Ancient Mesopotamia
The main building material of the Mesopotamians.
What is sun-dried brick?
The life after death.
What is the Afterlife?
Most elaborate style of Greek column.
What were Corinthian columns?
A succession of rulers from a single family.
What is a dynasty?
The people who founded Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
Era when glaciers covered large parts of Earth.
What is the Ice Age?
Title used by the rulers of Ancient Egypt.
What is pharaoh?
The place that the Greek gods lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
River that flows from the Tibetan Highlands to the Yellow Sea; also called the Yellow River.
What is the Huang He river?
Slaves forced to fight to the death to entertain Roman crowds.
Who were the gladiators?
First group of people to live in Mesopotmia.
Who were the Sumerians?
The god of cemeteries and embalming.
Who was Anubis?
Lovers of wisdom.
Who were the philosophers?
Is close to the length of the Great Wall of China.
What is the border between the U.S. and Canada?
Killed because s/he was getting too powerful.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Also known as the "Cradle of Civilization".
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The first woman pharaoh.
Who was Hatshepsut?
Slaves that were prisoners of war.
Who were the helots?
The Chinese philosopher that thought that livng in harmony with nature was best.
Who was Lao-tzu?
Stopped the persecution of the Christians.
Who was Constatine?
Number that the Sumerians based their numbering system on.
What is the number 60?
Workers that took the dead bodies and turned them into mummies.
Who were the Embalmers?
Greeks believed that they could tell the future by examining this.
What are the intestines of dead birds?
The weather report was given by doing this.
What is reading animal bones?
Some believe that the practice of having people fight to the death actually began here.
What are funerals?