The Fertile Crescent
The rivers that the Sumerians depended on.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Life after death.
What is an afterlife?
Games held every 4 years to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympics?
A ruler with absolute authority.
What is a dictator?
A light lavender lizard with dark purple spots. Can also be a bright orange.
What is a leopard gecko?
Carts drawn by horses and used to carry soldiers into battle.
What is a chariot?
A ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
A collection of myths, or traditional stories, handed down from generation to generation.
What is mythology?
Descendants of an earlier people who spoke a non-Italic language.
What are the Etruscans?
A species of gecko native to southern New Caledonia.
What is a crested gecko?
An ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
The sun god, one of the most important gods in ancient Egypt.
A group of about 200 islands.
What are the Cyclades?
Wealthy descendants of Rome's earliest settlers.
What are patricians?
The largest living species of gecko and a member of the family Diplodactylidae.
What is a leachie gecko?
The first ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
Who is Sargon the Great?
A region with a united group of people and a single government.
What is a nation-state?
A long poem that tells about important events in the life of a hero or heroes.
What is an epic?
The man who became Rome's new leader after Julius Caesar's death.
Who is Marcus Antonius?
One of the largest living gecko species. They are found in south and southeast Asia.
What is a tokay gecko?
Sixth Amorite king of Babylon and is best known for having issued his own code.
Who is Hammurabi?
What is a vizier?
A small group of leaders from wealthy landowning families who inherit the right to rule.
What is a aristocracy?
A Roman leader that became dictator in 82 B.C.
Who is Sulla?
A species of gecko found in Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands and coastal areas of Australia.
What is a mourning gecko?