Mesopotamia
Egypt
India and China
Greece
Rome
100

This is another name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its rich soil.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

100

Name given to the sacred Egyptian writing script

What is hieroglyphics?

100

Mountain range that lies on the northern border of India

What is the Himalayas?

100
According to ancient beliefs, on which mountain did the gods live?
Mount Olympus.
100

According to legend, which two brothers are said to have founded Rome?

Romulus and Remus.

200

Largest and most important structure in a Sumerian city.

What is a ziggurat?

200

People whose job was to write and keep records

What are scribes?

200

The Chinese dynasty that was famous for expensive vases and for building the Great Wall of China

What is the Ming?

200
In this city-state, women could own property. (double points if you can tell me why!)
Sparta; because women needed to own land in case their husbands were killed in battle.
200

Which ruler was called "the exalted one," or "a person of great rank and authority?"

Cesar Augustus (Octavian).

300

names of the 2 main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

300

Reason that the ancient Egyptians mummified the elite

What is to preserve the body for a physical afterlife?

300

The largest of the ancient civilizations with 1500 sites

What is the Indus Valley Civilization?

300
How are the Iliad and the Odyssey similiar?
They are both epic poems.
300
Name one man-made Roman invention that aided Roman trade.
Roadways, common currency.
400

The process by which Mesopotamians brought water from rivers to their fields is called ________.

What is irrigation?

400

Creature Egyptians believed would eat the heart of anyone whose heart was heavier than Ma'at's feather of truth

What is Ammit the beast, devourer of souls?

400
This is the name given to a person who illegally seizes (takes) power.
tyrant.
400
Name three specific reasons for the decline in Rome's empire.
food shortage; Marcus Aurelius's death; empire too big to feed everyone; personal armies; civil war/splitting of empire; inconsistent rule, etc.
500

Number of laws contained in Hammurabi's code of law

What is 282?

500

How Queen Hatshepsut primarily expanded Egyptian power and influence

What is through expeditions and trade?

500
Name three major religions in ancient China.
Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism.
500
On which two seas did the Greeks primarily trade?
The Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
500
This ruler killed his Christian citizens, while this one made their faith legal.
Nero; Constantine.
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