Mighty Mesopotamia
The Sumerians found ways to control the rivers.
What is a dike or a dam made of earth?
The river that everyone in Egypt depended on.
What is the Nile River?
A 27-year war between Athens and Sparta.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Roman Peace
Lasted over 200 years
Under Augustus’ rule
Pax Romana
The first name of Mrs. Smith.
Who is Betsy?
The type of government that the Sumerians had.
What is a monarchy?
The Egyptian calendar had three seasons.
What are Inundation, Emergence, and Harvest?
A "Greek-like" period during Alexander’s rule and the centuries following it.
What was the Hellenistic Age?
A count of a countries people (for population count and/or other things).
What is a census?
The name of Mrs. Smith's dog.
Who is Cleo?
The wedge shaped writing that was used in ancient Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
The sun god who was among the most important of the gods in ancient Egypt.
Who is the sun god Re (ray), also known as Ra (rah)?
This culture developed on the island of Crete.
What is the Minoan culture?
Mediterranean Sea
Called it this because expansion of Roman lands
What is the Roman Lake?
The number of children Mrs. Smith has.
What is two?
The person who found Sargon.
What is a gardener?
The person who began the first Egyptian dynasty.
Who is Narmer?
A system of government where the people rule.
What is democracy?
They needed to be a strong government and one the people would accept.
What was the Roman Empire?
The correct amount of time that homework should not go over according to Mrs. Wilson.
What is two hours?
The reason he is remembered as Sargon the Great.
Why did the empire last 200 hundred years after his death?
It looked somewhat like the Sumerian ziggurat.
What was the first pyramid?
A period when a civilization is at its best in art, literature, science, and architecture.
What is a "Golden Age"?
Made up of citizens who owned land.
What was the Roman army?
The age of Mrs. Wilson's granddaughter.
Who is under one year old?