Ancient Mesopotamia
People who move around instead of staying in one place.
What is a Nomad?
A Pharaoh's tomb.
What is a pyramid?
This was the most desired feature.
What is Pail Skin?
Owes part of its existence to the silk road.
What is The Great Wall of China?
This modern nation was once under the control of the Roman Empire.
What is Greece?
Mixture of copper and tin.
What is Bronze made out of?
A reed plant that grows wild along the Nile River.
What is Papyrus?
Was the style of column on the Parthenon.
What is the Doric column?
The route that connected China to Greece and Rome, allowing goods and knowledge to spread.
What was the Silk Road?
A language based on Latin.
What is a "romance language?"
Is a well preserved Babylonian law code.
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
Fabric made from flax fibers.
What is linen?
The Greek word for city-state.
What is a polis?
The medical practice of sticking pins in the body to relieve pain or cure illnesses.
What is acupuncture?
Was most similar to a football stadium.
What is the Colosseum?
Flat land by a river.
What is a Floodplain?
Ruler who tried to destroy all records of the previous pharaoh.
Who is Thutmose lll?
Was a Greek sculptor.
Who is Phidias?
The Chinese did not raise these for food.
What is a cow?
One to three levels of joining arches through which water was channeled.
What is an Aqueduct?
A time period when people adapted agriculture, or farming, and no longer had to worry about wandering around to find food.
What was the Neolithic Era?
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins.
What is a Shadoof?
The word means "walled city."
What does Acropolis means?
Was considered a sign of beauty.
What is small feet?
This was how some young men would refuse to serve in the army.
What was cutting off their thumbs?