Vocabulary
religion
Ancient Greece & Rome
Ancient Egypt & China
Mesopotamia
100
Curved region with rich soil in the middle east
fertile crescent
100
What does Polytheistic mean?
belief in many gods
100
Ancient Greece was the birthplace for what form of goverment?
Direct Democracy
100
The process to prepare their dead for the afterlife in ancient Egypt
mummification
100
If a son has struck his father, they shall cut off his hand. • If a seignior has destroyed the eye of a member of the aristocracy, they shall destroy his eye. • If he has broken another seignior’s bone, they shall break his bone.. whose code is this?
Hammurabi's' Code
200
Term for people who go from place to place; do not have a permanent home
nomad
200
Islam
200
Which sporting events were created by the Greeks?
Olympics and marathon
200
This river provided fertile soil for crops and served as a transportation route for Egypt
Nile River
200
Which of the following was NOT an invention of the Mesopotamians? Wheel, plow, horse drawn buggy, or writing?
Horse drawn buggy
300
A Professional Writer
scribe
300
Belief in one god
Monotheistic
300
Roman religion copies the Gods of which other people?
Greeks
300
The Great Wall of China stands as an accomplishment of which dynasty?
Qin
300
A sharpened piece of reed, called a stylus, used on clay tablets was used to create these...
cuneiform
400
Independent state with government and traditions.
city state
400
Judaism
400
The search for wisdom
philosophy
400
how did the ancient Chinese make Contact with other cultures?
silk road
400
Besides the ruler, who had the highest position in the social structure of Mesopotamia?
Priest
500
Exchange of goods without money
barter
500
Put the 3 monotheistic religions in order of Oldest to Newest.
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
500
Rome is located in which modern country?
Italy
500
In China the Huang (Yellow) river is referred to as what?
The Sorrow
500
Why were ziggurats important to the Sumerians?
they were temples and places of protection