Ancient Civilizations
This civilization is centered around Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The river that runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile river?
Major turning point in history, a battle between the Greeks and Persians.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
200 year period of peace in Rome.
What is Pax Romana?
He became the youngest pharaoh when he inherited the throne at just 9 years old.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
Often credited as the first set of written laws and characterized by their harsh nature.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Type of religion in which there is only one god worshiped.
What is monotheism?
This city-state is characterized as militaristic and strong.
What is Sparta?
Influential dictator in Rome, killed on the senate floor on the Ides of March.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This Macedonian Greek speaker would go on to conquer the Persian Empire before dying of typhoid fever in Babylon.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The type of religion practiced in most of the early civilizations with more than one god.
Iconic architectural and artistic monuments in Egypt.
What are the Pyramids?
Another word used for the city state of Athens in Greece.
What is a Polis?
The laws established in Rome posted outside the Forum.
This Greek philosopher encourages students to think for themselves and was ultimately killed for it.
Who is Socrates?
Something that ancient civilizations built to control the seasonal flooding.
What are dams?
One of the largest empires the world had ever seen.
What is the Persian Empire?
Both Athens and Sparta are classified as this type of independent governments.
What is a city-state?
First emperor of the Roman Empire, the adopted son of Julius Caesar.
Who is Octavian or Augustus?
He founded the Persian Empire and allowed religious freedom.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The religion in the Persian Empire.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The first civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumeria?
Athens is city-state known for being the birthplace of many famous philosopher, name the 3 most influential.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Three of the innovations occurring during Pax Romana.
What are aqueducts, roads, and public baths?
This philosopher is often called the "father of medicine" and is credited with the Hippocratic oath.
Who is Hypocrites?