Ancient Egypt
What provided fertile soil every year, and was the reason for the survival and success of the ancient Egyptian civilization?
What is the Nile River?
This city-state valued military strength and trained boys starting at age 7.
What is Sparta?
Legendary twins raised by this animal who founded Rome.
What is a she-wolf?
Egyptian daily life revolved around festivals, rituals, and farming cycles of this river.
What is the Nile?
One of the Seven Wonders still standing in Egypt.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This material was used to write the Book of the Dead.
What is papyrus?
Athens’ government where free men could vote directly.
What is democracy?
Rome became this type of government in 509 BCE.
What is a republic?
The sea that promoted Greek trade, navy, and exchange of ideas.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Greek epic that shows values of cleverness (Odysseus).
What is the Odyssey?
Egyptian art style featuring profile heads, frontal bodies, and showing important people larger.
What is hieratic scale?
Narrow pass where 300 Spartans held off the Persians.
What is Thermopylae?
Julius Caesar crossed this river, starting a civil war.
What is the Rubicon?
Rome’s central location on this river helped trade and defense.
What is the Tiber River?
Roman period of peace under the emperors.
What is Pax Romana?
The ceremony where the heart was weighed against the feather of Ma’at.
What is the Weighing of the Heart?
Alexander the Great spread this blended culture across his empire.
What is Hellenistic culture?
First emperor of Rome who restored republican titles.
Who is Augustus?
Natural barriers that helped protect ancient India (used in comparisons).
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
Philosophy that emphasized virtue, education, and social harmony (China).
What is Confucianism?
The French scholar who deciphered hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone.
Who is Jean-François Champollion?
Alexander’s father who unified Greece before him.
Who is Philip II (of Macedon)?
Volcanic mountain that buried Pompeii in 79 CE.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
“China’s Sorrow” – the river known for destructive floods.
What is the Yellow River?
Code of honor followed by Japanese samurai.
What is Bushido?