Geography
The name of this area means "Between 2 rivers" and is considered the cradle of civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This religion is the world's oldest, includes the concepts of the Caste System, and holds belief in hundreds of Gods like Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu.
What is Hindu (Hinduism)?
The Pyramids of Giza are one of the greatest architectural achievements of this culture.
What is Ancient Egypt?
In this process of preparing a body after death, organs were removed through the nose and placed in jars.
What is mummification?
This movie shows ancestry customs including marriage ceremonies, warrior traditions and demonstrates filiel piety with an ancestral shrine and dragon guardian spirit named Mushu .
What is Mulan?
This country has the longest coastline in Europe and is best known for the thousands of beautiful islands dotting the blue Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian Seas.
What is Greece?
The Monotheistic religion that spread through Rome. They faced persecution because they denied the gods who were thought to protect Rome, thereby bringing their wrath.
What is Christianity? (or Christians)
The Chinese began to encounter other cultures and bring items in from the outside world along this important route.
What is the Silk Road?
This product comes from the cocoon of worms and was so valuable that stealing the larva came with penalty of death.
What is silk?
Greek mythology is the theme of this movie. A son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades and forced to live among mortals as a demi-god. He uses his strength to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus.
What is Hercules?
This civilization was isolated from others because of the Himalaya Mountains to the West, seas in the south, and deserts in the North.
What is Chinese Civilization or China?
Monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Believes in one God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and Hebrew prophets.
What is Judaism? (Jews)
This ancient civilization brought achievements in math and science like dentistry, Ayurveda healing, flush toilet systems, plastic surgery, the concept of zero, standard weights and the pythagorean theorem.
What is India?
This Indian religion considers cows to be a sacred symbol of life. In the Veda (holy scripture) the goddess Aditi is shown with a beautiful white cow as a symbol of faith, so it's followers are vegetarian.
What is Hinduism?
In this time travel movie, a boy who was raised by a dog, travels in the Way-Back machine to Ancient Egypt where the young King Tut tries to marry his friend.
What is Peabody and Sherman?
Civilizations in Egypt settled in this river valley.
What is the Nile River Valley?
Followers of Siddhartha Gautama searched for enlightenment, followed the 8 fold path, and hoped to reach Nirvana in this Religion/Belief System.
What is Buddhism?
Ancient Rome figured out Engineering marvels to carry water in and out of the city that are still used today.
What are aqueducts?
An achievement of this civilization was public baths heated by hot springs and continual fresh water.
What is Rome?
This movie is set in the New York Museum of Natural History where the tablets of Ra make the museum come alive at night.
What is Night at the Museum?
This subcontinent is rich in natural resources but agricultural growing seasons are affected yearly by massive Monsoons.
What is India?
Greek Gods and Goddesses would reward and punish mortals from atop their home on ____________.
What is Mount Olympus?
This ancient civilization brought us the wheel, plow, Cuneiform writing and canals for watering crops.
What is Mesopotamia? (Sumerian)
This Babylonian King created 282 written laws that included "an eye for an eye" and rules about selling your family into slavery if you couldn't pay taxes.
Who was Hammurabi? (Hammurabi's Code)
At the beginning of Despicable Me, this site in Ancient Egypt was stolen and replaces with inflatables.
What are the pyramids of Giza?