Ancient Mesopotamia
People who move from place to place as a group to find food for themselves.
What is are Nomads?
Great stone tomb built for an Egyptain pharaoh.
What is a Pyramid.
A greek city-state.
What is a polis?
A military commander exercising civil power by force, usually in a limited area.
What is a warlord?
Could hold 50,000 people
What is the Colosseum?
Main building material.
What is brick?
A reed that grows wild along the Nile River.
What is a Papyrus?
A Persian religion based on the belief of one god.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Took 2,000 years to build.
What is the Great Wall of China?
To be lawfully in charge of.
What is a Administer?
Related to the earlist period of the Stone Age.
What is Paleolithic?
The last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Who was Cleopatra VII?
A goverment in which a small group has control.
What is a Oligarchy?
The belief that the Chinese king’s right to rule came from the gods.
What is Mandate of Heaven?
Time of peace
What is Pax Romana?
Related to the latest period of the Stone Age.
What is Neolithic Age?
Egyptians called their land, means "black land."
What is a Kemet?
A group of armed foot soldiers in Ancient Greece arranged close together in rows.
What is a Phalanx?
The first dynasty to be described in historical records.
What is the Xia dynasty?
To be lawfully in charge of. Three rulers who shared equal political power.
What is a Triumvirate?
A method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture.
What is Irrigation?
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water into storage basins.
What is a Shadoof?
A high-ranked government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders.
What is a Ehpor?
Last dynasty of China.
What is the Qin dynasty.
Large farming estates.
What is Latifundia?