A type of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
The main river in ancient China.
What is the Huang He?
100
The study of the structure of the human body.
What is anatomy?
200
The Sumerian way of writing.
What is cuneiform
200
The lifeblood of Egypt?
What was the Nile?
200
Someone who seizes power and rules with total authority.
What is a tyrant?
200
When an aristocrat died, another member of his family guarded his territory.
What is heredity?
200
Patterns made of small pieces of glass.
What are mosaics?
300
A group of many different lands under one empire.
What is an empire?
300
An Egyptian ruler.
What is a Pharaoh?
300
A Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
300
Military leaders who lead their own armies.
What are warlords?
300
People who fight each other (or animals) to the death for entertainment.
Who were gladiators?
400
A harsh ruler until his friend Enkidu taught him to be nice and one day he and Enkidu decided to become heros and try to fight the monster who lived in a cave, Humbaba
Who was Gilgamesh?
400
A material burned to make a good smell.
What is incense?
400
An area outside of the acropolis.
What is an agora?
400
People of noble birth whose wealth came from the land they owned.
What are aristocrats?
400
A type of medicine used with needles.
What is acupuncture?
500
"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
What was Hammurabi's code?
500
City built for pyramid workers.
What is Giza?
500
Like the Greeks.
What does "Hellenistic" mean?
500
The belief that the Chinese kings right to rule came from the gods.