Ancient Greece is made up of a group of islands located in this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This Greek city-state needed strong women to raise children, so they were permitted to eat the same food as the men and also trained in sports and fighting.
What is Sparta?
The patron saint of Athens.
Located in Nepal, this is the highest mountain above sea level. Its local name translates to "Holy Mother" in English.
What is Mt Everest?
The number of kings of Sparta.
What is two?
The Ancient Egyptians depended on this river.
What is the Nile River?
Spartan boys went to boarding school for military training at this age.
What is seven (years old)?
The Roman goddess of love and beauty. In Greece, she is known as Aphrodite. A planet is named after her.
Who is Venus?
The largest ocean in the world, named "the peaceful sea" by an explorer in the 16th century.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Athenian system of government in which all citizens have a voice.
What is democracy?
This city had an advantage of being able to grow fruits and vegetables all year round.
What is Rome?
What is pharaoh?
Usually represented as a figure with a human body and a hawk's head, this sun god is said to be ancestor of Egypt's leaders.
Who is Ra?
A landform surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The second-in-command to the pharaoh.
Who is the vizier?
This kind of terrain made Ancient Greece hard to navigate by land.
What is mountainous?
Some Athenian families allowed their daughters to learn these, though many thought it was scandalous.
What are musical instruments?
The Greek god of the underworld, known by the Romans as Pluto.
Who is Hades?
What is the name for the shaking of the surface of the Earth?
What is an earthquake?
Octavian, also known as Augustus, was the first of this kind of Roman ruler.
What is an emperor?
In the north of Egypt, the Nile River fanned out into the sea in this formation. This area had some of the most fertile land in Egypt.
What is a delta?
Men in Athens are only considered full citizens after completing this.
What is military training?
This Egyptian god of storms, deserts and violence was known to kill his own brother Osiris.
Who is Seth?
You can find this large natural wonder in the sea off the east coast of Australia.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
The kings of Sparta were said to be descended from this mythological hero.
Who is Heracles?