Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
Indus River Valley
Ancient Rome
Ancient China
100
A small strip of land with water on both sides that connects to larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
100
Any change of fertile land into desert.
What is desertification?
100
A large land area isolated from the rest of a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
100
A form of government in which citizens elect representatives to make all government decisions.
What is a republic?
100
A set of ideas that have been passed down from one generation to another.
What is heritage?
200
Adapting customs from one culture for use in another.
What is cultural borrowing?
200
A triangle shaped area of islands in marshes at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
A smaller river that feeds into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
200
One or two chief officials who held office in the ancient roman republic.
What is a consul?
200
A good quality.
What is virtue?
300
A long story or poem.
What is an epic?
300
Fine bits of rock in soil carried or deposited by water.
What is silt?
300
A written message etched into a large, long lasting surface.
What is an inscription?
300
A ruler with absolute authority.
What is a dictator?
300
The right to rule; the Chinese believed heaven gave it to their emperors.
What is the mandate of heaven?
400
In Ancient Greece, a city-state consisting of a town and the farms and villages that surround it.
What is a polis?
400
To tell ahead of time what will happen.
What is to predict?
400
A citizen of the Indus River Valley.
What is a Harrapan?
400
A council of representatives.
What is a senate?
400
Structures built by the government for use by everyone.
What are public works?
500
A story that is passed down from generation to generation and usually tells about an ancient god or hero.
What is a myth?
500
A waterfall or spot where water runs fast over rocks.
What is a cataract?
500
An important center of ancient Indus civilization, on the western bank of the Indus River, in present day Pakistan.
What is Mojeno-Daro?
500
A descendant of rome's earliest settlers.
What is a patrician?
500
A person who studies the meaning of life.
What is a philosopher?
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