Ancient Advancements
The time that replaced The Bronze Age and its resources and created the new strongest weapons and tools.
What is the Iron Age?
The ancient Egyptians believed their souls would go here when they died.
What is the Afterlife?
The way Assyrians rose to power and success.
What is conquering land?
The river allowed for agriculture and trade to flourish in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The definition of a Pharaoh?
What is an Egyptian King or Queen.
An oral or written narration of the achievements and sometimes the failures of heroes that embodies peoples' ideas about themselves.
What is an Epic Poem?
When a pharaoh dies they become this in the afterlife.
What is a god or goddess?
In the ancient world, the languages that spread across the world that allowed for new people with new customs and beliefs to thrive.
What are Indo-European Languages?
Where agriculture first developed.
Where is Mesopotamia? (otherwise known as the fertile crescent.)
The first female pharaoh of the new kingdom.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Two inventions that revolutionized warfare during the bronze age.
What is the composite bow and horse-drawn chariots?
The Hebrew god that is the basis for the enduring religious traditions of Judaism.
Who is Yahweh?
Aspects of ancient civilizations that helped maintain order. *Choose two*
What are taxation, laws, divisions of labor, social and gender hierarchies?
The rivers run that through the fertile crescent and are the reason for its name.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The person who created a proclamation that followed the term, "An eye for an eye" to establish laws that regulated many aspect of life
Who is Hammurabi, King of Babylonia?
The ancient Egyptian form of writing that was most commonly written on papyrus.
What are Hieroglyphs?
The form of religion believed in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.
What is Polytheism, or the worship of many gods and goddesses?
A patriarchal hereditary dynasty.
What is power being handed down through the male line?
Where irrigation first developed.
Where is Ancient Egypt?
The person who made a name for the Persians by conquering Medes and the Mediterranean in order to control trade routes.
Who is Cyrus the Great, King of the Persians?
The Sumerian form of writing that describes the wedge-shaped marks made by a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
The religion that emphases to choose between good and evil.
*Hint* It influenced most modern day religions.
What is Zoroastrianism? (religion based on the teachings of a man named Zoroaster.)
In ancient civilizations, "The State" coerce people into following the law.
*Hint* They developed permanent armies for this purpose.
What is violence or threatening people with violence?
The people who popularized trade throughout the Mediterranean?
*Hint* They have their own alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The person who conquered multiple Sumerian cities with the world's first permanent army and encouraged trading networks.
Who is Sargon, King of Akkad?