Ancient Mesopotamia
This is a type of architecture characteristic to Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
This river was central to Ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This early city and civilization center mysteriously disappeared in Ancient India.
What was Mohenjo-Daro?
The early pre-Greek civilization that flourished on the island of Crete.
Who were the Minoans?
This was the center of political life in Ancient Rome.
What is the forum?
These are the two rivers central to the Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This "pharaoh" adopted the dress and image of a male so she could be accepted as a ruler of Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
This was the founder of Buddhism.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
The city-state that was characterized by a love of learning, architecture and is credited with creating democracy.
What is Athens?
These are two men elected in Ancient Rome to oversee the military and all government functions.
Who were the consuls?
The meaning of the word "Mesopotamia".
What is the "Land Between Two Rivers"?
This ruler built the Great Pyramid.
Who was Khufu?
This means "enlightenment" in Buddhism.
What is nirvana?
The military formation used in ancient Greece that set up 16 x 16 foot soldiers and armed them with long spears.
What is a phalanx?
This was the first emperor of Rome.
Who was Augustus Caesar?
Who was Sargon of Akkad?
This pharaoh unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who was Menes?
The grandson of Chandragupta, a notable ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
Who was Ashoka?
This type of government means rule by more than one person.
What is an oligarchy?
These were a series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage.
What were the Punic Wars?
This was the first written code of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This was used as a writing surface in Ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
The social caste system of Ancient India that is still used today in parts of India.
What is the caste system?
The war fought between the Delian League of Athens and the Spartans.
What was the Peloponnesian War.
This was the emperor responsible for making Christianity the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
Who was Constantine?