Ancient Mesopotamia
A state consisting of a sovereign city.
What is a city-stated?
Paper like material.
What is papyrus?
A gathering place - market place in ancient Greece.
What is the Agora?
A picture that represents a word or idea.
What is a pictograph?
To communicate or connect.
What is contact?
A rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound.
What is a ziggurat?
A writing system using pictures.
What is Hieroglyphics?
An absolute ruler unrestrained by law.
Who is tyrant?
A religious practice of honoring the spirits of the dead.
what is Ancestor worship?
To defend from trouble or harm.
What is protect?
People having the same social, economic, or educational status.
What is a social class?
A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family.
What is a Dynasty?
A government in witch a small group has control.
What is a oligarchy?
A belief system based on the ideas of the Chinese thinker Confucius.
What is Confucianism?
In Ancient Rome, a person who fought people or animals for public entertainment.
Who are Gladiators?
An Asian river, a tributary of Euphrates river.
What is the Tigris river?
A body that is embalmed, dried, and wrapped for burial.
What are mummys
A group of armed foot soldiers in Ancient Greece arranged close together in rows.
Who are Phalanx's?
Animal bone or shell carved with written characters that was used to predict the future in ancient china.
What are oracle bones?
To be lawfully in charge of.
What is administer?
Babylonian king who codified the laws of sumer and Mesopotamia.
How is Hammurabi?
Takes one's right or possession.
What does taking over mean?
A body of land with water on three sides.
What is the Peninsula?
philosophy of following the dao, that is, the natural ways of the universe.
What is Daoism?
Basic beliefs, concepts and attitudes.
What is Philosophy?