The earliest form of writing in the ancient world.
Cuneiform
This is an expression of human imagination and creativity.
Art
The reason people create inventions and achievements.
To meet people's wants and needs
This is the art and technique of designing a building.
Architecture
This is the basic equipment and structures used to make a civilization work. Like roads and bridges.
Infrastructure
The reason Mesopotamians created cuneiform writing
Recording Supplies of Food
What cultural values are expressed through this sculpture?
Sport, Athletics, Beauty
This is a solution to farming in a hilly and mountainous region.
Terrace Farming
This civilization used pyramids solely for the preservation of dead bodies and treasures. Their workers built traps and secret passages to trick grave robbers.
Egypt
This type of infrastructure is built to protect people and cities from invasion and outside attacks.
Walls
The material Mesopotamian scribes used to write on.
Clay Tablets
What cultural values are expressed through this image?
War, Heroism, Teamwork
This invention produces an explosive result. It was invented by Chinese scientists in 300 AD and is used in rockets and too propel cannon balls.
Gunpowder
This structure was used by Mesopotamians to worship their gods and store food
Ziggurat
This type of infrastructure is used to cross bodies of water like rivers.
Bridges
These are examples of cultural values
Freedom, Independence, Equality, Peace, Family, etc...
What cultural values are expressed in this image?
Nature, Beauty
This invention was created to allow for an easier method of writing. Before this, civilizations would carve on tablets or use papyrus.
Paper
This structure was used by Greeks to support their buildings, because they lived uneven land.
Columns
This type of infrastructure ensures civilizations have a clean supply of water.
Aqueducts and Sewers
What cultural values is this passage expressing?
I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land...
Love of Nature
What cultural values are expressed in this image?
Justice, Judgement, Religion, Death
This is a reason societies continue to invent new technology and achievements.
To meet people's wants and needs
To help people get resources more easily and feed and provide for growing populations
To make it easier to communicate with people long distance
To navigate more accurate movement across the world
This building material was created by the Romans because it is stronger than bricks and stone.
Concrete
Roads were built out of concrete by this civilization
Rome/Roman Empire