Ancient Mesopotamia
282 brief and strict laws.
What is Hammurabi's code?
Runs South to North.
What is the Nile river?
Socrates taught this person.
Who is Plato?
Considered attractive to men.
What are small feet?
Large groups of Roman soldiers.
What are legions?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates River.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Great stone tomb built for Egyptian pharaohs.
What is a pyramid?
A Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
The route that connected China to Greece and Rome for trade.
What is the Silk Road?
Ordinary citizens in ancient Rome.
Who are the Plebeians?
The first group of people to live in Mesopotamia.
Who were the Sumerians?
A writing system where pictures stand for words.
What are hieroglyphics?
A group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland.
What is a colony?
The dynasty that started the Great Wall of China.
What is the Qin dynasty?
Devoted themselves to the study of the arts.
Who are Etruscans?
Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia.
What are the 5 city-states?
Protected the Nile river on the East and West from invaders.
What are the vast deserts?
The grandest building on the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
The dynasty that used bronze tools and jade bowls.
What is the Shang dynasty?
By examining these items, the Greeks believed that they can tell the future.
What are lamb bones?
Rhymed to help people remember them.
What are the twelve tables?
How archeologists learned to read hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Simple geometric designs on them.
What is the early Greek pottery style? (Doric)
The belief that the Chinese King's right to rule came from the gods.
What is the Mandate of heaven?
After they were born, they were left beside the Tiber river.
Who is Romulus and Remus?