Ancient Greece Part 3
Father of the gods
Zeus
When was the Earth created?
4.6 Billion Years ago
What type of mine is under Lake Erie and Michigan?
Salt mine
What are the 2 rivers that Mesopotamia is situated between?
Tigres and Euphrates
What did Egyptians use to determine how much land that they could use around the Nile River for agriculture?
Mathematics
God of the sea and earthquakes
Poseidon
How did water get to earth?
Asteroids
What waterfall spills the excess water of the Great Lakes into Lake Ontario?
Niagara Falls
What are the 12 months of the year based on?
Constellations visible in the night sky
Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt?
Cleopatra
Lover of wisdom
Philosopher
What planet collided with Earth to create our moon?
Thea
What made mammals come down and out of the trees?
Savannahs
What are the 7 days of the week based on?
7 visible planets
What did they use for clothing in Ancient Egypt?
Linen
Logic
What was our 3rd and last supercontinent?
Pangea
What is the earliest known human species found in Africa?
Australopithecus
What was the Babylonian legal text?
Code of Hammurabi
What is the meaning of pharaoh?
Palace
Who said, “the unexamined life is a life not worth living?”
Socrates/Plato
What current day country broke apart from Pangea and collided with what is now Asia?
India
What is the greatest discovery in human history that completely changed the course of history?
Fire
What was the name of the earliest writing form to come out of Mesopotamia?
Cuneiform
What was the fertile soil that was deposited along the Nile River when it flooded?
Silt