Mesopotamian
The belief system of Mesopotamian civilizations, which included worship of many gods.
What is polytheistic?
In the Egyptian underworld, the heart is weighed against this object to determine purity.
What is a feather?
This island symbolizes drug addiction in The Odyssey.
What is the Island of the Lotus Eaters.
These thinkers we believed we cannot control our fate, but we can have some influence over it
Who are the Stoics?
This idea of treating others are you would like to be treated is found across religions and cultures.
What is the Golden Rule?
These massive Mesopotamian structures featured successively receding stories and were often temples to the gods.
What are ziggurats?
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the deceased must make confessions to this many gods.
What is 42?
This group made clever, often false arguments.
Who are the Sophists?
This Roman emperor was known as the Philosopher-King
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
This is a method of instruction based on questioning and discussion.
What is the Socratic Method?
Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, was located in this region.
What is the Middle East?
This Egyptian goddess served as a form of justice for souls entering the afterlife.
Who is Ma'at?
Socrates was sentenced to drink hemlock for this reason, as he challenged traditional values in Athens.
What is corrupting the youth of Athens?
Gave us the Archimedean Screw.
Who is Archimedes?
According to this theory by Plato, every physical object is a flawed version of its ideal form.
What is the Theory of Forms?
The Mesopotamians invented this around 3000 BCE.
What is the wheel?
People who wrote and made copies of writings in Ancient Egypt.
Who are scribes?
This quality is what Odysseus is most admired for in his adventures.
What is his cleverness?
Father of Geometry; wrote The Elements.
Who is Euclid?
Known as the first epic, this tale teaches us that we must accept our mortality and limitations.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Type of writing developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
This Egyptian book gives details on the afterlife.
What is The Book of the Dead?
The heroes of the Trojan War are featured in these two epic poems by Homer.
What are The Iliad and The Odyssey.
“The Laughing Philosopher” who came up with the first atomic theory.
Who is Democritus?
This set of laws protected the weak from the strong, unified a kingdom, and punished corrupt officials.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?