Ancient Mesopotamia
These two rivers helped Mesopotamia's civilization
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
A ruler of Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
The Greek word for city-state
What is polis?
During this period the Great wall of China strengthened into a stone wall that was over 4,5050 miles long
What was the Ming Dynasty?
This Roman invention revolutionized Roman Agriculture
What is concrete?
What Mesopotamia used to control floods
What are levees?
A great tomb stone built for a pyramid
What is a pyramid?
Each Greek polis had a high, fortified part where there were public buildings and armament
What is an acropolis?
The civilization of ancient China developed along this river
What is the yellow river?
This place was the chief marketplace of Rome
What is the forum?
Farming; growing crops and raising livestock
What is agriculture?
Egypt was around which river
What is the Nile river?
These people in Greek weer treated differently, and had o sty home watch the house and the children
What were Greek woman?
Trade routes to West Asia and Europe became known as
What is the Silk Road?
The Romans made great use of this Etruscan invention
What is an arch?
The area got its names because the soil is fertile, and the region is shaped like a crescent
What is the Fertile crescent?
The Egyptians believed in this after a pharaohs death
What is the afterlife?
The ratio from the head to navel and from navel to feet represents
What is the Golden section?
This dynasty is considered the first dynasty of kings to rule China
What is the Xia dynasty?
They created this by putting a series of arches side by side
What is a vault?
The most important idea was that the Phoenicians spread was
What was the Phoenicians alphabet?
The Nile river runs from
What is the South to the East?
A pillar that was actually a carved human statue
What is a caryatid column?
The Xia dynasty was eventually replaced with the
What is the Shang Dynasty?
This was created by several arches crossing n different directions in a circular pace that intersected in the center
What is an dome?