Inventions
The writing system invented by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The top person was the Pharaoh.
Who were the ancient Egyptians.
The first civilization to practice monotheism briefly.
What were the Egyptians?
The home of the Greek gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
The most important building in a Mesopotamian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
What is irrigation?
This civilization had a king at the top of its pyramid.
Who were the Mesopatamians.
The civilization that believed in the after life?
Who were the Egyptians?
The most important city-state in ancient Greece-where democracy began.
What is Athens?
What King Philip and Alexander the Great was able to do to ancient Greece that hadn't been done before.
What is uniting the city-states?
Four inventions credited to the Egyptians that have impacted our lives?
What are pyramids, papyrus, hieroglyphs, and calender?
Peasants were the lowest class in this ancient civilization.
Who were the ancient Egyptians?
The Greek goddess of Love.
Who is Aphrodite?
The two rivers that cradled Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The two nicknames of Mesopotamia.
What are...?
- the fertile crescent
- the land between two rivers
These two inventions in Greek architecture can be seen in many public buildings in the western hemisphere?
What are columns and pediments?
The second highest ranking in Ancient Egypt.
Who are the government officials?
The god of mummification - he admitted the dead to the underworld.
Who is Anubis?
Writer of the first set of written laws.
Who was King Hammurabi?
The write of the Illiad and The Odyessy.
Who is Homer?
Name the oath that doctors' today take that was modeled after a belief in ancient Greek medicine
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
The ultimate ruler of Egypt.
Who was the pharaoh?
What is polytheism?
Home of the first ancient civilization.
What is Sumer?
The ancient Greeks are most famous for this activity that your teachers ask you to do almost all day long.
What is thinking? (philosophy, medicine, ethics, theatre, democracy/politics, science, debating....)