Ancient Egypt
This river was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt and flooded yearly to help crops grow.
What is the Nile River?
This city-state was famous for democracy.
What is Athens?
Romans used this large arena for gladiator fights.
What is the Colosseum?
This structure was built to help protect China from invaders.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This term means the beliefs, customs, and way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
Egyptians used this type of picture writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
This city-state focused heavily on military training.
What is Sparta?
This system carried fresh water into Roman cities.
What are aqueducts?
This Chinese philosophy focused on respect and proper behavior.
What is Confucianism?
This type of map shows landforms and elevation.
What is a physical map?
This famous Egyptian queen allied with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
These athletic competitions began in Ancient Greece.
What are the Olympic Games?
This Roman leader crossed the Rubicon River and became dictator.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This trade route connected China to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This geographic feature is fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
What is a Canopic Jar?
This is what greeks called a city.
What is a "Polis"
This volcano destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
This material invented by the Chinese changed writing forever.
What is paper?
This portion of the map tells you which direction something is.
What is a Compass Rose?
This discovery helped historians finally read Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This war was fought between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This phrase describes the long period of peace in Ancient Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
This dynasty is famous for terracotta soldiers buried with the emperor.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
What are lines of latitude and longitude?