Ancient Mesopotamia
A pyramid shaped structure with a temple on the top.
What is a Ziggurat?
Great stone tombs built for a Egyptian pharaoh.
What is a Pyramid?
A Greek city state.
What is a Polis?
A person that is someone is descended from.
What is a Ancestor?
In ancient Rome, a person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
What is a gladiator?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is Cuneiform?
Fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into sea.
What is a Delta?
A gathering place marketplace in Ancient Greece.
What is a Agora?
A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.
What is Pictograph?
A lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life.
What is a ode?
A belief in more than one god.
What is Polytheism?
A line of rulers from one family.
What is a Dynasty?
An absolute ruler unrestrained by law.
What is a Tyrant?
A military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area.
What is a warlord?
Motifs or images created by an arrangement of colored glass or stone.
What is Mosaics?
Having to do with soldiers and weapons.
What is a military?
A reed plant that grows along the Nile river.
What is Papyrus?
A group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland.
What is a Colony?
Originally, a Chinese practice of inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain.
What is Acupuncture?
Three rulers who share equal political power.
What is Triumvirate?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks made in soft clay.
What is Cuneiform?
The process of treating a body to keep it from decaying.
What is Embalming?
A high ranked government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders.
What is a Ephor?
The administrative service of a government.
What is the civil service?
People considered holy by followers of the Christian faith.
What are Saints?