Mesopotamia
The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
The gentle flooding of this river brought life to the Egyptian desert
Nile
Fought against each other in the Persian Wars
Greece and Persia
The legendary twins who founded Rome
Romulus and Remus
This was the first dynasty of China that we have proof of
Shang
This empire was tolerant of the people it conquered and treated them fairly
Persia
Earliest written language
Cuneiform
Ancient Egyptian writing system
hieroglyphics
Fought against each other in the Peloponnesian Wars
Athens and Sparta
The geographic feature that made early Roman cities easy to defend
hills
Chinese writing is based on these
Pictographs
This trading empire developed the first phonetic alphabet
Phoenicians
Ancient Mesopotamian pyramid like temple
Ziggurat
The tallest man-made structures of the ancient world
pyramids
The first gov’t controlled by the people, started in Athens
democracy
Rome defeated this empire in the Punic Wars and took control of north Africa and Spain
Carthage
This river was were Chinese civilization started
Yellow River (Huang He)
Which Mesoamerican civilization built a vast network of roads to connect their empire
Inca
The first written system of laws
Hammurabi’s Code
The two original regions of Egypt, eventually united into one empire
Upper and Lower
The slaves that Sparta created a military society to control
helots
Government where leaders are elected to represent the people
republic or representative democracy
This soft cloth produced by worms is what the trade route from China to the Mediterranean is named after
Silk
This is the name of the social hierarchy system found in ancient India
Caste system
Natural event that brings life and death
Flooding
Necessary for pharaohs to reach the afterlife
mummification
Started by Greek people all over the Med region in order to import more food back to Greece
colonies
The segment of Roman society that had the most political power
patricians
Legalism
The name of the original scriptures of Hinduism
Vedas