Mesopotamia
Means "Old Stone Age"
What is Paleolithic?
On this river, the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
What is Indus River?
This is what Egyptian rulers were called
What is Pharoahs?
He is known as the most important Olympic God.
Who is Zeus?
He was Alexander's father who was murdered.
Who was Phillip II?
Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods by doing this.
What is performing rituals?
Things made by humans long ago.
What are artifacts?
India divided people into different groups under this type of system.
What is caste system?
This is the name of the river that runs through Egypt and farmers used it for irrigation.
What is the Nile?
This war between the city states Sparta and Athens weakened them so much that Alexander the Great was able to easily conquer Greece and beyond.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
He was Alexander's teacher who taught Alexander to love all things Greek.
Who was Aristotle?
One of the greatest inventors, he invented this claw device that lifted ships out of the water and sank them.
Who was Archimedes?
The first writing developed to keep track of records by the Mesopotamian people.
What is cuneiform?
This is the name of the religion that the Aryans declared to be important. It was probably used as a means to control the Indian people.
What is Hinduism?
Floods helped to create this type of fertile soil that enabled the Egyptians to be successful farmers.
What is silt?
This city was the first to be a democracy because all of its "citizens" could vote.
What is Athens?
The kingdom from which Alexander was originally from.
What is Macedonia?
He is known as the father of medicine.
Who was Hippocrates?
A group of traveling merchants who usually traveled in large groups and on camels.
What is a caravan?
He taught that cause of all suffering is desire, and the way to end suffering is to stop desiring things, accept the four noble truths and meditate to reach enlightenment.
Who is Buddha or Siddhatha Gautama?
She was one of the few women to rule Egypt, and she concentrated on trade more than war to make Egypt wealthy.
Who was Queen Hatshepsut?
He was a philosopher who perfected the art of asking questions. He was charged with corrupting Athen's youth and sentenced to die by drinking Hemlock.
Who is Socrates?
This was Alexander's beloved horse's name. A city is named after him.
What is Bucephalus?.
This Greek philosophy taught that to live a good life, one should only seek pleasure and happiness.
What is Epicureanism?
Chaldean king who built the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
To move up in the caste system, one must live a good life and follow this, one's caste's divine law.
What is the dharma?
He is the most famous ruler of ancient Egypt even though he died at the age of 19.
Who was King Tutankhamen?
Sophocles wrote this tragic play in which a young man learns that his fate is to kill his father and marry his mother, and, discovers that no matter what he does, he cannot escape his fate.
What is "Oedipus Rex"?
City where Alexander died either from illness and fever or poisoning. We may never know.
What is Babylon?
The word "philosophy" comes from a Greek word and means this.
What is "love of wisdom"?