What is the type of lifestyle that the early Mesopotamians practiced to raise food?
100
Running over 4000 miles, this is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
100
The religion of the Greeks and Romans included the worship of many gods. This practice is known as _____.
What is polytheism?
100
The term Indo-European refers to peoples who spoke languages derived from the same parent language. Indo-European languages include, Greek, Latin,____, and the languages
What are Sanskrit and Germanic?
100
The Persians were a nomadic, Indo-European people living in what is today south-west ______. One family unified the different groups
What is Iran?
200
The first Mesopotamia Civilization
Who are the Sumerians?
200
In ancient Egypt, the Northern part of the empire was called ______ and the Southern part was called ______. (Must be in order)
What are Lower and Upper Egypt?
200
The Greeks practiced a form of govenrment called _______, which is still widely practiced today.
What is democracy?
200
The _____ were an important new group in the area of Palestine. They lived on a narrow band of the Mediterranean coast only 120 miles long
Who are the Phoenicians?
200
One member, _____, created a powerful Persian state from Asia Minor to western India.
Who is Cyrus?
300
Mesopotamia is located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The area is called the _____________.
What is the fertile crescent ?
300
Two important river and land gods were____and____. They were husband and wife.
Who are Osiris and Isis?
300
The Romans established a _______, which saw representation for citizens in the _______.
What are the Republic and Senate?
300
The _____ were a Semitic people living in Palestine along the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Some interpretations of archaeological evidence indicates they emerged as a distinct group between 1200 and 1000 BCE.
Who are the Israelites?
300
______ strengthened the Persian government by dividing the empire into 20 provinces, called satrapies.
Who is Darius?
400
Set out laws and punishments, some quite severe
What is the code of Hammurabi?
400
______gave the Egyptians a sense of confidence and added to the noteworthy continuity of Egyptian civilization for thousands of years
What is geography?
400
Like all ancient civilizations, Rome relied on _________ to build the magnificent architechture that stands today.
What is slave labor?
400
The Israelites’ main contribution to history was their religion, ______.
What is Judaism?
400
A governor, or ______, collected taxes, handled legal matters, and recruited soldiers
What is a satrap?
500
A major city that emerged in Sumer about 5,500 years ago
What is Uruk
500
This pharoah was a monotheist.
Who is Ahkhenaton?
500
The Roman religion gradually gave way to a new religion under Emperor Constantine, _________.
What is Christianity?
500
In 772 BCE the ______ conquered the ten northern tribes of Israel.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
__________ were made up of ten thousand cavalry and ten thousand infantry