Civilizations
This civilization was first.
What is ancient Mesopotamia?
This civilization contributed pyramids.
What is Egypt?
Things that teach us about a civilization.
What is an artifact?
a name given to Egyptian kings or queens
What is a pharaoh?
bring the gods closer to earth.
What was the purpose of a ziggurat?
the Black Plague
What caused the fall of the Middle Ages?
This civilization contributed the Acropolis.
What is Greece?
A large group of people who live in an organized way.
What is a civilization?
This is why we study ancient civilizations.
What is to understand history, learn from it, and make good choices for the future?
Priests who lived in the ziggurats.
Who was to take care of the gods?
this city was preserved for 1,000 years
What Was Pompeii?
This civilization contributed arches and domes.
What is Rome?
Many hundreds or thousands of years ago.
What is ancient times?
a ruling family within a civilization
What is a dynasty?
So they could go to the afterlife.
Why did Egyptians preserve bodies?
Renaissance
A war fought for religious reasons.
What is a crusade?
A large area of land conquered by a group of people who have a lot of power.
What is an empire?
the longest river
What is the Nile?
A place to bury their pharaohs.
Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?
The event that happened when the land beside the Nile got silt.
What was the flooding of the Nile?
This civilization contributed the earliest cities and forms of writing in clay.
What is Mesopotamia?
A government that allows people to have a say.
What is a democracy?
A paper made of reeds(grass)that Egyptians wrote on.
What is, "papyrus?"
because the laws were written in stone, everyone knew the laws.
What was important about Hammurabi's Code of Law?