Ancient Mesopotamia
The main writing system in Mesopotamia.
What was Cuneiform?
The Egyptians believed that there was life after death.
What was afterlife?
A gathering place and marketplace in Ancient Greece.
What was an agora?
The responsibility children had to respect, obey, and care for their parents.
What was Filial Piety?
A person in Ancient Rome who fought people or animals to the death for public entertainment.
What were gladiators?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Where was Mesopotamia located?
The Egyptians built these great stone temples for their Pharaoh's afterlife.
What were the Pyramids of Egypt?
The city-state in Ancient Rome that focused manly on a strong military.
What was Sparta?
The river that started the Ancient China civilization that is also known as the yellow river.
What was the Huang He River?
The volcano that destroyed the city of Pompeii and killed the citizens almost instantly.
What was Mount Vesuvius?
Land of rich soil that is ideal for agriculture.
What was the Fertile Crescent?
The first female pharaoh of Egypt who helped construct the Great Temple.
Who was Queen Hatsheput?
A Persian religion based on the belief of one god.
What was Zoroastrianism?
A famous philosopher that taught people that they should withdraw form society and live very simple lives in harmony and nature.
Who was Lao-tzu?
The first Roman emperor.
Who was Augustus Caesar?
If a man knocked out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
What was a punishment of Hammurabi's code?
The goddess of war, and is symbolized as a woman with a vulture headdress.
Who was Mut?
Tragedy, comedy, and satyr.
What were the three types of plays that Greeks performed?
The emperor who wanted to end the practice of only allowing royal family members to be part of the government so he created civil service?
Who was Han Wudi?
The piece in Roman architecture that was borrowed from the Etruscans that the Romans used in various ways.
What was the Roman arch?
The king that ruled 1,000 years after King Hammurabi and ruled Babylon from 605 to 562 BC.
Who was King Nebuchadnezzar II?
One of the African Great Lakes that is named after a queen of England.
What was Lake Victoria?
The legendary and mysterious author who wrote two epic poems.
Who was Homer?
The religion many Chinese people went to when the Han dynasty fell and they were scared.
What was Buddhism?
The code system in the Byzantine Empire that made more sense to businessman and officials and eventually became many countries in the Western World's legal law system.
What was the Justinian Code?