Mesopotamia
This weather event rarely happened in Mesopotamia.
What is rain?
This river flows through the middle of Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The Hittites were given this religious nickname.
Who are the "People of a Thousand Gods"?
Most Greeks used this to travel, despite it being quite dangerous
What is the Aegean Sea/Ocean/Sea?
This man started the Persian Empire.
Who is King Cyrus the Great?
A ziggurat was a temple where the Mesopotamians did this.
What is sacrificed (humans)?
This hostile environment was nicknamed the "Red Land" by the Egyptians
What is the (Sahara) Desert?
Anatolia was covered in these large land features.
What are mountains?
These are the names of the two major groups of Bronze Age Greeks.
Who are the Minoans and Mycenaeans?
These two family members were killed by the King Cambyses.
Who are Cambyses' brother and sister?
Mesopotamians invented this, called cuneiform, by the Greeks who saw it
What is writing?
The leader (theocrat) of Egypt was called this.
What is a Pharaoh?
Before migrating into Anatolia, the Hittites lived as these people.
What are Nomads?
As God of the Sea, Earthquakes, and Horses, this god was incredibly important to the Mycenaeans.
Who is Poseidon?
After Cambyses death, this man took over as King of Persia. (be extremely specific)
Who is Smerdis the Magus?
King Hammurabi built large walls around this famous city.
What is Babylon?
Similar to a coffin, this was used to store a mummified body. They were often decorated to look like the dead person inside.
What is a Sarcophagus?
The Hittites brought these two technologies into Anatolia.
What are Horses and Iron?
The Minoans found a reliable source of human sacrifices here.
What is mainland Greece?
Who are the Mycenaeans?
What is through kidnapping?
This impressive man gave King Cambyses a bow as a gift.
Who is the King of Ethiopia?
These are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
During this Kingdom, Egypt was conquered by invaders called the Hyksos.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The Hittites frequently fought nomads from the North, who went by this name.
Who are the Kaska?
It wasn't the volcano, but the following disaster that did so much damage to the Minoan Greeks
What is a Tsunami?
As a prisoner, he famously explained that he regretted starting a war stating, "In peace, sons bury their fathers, in war, fathers bury their sons."
Who is King Croesus?