Ancient Mesopotamia
Farming area of rich land along rivers.
What was a plane?
Gave Egypt fettle land.
What was the Nile River?
Polis.
What is the Greek word for city-state?
Built to keep out invaders; built over a period of 2000 years; over 4500 miles at its longest.
What was the Great Wall of China?
A ancient professional fighter who specialized with particular weapons and Armour. They fought before the public in organised games held in large purpose-built arenas throughout the Roman Empire
What is a gladiator?
Mesopotamia writing.
What was cuneiform?
A material used for paper.
What was papyrus?
The home of Greek gods.
What was Mount Olympus?
A region developed by the philosopher Confucius.
What is Confucius?
Ordinary or poor citizens of Rome.
What were plebeians?
Weeds used to build roads.
What were reeds?
The massive structure built of stone, usually having a square base and four triangle sides that slope upward.
What was a pyramid?
Life in the city-states of Sparta revolved around mostly the military. Sparta was a warlike city-state and both men and women trained hard to remain in top physical condition.
What did the city-state Sparta revolve around?
An animal that was not considered food.
What are cows?
The language Romans used.
What is Latin?
levees and irrigation canals.
What did farmers use to help with the flooding?
The Egyptian process of preserving the body.
What was mummification?
God of the sky.
Who was Zeus?
Farmers honored these animals for protecting their crops.
What are cats and tigers
A way to transfer water.
What is a aqueduct?
Sumerians, Assyrians, Akkadian, and Babylonians.
What are some civilizations that devolved in Mesopotamia?
Goddess of war.
Who was Mut?
God of Agriculture.
Who was Demeter?
Philosophy developed by Lao-tzu
What is Taoism?
The most popular game in Rome?
What is a pigs bladder?