Ancient Mesopotamia
What are the two rivers that made Mesopotamia the "cradle of civilization"?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
What river was essential to the growth of Ancient Egypt?
What is the Nile River?
What was built to help protect China from invaders?
What is the Great Wall of China?
Which city-state did democracy begin?
What is Athens?
Which Roman dictator was stabbed 23 times in the senate room?
Who is Julius Caesar?
What achievement allowed Mesopotamians to farm on a large scale?
What is irrigation?
What did the Pharaohs use the Pyramids for?
What is Tombs?
What is the name of the philosophy that taught respect for family and elders?
What is confucianism?
Which mountain did the Greeks believe the Olympian gods lived on?
What is Mt. Olympus?
What religion began during the Roman Empire?
What is Christianity?
What was the name of the first written law code created in Babylon?
What is Hammurabi's code?
Why did the Nile River help Egyptian civilization grow
What is it provided fertile soil, water, transportation, and food?
Which emperor used legalism to control China under one central government?
Who is Emperor Qin?
Which Greek King conquered the Persian Empire and helped spread Greek ideas and culture?
Who is Alexander the Great?
What is monotheism?
What is the belief in one God.
What is polytheism?
What is the belief in many gods/goddesses?
Why was the preservation of bodies during mummification important?
What is to help guide their bodies to the afterlife?
what is to increase trade and spread ideas, goods, and culture?
Who was the god of the forge?
What are the reasons the Roman Republic fell and turned into an Empire?
What is unrest within the plebian class, use of military force to take control and become dictator, and corruption in the senate/patrician class?
What was the name of the poem written in ancient Mesopotamia that incorporated many gods and goddesses? (First hero story)
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Which Pharaoh created the world's first peace treaty?
Who is Ramses II?
What were oracle bones used for?
What is to ask ancestors for advice on the future?
Which empire invaded Greece twice, but failed both times?
What is the Persian Empire?
How did Rome's location help it become more powerful?
What is it made it easier to expand and through the Mediterranean and through Europe.