Ancient Greece
An important game held every four years in Ancient Greece was called:
Olympic Games
Spider who was written into folklore as a trickster
Anasi
The art of sitting mindfully
Quietude
Fertile Crescent
Formed along the _____ River
Nile
Athenian's greatest rivals were the:
Spartans
Two most important kingdoms in Africa were:
Kush and Nubia
Material that comes from worms and makes elegant clothing.
silk
One of the major inventions that we still use everyday:
The Wheel
How they preserved the dead in a process called:
Mummification
Leader who believed he was a heroic, godlike figure and would return Greece to its glory
Alexandar the Great
The berbers crossed the desert in large:
caravans
Philosopher who believed that an evil ruler was responsible for their evil citizens.
Confucious
Two most important rivers were:
The Euphrates, Tigris
The goddess that set an example to all Egyptian housewives.
Isis
Illness that Alexander the Great died from was called:
Marsh Fever
Ghana made money by:
Charging people taxes to cross their territory
Lao-Tzu wrote about three treasures that governed the human mind as:
love, lack of ambition, frugality
Invented the mathematical system counting by tens known as the:
decimal system
God in the form of an Egyptian dogs
Anubis
A huge statue built to honor the God: Helios. The word "colossal" comes from it.
"Colossus of Rhodes"
Young prince who overcame his physical disability and overthrew Sumanguru.
Prince Sundiata
The secret of making silk stayed with the Chinese for this many years:
3,000
Approximate number of laws outlined by Hammurabi
300
The name of Egyptian writing system
Hieroglyphics