Mesopotamia
His harsh code of laws dealt with almost every aspect of daily life
Who was Hammurabi?
The title used by the rulers of Egypt
What is pharaoh?
Seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons
What are monsoons?
The belief that strong ethics would fix society, founded by a Chinese teacher
What is Confucianism?
A type of government where the people have the power, invented by Athenians
What is democracy?
Twin brothers of legend who founded Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
The civilization that existed in the Yucatan peninsula from 1000BC until about 900AD
Who are the Maya?
The belief in and worship of multiple gods
What is polytheism?
The Egyptians believed you could only enjoy the afterlife if your body was preserved so they created this process
What is mummification?
This language was the most important of ancient India
What is Sanskrit?
A fierce emperor of ancient China, some saw him as villainous while others saw him as a hero
Who is Shi Huangdi?
A war between Athens and Sparta that almost tore all of Greece apart
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The type of government where people elect leaders to govern them, ancient Rome had an early form of it
What is republic?
The Aztecs believed this was required in order to appease the gods, sometimes up to 10,000 times per year
What is human sacrifice?
A large stretch of good farmland where Mesopotamia was located
What is the Fertile Crescent?
She was the first woman to rule Egypt
Who is Hatshepsut?
Siddhartha Gautama, the 'enlightened one'
Who is Buddha?
The practice invented by ancient Chinese of inserting fine needles into specific points of the body to relieve pain
What is acupuncture?
Famous Greek poet who wrote the epic poems The Illiad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
The Latin word for 'prohibit' that is used in US government today
What is veto?
The Maya invented a very accurate one of these during the height of their empire
What is a calendar?
The world's first system of writing
What is cuneiform?
A stone slab created in ancient Egypt that helped translate hieroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The largest religion in India
What is Hinduism?
The belief that people are bad by nature and need to be harshly controlled
What is Legalism?
Three great teachers and philosophers from ancient Greece (hint: one taught the next and then he taught the next)
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
A series of wars between Rome and Carthage
What are the Punic Wars?
Spanish conquerors who took down the Aztec and Inca empires
What are conquistadors?
OR
Who are Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro?
The two rivers that Mesopotamia was located in between
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The longest ruling Egyptian pharaoh
Who is Ramses the Great?
This system divided Indian society into groups based on people's birth or wealth
What is the caste system?
The rivers of China
What are the Yellow and Yangzi rivers?
A famous ancient Greek writer, known for his fables
Who is Aesop?
What is Octavian?
An early Inca ruler who expanded their territory
Who is Pachacuti?