Prehistory
The time period before humans developed writing systems
What is pre-history?
The first set of laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This river flows through Egypt and helped ancient Egyptian civilization grow by providing water, fertile soil, and transportation.
What is the Nile River?
These two belief systems differ because one involves believing in many gods, while the other involves believing in only one god.
What is the difference between polytheism and monotheism?
This type of government came before the Roman Empire and allowed citizens to elect representatives to help govern.
What is the Roman Republic?
To continually move
What does nomadic mean?
An independent city and the surrounding land that had its own ruler, government, laws, and army.
What is a city-state?
This was the title of the ruler of Ancient Egypt, who was considered both a political leader and a religious leader.
What is a Pharaoh?
In Greek mythology, this god ruled the sea and was often shown carrying a trident.
Who is Poseidon?
Italy, where Ancient Rome developed, is located on this type of landform—an area of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The invention made people go from hunter gatherer to living in a city
What is agriculture?
Name a city state from Mesopotamia.
Ur Uruk Lagash Kish
Tutankhamun, Ramses II, and Hatshepsut are examples of this type of Ancient Egyptian leader.
"What is a Pharaoh?"
This form of government, developed in Ancient Greece—especially Athens—allowed citizens to participate in making decisions and voting on laws.
What is democracy?
This Roman leader was assassinated by a group of senators, including his friend Brutus, on the Ides of March in 44 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The continent that the human species started on.
What is Africa?
Two rivers in Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This female pharaoh of Ancient Egypt ruled successfully during the 18th Dynasty, but after her death, many of her statues and records were destroyed or altered, likely in an attempt to remove her from history.
Who is Hatshepsut? Who is Cleopatra?
These were two important city-states in Ancient Greece—one known for its strong military focus and the other known for democracy and learning.
What is Sparta and Athens?
These Roman structures carried water long distances into cities and towns.
What are aqueducts?
3 Types of Homonids (different types of human)?
What are Neanderthals What are Cro-magnons? What are Homoerectus?
What did the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers do every year?
What is flooding?
This ruler of Ancient Egypt is often considered the last active pharaoh of Egypt before Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. She was famous for her political alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
This Ancient Greek leader and king of Macedonia created one of the largest empires of the ancient world and is often said to have conquered much of the “known world.”
Who is Alexander the Great?
This emperor moved the Roman capital east to Constantinople, helping begin the division between Eastern and Western Rome.
Who is Constantine?