and ______.
What are Athens and Sparta?
The Ancient Egyptian God of the Dead.
Who is Osiris? (OR Anubis)
A period of time when glaciers covered great stretches of land
What is an Ice Age?
This set of laws in Mesopotamia is remembered by the phrase "an eye for an eye."
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Name at least 3 social classes in Ancient Egypt.
What are pharaohs, government officials, priests, scribes, artisans, and slaves.
Aristophaness was a playwright and is called the Father of _______.
What is comedy?
Ancient Greek God of the Sea
Who is Poseidon?
15,000 years ago, before modern agriculture, humans were _______ and ________.
What is hunters and gatherers? (OR foragers)
The largest public building in Mohenjo-Daro. (Hint: it involves water!)
What is the Great Bath?
This pharaoh ruled briefly but gained fame because of treasures found buried with him.
Who is King Tut?
Caesar marched on Rome with the ______ and overthrew Co-Consul _______.
What is the 13th legion? Who is Pompey?
The most important Olympian god is _______, God of the _______.
Who is Zeus, God of the Sky? (OR Thunder)
The ______ revolution was a period of history when the development of agriculture changed the world (also called the Agricultural Revolution).
What is Neolithic Revolution?
This group conquered Mesopotamia and built an empire.
Who are the Assyrians?
______ could own and pass on property. They could buy and sell goods, make wills, and obtain divorces. Upper-class ______ were in charge of temples and could perform religious ceremonies.
What are women in Ancient Egypt?
The first emperor of Rome. (Hint: It's not Julius Caesar!)
Who is Caesar Augustus (OR Octavian)
Who is Athena?