Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia, meaning "land between the two rivers," was aptly named due is position between which two rivers?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The famous river that was essential to life in Ancient Egypt, also the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
Due to the mountainous terrain of Greece, ancient Greeks were unable to travel and communicate with each other well, leading to the development and rise of the Greek ____-____. Athens and Sparta are two of the most well-known.
What are city-states?
This famous Native-American Disney princess was actually based on a real person, though she was much younger than the movie portrayed and her story doesn't end as happily.
Who is Pocahontas?
These animals were highly regarded by many in Ancient Egypt. Many even believed they were gods!
What are cats?
This ancient Mesopotamian leader is credited with the writing of this code, which states "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out."
Who is Hammurabi?
These long reeds found in the Nile River were used by ancient Egyptians to make the first paper material, sharing the same name as the plant from which it is derived.
What is papyrus?
This ancient Greek city-state was known for its citizens' love of art, architecture, beauty, science, and philosophy, aptly named after the Greek goddess of knowledge.
What is Athens.
Many Native American tribes (Plains Tribes) participated in a _____ lifestyle in which they followed the migration of the buffalo.
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
This Ancient Greek city-state was known for its hyper-military state, sending boys as young as 7-years-old to start warrior training.
What is Sparta?
What is clay?
This process, which involved removal of the brain through the nasal passage, as well as all other organs, was used to preserve the bodies of nobles who had died to ensure they experienced safe passage to the afterlife to be judged by the god Osiris.
What is mummification?
This sports tradition started in Ancient Greece, the earliest recorded instance being in 776 B.C.E., and was held in the summer once every four years to honor the gods.
What is/are the Olympic Games?
Villages of the various Puget Sound tribes consisted of a few large houses made of this type of wood.
What is cedar?
This zodiac sign's animal symbol is the Lion, and is also the sign which Ms. Brooklyn was born under.
What is Leo?
Ancient Babylonians are responsible for this arithmetical system you probably first experienced around 6th grade. Here is a sample problem from this subject. If 4x+5=25, find the value of x.
What is Algebra?
Around 80 of these great structures were built all around Egypt as tombs for very powerful pharaohs, the largest of which reaches 500 feet into the sky.
What are the pyramids?
This ancient Greek myth attempts to explain the origin of human misfortune and the dangers of curiosity by telling the story of a woman, whom the god Zeus created, who opened a container which released all the evils that plague humanity. The only thing left in the box, it is told, was hope, which humanity had managed to hold onto.
What is Pandora's Box?
The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 occurred near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and devastated the population of these Native American peoples.
Who are the Lakota Sioux?
This Boys and Girls Club program is aimed at helping youth achieve academic success by providing opportunities for youth to access the assistance and resources they need to excel in their studies.
The origins of this cosmic scientific discipline can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia. The people looked to the sky to create their calendars, and were even able to predict eclipses.
What is Astronomy?
Also accepted: What is astrology?
Who is Queen Cleopatra?
This ancient Greek thinker and philosopher was concerned with finding the ultimate truth through reason and knowledge. He questioned everything around him and gave public lectures in the town square about his findings. Eventually, he was put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens and was sentenced to death at 70 years old.
Who was Socrates?
This famous Native American woman helped explorer duo Lewis Clark navigate the lands of the Louisiana territory.
Who was Sacagawea?
This organ in the human body weighs about 3 pounds and is responsible for sending and receiving electrical pulses that contain "messages" that range from telling the body what action to do, to recognizing the texture of an object.
What is the brain?