Fluvial civilizations
What do all these civilizations have in common?
They are located next to a big river.
Name of the two main rivers of this area.
Tigris and Euphrates
What was the name of the king of Egypt named?
Pharaoh
Name of the 3 areas that made up Ancient Greece
European Greece, Greek islands of the Aegean Sea and Asia minor (cost of Western Turkey).
Name of the greatest king and conqueror of Macedonia.
Alexander the Great
Name four fluvial civilizations.
Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China
Name of the main sacred building and the material it was done with.
Ziggurat and bricks (baked clay).
Name two characteristics of Egyptian sculptures and painting?
Religious, lack of perspective, immobility, lack of expressions, canon of profile.
What was the main problem for agriculture that Greeks had?
The mountainous relief.
In which war did Athens and Sparta fight each other?
Peloponnesian war
What did the scribes write on at the beginning of writing?
Clay tables
What is the name of a religion with many different gods?
Polytheistic
Name 3 privileged groups of people in the Egyptian society.
Scribes, priests, nobles, officers, royal family, soldiers
What were the independent Greek city-states called?
Poleis
Name of the upper part of a Greek city (over a hill, well protected)?
Acropolis
Two reasons for becoming a slave.
Debts and war prisioners
What was the name of the king in Mesopotamia?
Patesi
What did Egyptians do with the bodies of the dead pharaohs?
Mummified them, put them in sarcophagi and locked them in tombs (such as the pyramids).
Name 3 things that Greeks had in common.
Language, alphabet, culture, religion, diet, way of living.
What was the name of the Athenian citizen assembly?
Ekklesia
Name of a society divided by different levels.
Hierarchical society
Name of the famous Babilonian king that created one of the first Codes of Laws.
Hammurabi
Name of the underground tombs that Egyptians made to avoid robbery.
Hipogeums
Name of the Greek civilization located in Crete.
Minoan civilization
Name of the 3 different Greek architectural orders.
Dorian, Ionian and Corinthian