Unit 1: Ancient Civilizations
These two rivers provided water and fertile soil for the civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
This Roman emperor was known for his brutality, especially against Christians.
Who was Nero?
What part of the Bible do Jews follow?
What is the Old Testament?
These four Presidents are on Mount Rushmore.
Who are Lincoln, Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jefferson?
This was the writing system used in Ancient Egypt that used pictures to represent words.
What was Hieroglyphics?
This Roman leader was stabbed 23 times. He was loved by the people but hated and feared by the senators because they thought he was getting too much power.
Who was Julius Caesar?
This man was known as the main spreader of Christianity in the New Testament.
Who was Paul?
This animal has the highest blood pressure.
What is a Giraffe?
This religion was spread greatly through Ancient India and on the Silk Road.
What is Buddhism?
This Greek leader never lost a battle and for a time united Greece, Persia, and much of the Middle East under Greek rule.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This is the term to describe being reborn over and over again.
What is Reincarnation?
This fast food chain has the most locations around the world.
What is Subway?
Who was Hammurabi?
These two Greek city-states were constantly feuding and even went to war against one another.
Who were Athens and Sparta?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
What is pepperoni?
This Ancient Chinese concept was practiced to exercise the importance of family to the people.
What was putting the last name before their first?
This Greek philosopher was executed by the Greeks for spreading false doctrine to the children of Greece?
Who was Socrates?
This is the man who convicted Jesus to die.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
Indiana Jones is famously very scared of this animal.
What are snakes?