ancient Greece
This ancient Greek city state is known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This city was the center of the Roman empire.
What is Rome?
This city became the capital of the byzantine empire under emperor Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
This caliph lead the Muslim community.
who is Muhammad?
This is an organ you need to think, live, and do actions with.
What is a brain.
This Greek philosopher was a student of Plato and later taught Alexander the great.
Who is Aristotle.
This structure is famous for gladiator fights and and public spectacles.
What is the Colosseum?
This emperor is famous for codifying Roman law in what became known as the corpus juris civilis.
Who is Justinian I?
This is the river that the Umayyad empire expanded to.
what is Indus river?
The only planet with life on it in our solar system.
What is earth?
These city states fought against Persia in famous battles such as marathon, Thermopylae, and salamis.
Who were the Greek city states?
This Roman general famously crossed the Rubicon river in 49 B.C.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This structure built under emperor Justinian I in Constantinople was originally a Christian cathedral.
what is the hagia Sophia?
This empire helped spread Islam across north Africa, the middle east, and into parts of Europe through trade and conquest.
what is the Umayyad empire?
This is any person that has power over and is in charge of the United States of America.
What is a president?
This poet is credited with writing the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This title meaning first citizen was used by Augustus to maintain the illusion of a republic while holding ultimate power.
what is Princeps?
This policy involved the banning and destruction of religious images in the byzantine empire.
What is iconoclasm?
This trade route helped spread Islam into east Africa and southeast Asia without military conquest.
What is the Indian ocean trade network?
This is something that plants need to make oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?
This form of government in ancient Athens allowed citizens to vote directly on laws and policies rather than electing representatives.
What is direct democracy.
This series of wars between Rome and Carthage included Hannibal famously crossing the Alps with elephants.
What are the Punic wars?
This church split Christianity into the Roman Catholic church in the west and the orthodox church in the east.
What is the great schism?
This policy used by Muslim rulers allowed conquered peoples to keep their religion in exchange for paying a special tax.
What is jizya tax?
The 6th planet in the solar system
what is Saturn?