Egypt
A ruler of ancient Egypt.
Pharoah
A set of stories about the gods, goddesses, heroes, and rituals of ancient Greece.
Greek Mythology
One of the first phonetic alphabets, where each symbol signified a sound instead of a word. Heavily influenced the Greek alphabet as well as many modern phonetic alphabets that people use today.
Phoenician Alphabet
1. Government 2. Writing/Record Keeping 3. Religion 4. Technology 5. Social Hierarchy 6. Cities.
Six Traits of Civilizations
Ambitious Roman general who wanted to become emperor/dictator for life. He was assassinated by a group of Roman senators who feared his power in 44 B.C.
Julius Caesar
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority known as an emperor or empress.
Empire
Scrolls that served as a guide for the afterlife in ancient Egypt.
Book of the Dead
A powerful city-state in ancient Greece that was a leader in arts, sciences, and philosophy. Also the city that created democracy.
Athens
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
Republic
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas, words and sounds.
Hieroglyphics
The first emperor of Rome, he came to power in 27 BC, and led Rome into an age of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana.
Augustus Caesar (Octavian)
A political system in which all citizens had equal political rights, freedoms of speech, and the opportunity to participate in political discussion.
Democracy
The world's longest river, which flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea. Ancient Egypt developed around the Nile River.
Nile River
Ancient Macedonian ruler who established the largest empire in history (at the time), and spread Greek culture to the Middle East and Asia.
Alexander the Great
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent country. Each had its own laws, money, army, and patron gods/goddesses.
City-state