These were the two most powerful ancient Greek city-states.
What are Athens and Sparta?
100
Ancient Rome was located in this modern-day country.
What is Italy?
100
The Inca Empire was located on which continent?
What is South America?
100
The Chinese built this over many centuries to protect them from nomadic invaders.
What is the Great Wall?
200
The Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and justice.
Who is Athena?
200
Women had the most freedom in this ancient Greek city-state where they were allowed to run a business, own property, and participate in sports.
What is Sparta?
200
This was the name of the class of average everyday folks in ancient Rome. Most Romans were in this social class.
What are plebians?
200
The Inca had a lot of this precious metal which the Spanish wanted very badly.
What is gold?
200
China got very wealthy from trade in this rare and valuable cloth produced from the cocoon of an insect.
What is silk?
300
The Egyptian god of chaos.
Who is Set?
300
The ongoing wars between Athens and Sparta were called this.
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
300
These were the wealthy upper class citizens of Ancient Rome.
What are patricians?
300
The Incas used these animals for meat, transportation, and sometimes food.
What are llamas and alpacas?
300
The system of trade routes along which goods were traded from Asia to Europe in the 1200s and beyond was called this.
What is The Silk Road?
400
The ancient Greek messenger god.
Who is Hermes?
400
The ancient Greeks regularly fought this powerful empire with a very large army. They held them off at the battle of Thermopylae and defeated them at the battle of Salamis.
What is Persia?
400
Name the 3 branches of the Roman Republic government.
What are the Senate, the Assembly, and the Consuls?
400
The Inca king or leader was called this.
What is Sapa Inca?
400
This very valuable green stone was carved and sold in Ancient China.
What is jade?
500
The Egyptian god of embalming and the dead.
Who is Anubis?
500
This famous Macedonian general conquered most of the known world before he was 30.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
Name three problems that led to the downfall of the western Roman Empire
Answers will vary but could include:
money problems, bad leadership, over-expansion, Barbarian invasions, disease and famine
500
This Spanish explorer conquered the Incas in the 1500s.
Who is Pizarro?
500
Name the Chinese emperor who had the Terra Cotta Army constructed for his tomb.