Ancient Mesopotamia
A name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Style of writing found on ancient Egyptian artifacts
What is Hieroglyphics?
A mountain did the gods lived on.
What is mount Olympus?
A series of rulers from the same family.
What is a Dynasty?
two brothers are said to have founded Rome
Who is Romulus and Remus?
Names of the two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
A persons job was to write and keep records.
What is a scribe?
Two famous epics.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism.
What are the 3 main religions?
A natural resource that was supplied to many homes of the rich
What is water?
Mesopotamians brought water from rivers to their fields
What is irrigation?
ruled from about the age of 9 to 19.
Who is King Tut?
A name given to a person who illegally seizes power.
What is a Tyrant?
The dynasty that overthrew the Qin
What is Han?
The the common folk of Rome also a farmer, merchant or artisan.
What is a plebeian?
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
A mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river
What is Silt?
Greek goddess of wisdom
Who is Athena?
Qin Shi Huang Di.
Who built the Terracotta Warriors ?
a geographical feature that is defined as a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
What is a peninsula.
a major event that allowed civilizations to arise in 8000 BCE
What is agriculture?
Immediately above the slaves on the ancient Egyptian social pyramid
What are farmers?
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state
What is the Acropolis?
Two philosophers who taught people a better way to live life
What is Confucius and Lao-Tzu?
A set of written laws created by the Roman Republic
What are the Twelve Tables?