Legacy of Mesopotamia
Allows boats to travel farther in water without oars
What is a sail?
A special process of perserving a body
What is mummification?
Chemically treated material used for writing and other purposes
What is paper?
Writing system that the Greeks adapted from local Phoenician traders
What is Alphabet?
Provides water to cities by transferring water down from mountain regions
What is Aqueduct?
Allows carts to be moved without being dragged on the ground
What is the wheel?
Through mummification this allowed Egyptians to study bodies and organs
What is anatomy?
An early form of this device was called a "fish"
What is a compass?
Through this Ancient Greek mathematicians work, we have geometry and algebra
What is Euclid?
This once grand stadium was used to entertain the thousands of Rome's population with gladiator fights and sea battles
What is the Colosseum?
Using wet clay and a stone stylus, the Sumerians were the first to invent this skill
What is writing?
Queen Hatsheput was the first female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt to introduce this concept and use her kingdoms location to buy and sell goods and establish a major trading center
What is commerce?
A device used in the creation of books and a early form of copying
What is printing press?
The Ancient Greeks are known for philosophy because of this person who first started this concept
Who is Socrates?
This Roman general and statesman would become known as the founder of the Roman Empire and the famous family dynasty that would run it for centuries
Who is Julius Caesar?
This law was known to have all 314 of it's contents written down for all to see so that everyone would know their rights
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
From massive monuments and temples to traps and detailed schematics, Ancient Egypt is known today for being a leading expert of this skill
What is Construction?
Once a close guarded secret of China, this highly marketed trade good is made from worms and is still used today in everyday items from clothing to bedding
What is silk?
Once a Greek concept of decision making, government, and way of life, it further developed into being used primarily in government and political areas in modern day society
What is democracy?
By electing officials into positions, this Roman concept became an important building block to American and other nations political systems of establishing leadership in both the local and federal levels of government
What is republic?