Ancient Rome
The Romans built 50,000 miles of these.
What is roads?
This river gave life to the earliest Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
Being almost surrounded by seas, people in Greece became very good at this kind of transportation.
What is boating?
This river flooded and enriched the soil with silt.
What is the Nile River?
Julius Caesar conquered this land, which we now call France.
What is Gaul?
The ancient Romans had 200 years of peace, which is also known as this.
What is the Pax Romana?
Mesopotamia is the land between these 2 rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is the Greek word for city-state?
What is polis?
This statue, with a pharaoh head and a lion's body, sits proudly in front of the pyramids of Giza.
What is the sphinx?
After this battle a messenger made it to Athens, delivered the message, then dropped dead.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The leader of Carthage, Hannibal, used these animals to scare the Romans during the Punic Wars.
What are elephants?
Italy is surrounded on 3 sides by water which makes it this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
Ancient Greece was not unified, it was divided into these.
What are city-states?
These people were the builders of most Egyptian monuments until Moses freed them.
Who are the slaves?
The Peloponnesian War was fought between these 2 city-states in ancient Greece.
What is Sparta and Athens?
Rome divided their citizens into two categories the patricians and the __________________.
Who are the plebeians?
Greece was surrounded by hundreds of these geographical landforms.
What are islands?
After overthrowing the nobles of Greece, the government became this and citizens could vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy?
This was an honored occupation in ancient Egypt, these people kept records and accounts for the Egyptian government.
What is a scribe?
This great military leader conquered the entire Persian Empire in battle after battle, never losing a single one.
Who was Alexander the Great?
During the Roman Republic, the government was divided into this many parts to keep balance and so no one could take too much control.
What is 3 parts?
Greece, Italy, and Carthage all fought for control of this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This event was held every 4 years to honor the Greek god Zeus.
What is the Olympics?
This monument made by Egyptians was a tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed at the top.
What is an obelisk?
Rome and Carthage went to war 3 times to fight for control of the Mediterranean, this war was called the _______________________.
What was the Punic Wars?