Ancient Mesopotamia
The 2 rivers in Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the Euphrates.
What are the 2 main rivers in Mesopotamia?
Hieroglyphics.
What is a writing system made up of words and pictures?
Mount Olympus was home to the Gods.
What was Mount Olympus home to what?
The Yellow River.
What was the river that connected China?
These were in full view of the public.
Where were the public toilets?
There is fertile land around the rivers because the rivers always flooded.
Why is the land around the Euphrates fertile?
The Sun God.
Who was Ra?
A Greek City-State.
What is a polis?
It took about 2000 years to build.
How long did the Great Wall of China take to build?
Fast food and showers.
A typical theater had what?
The paper that the people use was made out of papyrus.
What was the paper that the Mesopotamians used made out of?
North Egypt was in the south.
Where was North Egypt?
Athens.
What was the great historical city of ancient Grece
Small feet were considered attractive.
What was considered attractive?
Wrestling was not allowed.
In the public bath, what was not allowed?
This means that they move around a lot.
What does nomadic mean?
This made people lose their teeth.
The bread in Egypt was so hard, what happened?
Parthedon.
What is the grandest building in the acropolis?
Cows were not raised in China.
What animal in China was not raised for food?
The woman wore bikinis.
In a public bath, what did women wear?
The worst thing that could happen after a Mesopotamian died was for them not to be buried.
What was the worst thing to happen after a Mesopotamian died?
If your child got sick, you would eat a mouse.
If you were a parent, what would you eat in order to help your child feel better?
This place was known for its vibrant art and culture.
Athens was known for what?
They named their children 3 months after they were born.
When did the Chinese name their children?
Cutting off their thumbs.
What got young men out of the army?