Rivers
This is the name of the civilization that was founded between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Pluto, Juno, Neptune, Venus, Apollo, Mars, and Saturn are all Gods and Goddesses worshipped by this civilization
What is Rome?
This technology allowed groups of people to settle in one place and develop civilization
What is agriculture?
This is the largest and most famous of the Egyptian pyramids.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
The Romans spoke this language, which is the root of the Romance languages which include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
What is Latin?
This river's delta provided the ancient Egyptians rich soil for agriculture
What is the Nile?
The Parthenon, a famous temple in Athens Greece, is dedicated to this goddess of wisdom and warfare
Who is Athena?
The ancient Sumerians invented this using wooden sticks and clay
What is cuneiform (the first writing)
The classical white marble sculptures of these two civilizations were recently discovered to have originally been painted bright, gaudy colors.
What are Greece and Rome?
This Chinese invention along with brush writing with ink made written documents lighter and more portable.
What is paper?
The Huang He and Chang Jiang rivers provided rich floodplains for the founding of an agricultural civilization known to us as what
What is China?
This monotheistic religion's holy book is the Quran
What is Islam?
This ancient civilization is credited with inventing the wheel, lever, and pulley. The first depictions of a wheeled vehicle are on 4th millenium clay tablets from Uruk.
What is Mesopotamia?
These are two of the most common features of Greek and Roman architecture used in public buildings today.
What are columns and arches?
Ancient Hindu texts such as the Vedas are written in this language, one of the oldest written languages in the world.
What is Sanskrit?
The Ganges is believed to be a holy river by the followers of this polytheistic religion of India
What is Hinduism?
This monotheistic religion was founded by Abraham in the city state of Ur
What is Judaism?
3 simple machines allowed the ancient Egyptians to move millions of limestone blocks which weighed approximately 3.5 tons (7,000 lbs.) . Name one of these tools.
The Standard of Ur which depicts different levels of society in chips of lapis lazuli and other stones is one of the most famous examples of this form of art, common throughout the ancient world.
What is mosaic?
This epic poem about a grouchy king, the earliest great work of written literature, was written in cuneiform by the ancient Akkadians.
This river, sacred to Jews and Christians, borders the West Bank, Israel, Jordan, and the Golan Heights. It is believed to be where ancient Israelites crossed over to the promised land and where Jesus was baptized.
What is the Jordan River
The most common form of Christianity practiced in what was once the Eastern Roman Empire
What is Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox
The earliest evidence of urban sanitation was seen in Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, settlements in this ancient civilization
The cave drawings at Lascaux, France are some of the oldest known art. They were found by two boys and this pet animal
Who is a dog (named Robot)?
Egyptian Hieroglyphs were finally deciphered when this stone tablet was found to include the same message in three ancient texts
What is the Rosetta Stone?