Ancient China
What was the valley called where the Ancient Chinese lived?
The Yellow River Valley
What were the Phoenicians good at?
Sailing and glass-blowing
Ashurbanipal lived in what city?
Ninevah
The Minoans on the island of Crete did what dangerous sport?
Bull-jumping
What happened to the Barbarians who lived in Greece?
They became civilized.
What crop did the ancient farmers of China grow?
Rice
What did the Phoenicians make their purple dye from?
Snails
library
What is a navy?
An army that fights on water
What was the name of the one- eyed monster who wanted to kill Odysseus and his men?
Cyclops
The Chinese used a special kind of writing called pictograms. In pictograms, what do the words look like?
pictures
What is a colony?
A little settlement of people
What did the Assyrians do to Babylon when they conquered it?
They flooded it.
Where did the Minotaur live?
under the palace, in a maze
Mount Olympus
What did LeiZu discover?
The silkworm and how to make silk.
What little Phoenician colony grew into a big city?
C
Carthage
What is the name of Babylon's most famous king?
(Hint: he was crazy!)
Nebuchadnezzar
What color sail was Theseus supposed to put on his ship when he sailed back home?
White
What god was honored by the first Olympic games?
Zeus, the king of the gods
What is a dynasty?
A family that rules one country for years and years.
Dido the queen sailed off to start a new colony (that would later become Carthage). She asked the man who owned the land if he would sell her as much land that she could cover with the skin of a ________.
Bull hide
Nebuchadnezzar's wife was sad and wanted to go home to Persia. What did Nebuchadnezzar build for her to make her happy?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What forced the Minoans to leave the island of Crete?
A volcano that erupted on a nearby island
an olive wreath