Ancient Egypt 1
This Egyptian god is associated with writing and scribes. He has the head of an ibis bird.
Thoth
This Egyptian god with the head of a jackal escorted the dead to the afterlife, and was the guardian of tombs, cemeteries, and mummies.
Anubis
This Greek god was known as Neptune to the Romans.
Poseidon
This Ancient Greek god was the main messenger of the Olympians. He wore winged sandals.
Hermes
What is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere called?
Equator
This city south of Cairo is the place where one can visit the famous pyramids.
Giza
This British archeologist discovered the tomb of King Tut.
Howard Carter
This Ancient Greek city-state was one of the largest in Ancient Greece. Only boys from rich families went to school.
Athens
This Ancient Greek city-state had about 10 times as many slaves as citizens. All children went to school starting at age 7.
Sparta
Which direction do lines of longitude run: from north to south or from east to west?
From north to south (or top to bottom)
This Egyptian sky god is the son of Osiris and Isis. He is usually portrayed as having the body of a man and the head of a falcon.
Horus
This object helped scholars decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone
This type of source is produced at the time in the past being studied. It can include newspapers, diaries, photographs, and artefacts.
This type of source are usually produced later than the time in the past being studied, and usually involve an interpretation of what happened in the past. It includes history books, biographies, and Youtube videos.
Secondary
This type of map focuses on a single topic and shows how that topic would appear if it were added to a map. A weather map is an example of this kind of map.
Thematic
This book included detailed instructions on what the soul of a dead person should do upon entering the afterlife.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Egyptian hieroglyphics are categorized as either phonograms, which represent sound, or this other category, which represent objects or ideas.
Ideograms
This famous Greek philosopher taught his students by asking them questions instead of giving them facts.
Socrates
This word means a leader who takes power by force and rules alone, without the input of citizens.
Tyrant
What type of map projection is traditionally used for world maps, even though it distorts size and shape of countries like Greenland that are close to the poles?
Mercator Projection
The word "hieroglyphics" is not an Egyptian word. It actually comes from this other ancient civilization.
Greek (Greece)
Engineers and soldiers from this country discovered the Rosetta Stone when they occupied Egypt from 1798 to 1801.
France
The first major Greek civilization started on this island to the south of mainland Greece.
Crete
This famous Greek doctor was one of the first to believe that diseases were not caused by gods.
Hippocrates
Which map projection significantly distorts the shape of continents so that their general size is accurate, and thus Greenland is accurately shown to be much smaller than Africa?
The Gall-Peters Projection