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100

This region lay between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.

What is Mesopotamia?

100
This man wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
This is the belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
100
This is a government led by one person, like a king or an emperor.
What is a monarchy?
100
These are people who wander from place to place instead of settling down in one location.
Who are nomads?
200

The city of Sparta was built on this peninsula in ancient Greece

What is the Peloponnesus?

200

This ancient Mesopotamian leader created a new set of laws that were called codes (an eye for an eye is an example of one of the laws).

Who is Hammurabi?

200
This was the system of symbols and picture writing used in ancient Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
200
In this type of government, power is held by the citizens.
What is a democracy?
200
This word is another name for a city-state.
What is polis?
300

This is the famous Goddess of wisdom that represents the Greek city called Athens (hint-Ms. Nguyen's favorite goddess).

Athena

300

What are three things features that you use to determine the Geography of an area?

What are types of land, weather, bodies of water, plant life, and animal life

300

These are traditional stories that explain the origins of humans, fire, the oceans and the sky, and other things

What are myths?

300
This is a line of rulers who all come from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
The strong winds that bring heavy summer rains to the Indian subcontinent are called ____________.
What are monsoons?
400

This river is sometimes called "the Great Sorrow" because of the devastating flooding it can cause.

What is the Huang He? (acceptable -- Yellow River)

400

What is a piece of land surrounded on three sides by water?

What is a Peninsula?

400

This was the name for the terraced temples of ancient Sumer.

What are ziggurats?

400

This is the name of ONE of the 3 seas surround Greece

What is Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, or the Aegean sea?

400
This is the earliest Chinese dynasty that can be verified from written records.
What is the Shang dynasty?
500
Name the two major cities of the Indus Valley civilization.
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
500

An agreement between groups to help each other

What is an alliance?

500

What are three geographical features of ancient Greece?

What are mountains, rivers, and peninsulas? 

500
This is an unusually cruel or harsh leader.
What is a tyrant?
500

The 3 groups of people that were not allowed to vote in ancient Greece

Who are women, slaves, and people who were not citizens

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