A region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt.
What is The Fertile Crescent
100
This river is in northern Egypt and is where major cities have grown and thrived for thousands of years
What is The Nile
100
Early Greek people who conquered the island of Crete
Who were the Mycenaeans
100
Set tricked his brother Osiris into lying down into a
What is a coffin
100
The area in Northern Egypt where the river splits into several different little rivers which pour to the sea
What is Nile Delta
200
Hammurabi ruled the whole southern part of Mesopotamia called
What is Babylonia
200
The King of Egypt was also known as
What is Pharaoh
200
The Mycenaeans built these all around the Aegean Sea
What are colonies
200
A Mesopotamian king famous as the hero of an epic tale in which he battles Enkidu, makes friends with him and goes with him in search of immortality
Who was Gilgamesh
200
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
300
Hammurabi wrote down a set of laws called
What is The Code of Hammurabi
300
Priests put most of the organs inside these when preparing a mummy
What are canopic jars
300
A Greek Poet who wrote down some of the old Greek stories
Who was Homer
300
He lived in one of the cities of Sargon's empire called Ur. But later God told him to move to the land of Canaan
Who was Abram or Abraham
300
Famous even today, this is how the Romans traveled from one end of the Italian peninsula to the other
What is Roads!
400
Who had to obey the Code of Hammurabi?
What is Everyone, even the king
400
During the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Egyptians began to make ______ for the first time
What are pyramids
400
Considered the father of Greek Democracy, he helped put into place reforms during 508-507 BC
Who was Cleisthenes
400
The goddess of love and beauty
Who is Aphrodite
400
The peninsula where Sparta was located
What is Peloponnese
500
Sargon united all of the city-states in Mesopotamia and named his new empire
What is Akkadia
500
This Egyptian Pharaoh who introduced a new religion, the worship of one god Aten, and moved the capital in order to escape the power of the other reliegions
Who was Amenhotep IV
500
The Golden Age of Athens is named for this leader who is also famous for his Funeral Oration
Who was Pericles
500
She is the ROMAN goddess of the harvest
Who is Ceres (remember this is Rome, not Greece ;)
500
The name of the sea reportedly miraculously parted when Moses was escaping with the Israelites out of Egypt