Common people in Rome
mythology
What is collection of myths or transitional stories?
A new way of doing things
What is innovation?
A preserved body wrapped in linen cloth
what is a mummy?
Romulus and Remus
What legend explains the origin of how Rome got its name?
decimal system
What do you call a system based on the number 10 using pictographs?
a large structure containing government buildings and palaces
what is a citadel?
A huge hollow wooden horse
What did the Mycenaeans hide in to intrude the city of Troy?
A code of laws or important beliefs to follow daily
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
a person who has the right to another persons property when that person dies
what is an heir?
Peloponnesus
what was the large southern peninsula of Greece called?
"great house"
what does pharaoh mean?
Census
What do you call a count of countries people?
1200 B.C.
In about what year did the Mycenaean culture end?
cuneiform
What is the name of the type of symbols the Sumerians used?
the Hyksos
who gained control over Egypt in the 1600s B.C.?