Ancient Mesopotamia
A wedge-shaped instrument for writing.
What was a stylus?
A ruler in Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
Storytellers.
Who were bards?
A military commander exercising civil power by force; usually in a limited area.
What was a warlord?
A person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
Who were gladiators?
An extra amount of something.
What is a surplus?
Took dead bodies and turned them into mummies.
Who were embalmers?
Enslaved people in Ancient Sparta.
Who were Helots?
A person that someone was descended from.
What is an ancestor?
A curved ceiling made of arches.
What is a vault?
Developed a twelve-month calendar based on lunar cycles.
Who were the Sumerians?
A government official.
What is a bureaucrat?
Birth place of philosophy.
What was Athens?
A symbol in a writing system based on pictures.
What is a pictograph?
Means "all gods."
What was the pantheon?
Two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
To be present continuously or have a home in a particular place.
What is reside?
Had more freedom in other city-states.
Who were women in Sparta?
Inserting fine needles through the skin at specific points to treat disease or relieve pain.
What is acupuncture?
A volcano that erupted near the town of Pompeii.
What was Mt. Vesuvius?
Merchants, farmers, fishers, and artisans.
What was apart of the middle class?
What Egyptians called their land; which also means "Black Land."
What is Kemet?
Spread Greek culture throughout his empire.
Who was Alexander the Great?
A member of an upper class of society; usually made up of hereditary nobility.
What is an aristocrat?
About 5,000 animals were slaughtered here each day.
What was the Colosseum?