China and the Indus River Valley
We have no hard evidence on what ended this civilization. Theories include earthquakes, rivers drying up, or nomadic invaders.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This term refers to the type of religion that existed in ancient Mesopotamia, along with other ancient civilizations, and means having more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
This City-State is know for its army, where boys begin their training at 7 and serve in the military until they are 60
What is Sparta?
This is the final resting place for pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
This famous hero, known for his ankle, fought and died in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles?
This symbol from ancient china is still famous and used today, representing the duality of life - light and dark, good and evil, etc.
What is the Yin and Yang symbol?
The writing system of Mesopotamia, using a reed to mark into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
This city-state is the birthplace of democracy, known for their advancements in art, science, and literature.
What is Athens?
He is the most famous Egyptian Pharaoh, though not for anything he did during his life. his tomb was one of the only tombs that was discovered fully intact.
Who is King Tut?
These three Gods are called the "Big Three" one ruling the heavens, another the sea, and the last over the underworld.
Who are Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades?
This is the reason why we don't have a lot of information about the Indus Valley Civilization
We can't read their written language
This is the region in which ancient Mesopotamia grew.
What is The Fertile Crescent / The Middle East?
These two structures, built in Alexandria, Egypt, both met an untimely end. One by earthquake, and one by fire.
What are the Pharos Lighthouse and the Library of Alexandria.
This is how the eras of Egyptian rule is divided
What is the Three Kingdoms?
This God is the favorite of your teacher, known for his ruling over the sun, music, healing and plagues.
Who is Apollo?
This is the way that eras of Chinese Rule is divided
Into dynasties
The name of the first written code of law
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This teacher is known often for his more prolific student, Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
This is the name of the stone that was found that helped us translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
He is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Some historians believe he never existed, or that it was a collection of people rather than just one.
Who is Homer?
This is what gives the rulers of ancient china their power. It says that they are allowed to rule as long as they are effective and just.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
These are the names of the two rivers where the Mesopotamian civilization began
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
He was a famous philosopher, and was eventually put to death for his beliefs. The official charges were heresy and "corruption of the youth"
Who is Socrates?
this location is the mythical afterlife of the Ancient Egyptians. It was said that if your heart weighed less than a feather, you would end up here.
What is the Field of Reeds?
He is most well known for slaying Medusa in mythology, and shares his name with another modern demigod.
Who is Perseus?