Ancient Mesopotamia
This ancient civilization was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Mesopotamia
This long river was the center of life for the ancient Egyptians
Nile River
This person is considered the father of the Hebrew people.
Abraham
This type of government, meaning "rule by the people," was invented in Athens.
democracy
What was the title for the leader of the Roman Empire?
Emperor
This type of writing used wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
cuneiform
These were the tombs built for pharaohs, like the Great Pyramid of Giza.
This man led his people out of slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments.
Moses
He was a famous Greek philosopher who taught using questions.
Socrates
This famous Roman general was assassinated by senators on the Ides of March.
Julius Caesar
This famous king of Babylon created one of the world's first written sets of laws.
Hammurabi
This discovery helped scholars finally translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
What is the name of the holy book of Judaism?
Torah
This major war was fought between Athens and Sparta.
Peloponnesian War
What were the long stone channels built by the Romans to carry water to their cities?
aqueducts
This structure was a large, pyramid-like temple built in the center of Mesopotamian cities.
ziggurat
What was the process of preserving a dead body to prepare it for the afterlife called?
mummification
This king built the first great temple in Jerusalem.
This legendary warrior-king of Macedonia conquered a vast empire from Greece to India.
Alexander the Great
This Roman structure was an arena for gladiator contests and public spectacles.
Colosseum
What was the name of the epic poem about a hero-king who searched for eternal life?
Gilgamesh
This famous female pharaoh ruled with her stepson and expanded trade.
Hatshepsut
What is the term for the spreading of Jewish people outside of their homeland?
Diaspora
What were the two epic poems written by Homer about the Trojan War?
Iliad and the Odyssey
What was the 200-year period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire called?
Pax Romana