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This modern sporting event gets its name from when a Greek messenger ran 26 miles after Athens was victorious in a battle of the same name.
What is marathon?
a professional writer
What is a scribe?
A body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen.
What is a mummy?
The landscape of Greece has many of these geographic features.
What are mountains?
This Roman dictator was murdered on the Ides of March.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The original Olympic games honored this god.
Who is Zeus?
An eye for an eye comes from this ruler's law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
The name for Egyptian writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
This Greek city-state valued military service over education.
What is Sparta?
Rome's legendary founders who were twin brothers.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This was Rome's most popular sport.
What is chariot racing?
pyramid shaped temple tower
What is a ziggurat?
A female pharaoh who ruled Egypt well for 21 years.
Who is Hatshepsut?
A Greek/Macedonian conqueror who spread Greek culture and never lost a battle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The Roman Republic's ruling upper class.
Who are patricians?
This Mesopotamian civilization invented the wheel.
Who are the Sumerians?
the arc of rich farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
He was the Egyptian god of embalming
Who is Anubis?
The Greek marketplace.
What is an agora?
The 200 year period of peace in the Roman Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
According to legend, he was the first pharaoh.
Who is Menes?
This civilization in Mesopotamia invented the world's first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
A collection of spells and prayers to help Egyptians reach the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead?
This is the only battle the Greeks lost to the Persians in the Persian Wars.
What is Thermopylae?
The biggest unit in the Roman army.
What is a legion?