Mesopotamia
This is another name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Continent Egypt is located on.
What is Africa?
Name of river in ancient China named after a color.
What is the Yellow River?
Marketplace is ancient Greece.
What was the agora?
Continent which Rome is on.
What is Europe?
This was the largest and most important structure in a Mesopotamian city used to worship the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
People whose job was to write and keep records were called ______.
Who were the scribes?
Built to keep the invaders from the North out.
What is the Great Wall of China?
In this city-state, women could own property.
What was Sparta?
Years a Roman citizen had to serve in the army.
What was 10 years?
These are the names of the two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Why did ancient Egyptians preserve bodies of the dead?
What was to ensure they went to the afterlife?
Priests read the cracks in these to answer people's questions about their future.
What were oracle bones?
Place where it was believed their gods lived.
What was Mount Olympus?
Roman invention that helped the Roman army and was used for getting goods where they needed to be for trade.
What were roads?
The process by which Mesopotamians brought water from rivers to their fields is called ________.
What is irrigation?
If a Egyptian person could not afford to be mummified, they were buried in the _________ so their body would be preserved for the afterlife.
What was the desert?
Instead of gods, they worshiped...
What was their ancestors?
Type of government in the city-state of Athens.
What was direct democracy?
A peninsula is _____________.
What is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
According to our studies, this is the importance of Hammurabi's Code of Laws.
What was the first written code of law?
Hatshepsut become regent and acted as a pharaoh because...
What was the pharaoh, her stepson, was too young to rule?
Life-like clay soldiers built to protect the emperor's tomb.
What were terracotta soldiers?
Reason there were so many city-states in Greece.
What was because of the isolation by the mountains or having many islands?
Explain why Christians were no longer killed in the colosseum.
What was the ruler of Rome became a Christian?