Ancient Mesopotamia
People who move from place to place as a group to find food for themselves.
What are nomads?
A person who wrote and kept records.
What is a scribe?
A gathering place or a marketplace.
What is an agora?
A river that is also known as The Yellow River.
What is the Huang He river?
In Ancient Rome, a person who faught people or animals for public entertainment.
What is a gladiator?
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates river in the Middle East.
Where is Mesopotamia located?
The Sun God.
Who was Ra?
The Greeks believed it was a ratio that provided a pleasing visual appearance.
What was the Golden Section?
A succession of rulers from a single family.
What is a dynasty?
A curved ceiling made of arches.
What is a vault?
Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia.
What are the 5 Ancient Civilizations that settled in Mesopotamia?
An Egyptian structure that had a face of a human and a body of a lion.
What is the Sphinx?
Art, science, and philosophy flourished during that time.
What was the Golden Age?
Two small bags filled with fingernails, toenails, and hair were placed in the coffin.
What happened when a person died?
He was killed because he was becoming to powerful.
Why was Julius Caesar killed?
The time period when people learned to heat and combine metals to make weapons.
What is the Bronze Age?
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins.
What is a shadoof?
An ancient Greek leader and supporter of democracy.
Who was Pericles?
The tomb was accidentally discovered by a farmer in 1974.
When was Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb discovered?
A language based on Latin.
What is a "romance language?"
A set of laws and punishments developed by the king of Babylonia.
What was Hammurabi's Code?
In order for their souls to exist in the afterlife, they believed their bodies had to be preserved.
Why did Egyptians mummify their dead?
A Greek woman was kidnapped by a Trojan prince.
What caused the war in the "Iliad?"
A manual calculator.
What is an abacus?
In 79 A.D.
What year was Pompeii buried?