Sparta & Athens
Vocabulary Words
Ancient Civilizations
Han Dynasty
Mesopotamia.
100

In Greece what divided the people

What is mountains?

100

He was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565. Husband of Theodora. 

Who is Justinian?

100

If a son has struck his father, they shall

cut off his.

What is hand?

100

Trade along the ________ brought China in contact with other civilizations, and introduced new products such as cucumbers and grapes.

What is Silk Road?

100

The first civilizations arose along the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers in what is called

What is Mesopotamia?

200

Had __________ land and deep valleys with rugged ___________ (hills). 


What is mountains and highlands 

200

The male head of a family or tribe.

What is Patriarch?

200

What city had central temples called ziggurats.

What is Mesopotamia?

200

Under the Hans, _______ became the official belief system of China.

What is Confucianism?

200

Where is Mesopotamia modern day located in

What is Iraq?

300

_________ patrolled the seas and ______ the kingdom from invaders.

What is Ships and protected

300

Was an arena used for chariot racing throughout the Byzantine period.

What is the Hippodrome?

300

Pharaohs ordered people to build elaborate tombs.

What is Ancient Egypt? 

300

Han scientists wrote textbooks on subjects ranging from _______,_________, and __________.

What is zoology to botany and chemistry?

300

Cuneiform had how many symbols?

What is 600?

400

What did the Minoan civilization trade? 

What is food, pottery, and artisan crafts.

400

a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.

What is Mosaics?

400

If he has destroyed the eye of a commoner or broken the bone of a commoner, 

What is he shall pay one mina of silver.

400

Han scientist also invented the process to make _______ from wood pulp.

What is paper?

400

Cuneiform was created by the

Who is Sumerians?

500

Troy was a real place, but the story of the

war is a mixture of ______ and _______. 

What is myths and legends.

500

An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical.

What is Epicureanism?

500

Artisans made various goods, which traders exchanged with other peoples.

What is Indus Valley?

500

They invented the rudder for use on ships, and created other such useful devices as the ____________ and ____________. 

What is fishing reel and the wheelbarrow?

500

City-states worshiped in

What is a Ziggurat? 

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