Where Are You?
The Fertile Crescent.
Where was Mesopotamia?
Tigress and Euphrates
What were the main rivers in Mesopotamia?
These people were near the bottom of all social pyramids,but they fed the everyone.
Who were farmers.
The earliest known form of writing. It was used in Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
2 Ancient Greek City-States
Where is Athens and Sparta
Irrigation
What is a system used to direct water towards farming and other uses.
These people were important in all societies and keep people safe.
Who were soldiers?
Invented the alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians
The worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
A series of islands surrounded by seas.
Where is Greece?
This sea is shared by Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
These people were not very high on the social pyramid, but they bought and sold items from all over.
Who were merchants?
This group of people who invented the plow, were able to increase the productivity of their farms.
Who were the Mesopotamians?
The city that was the birthplace of democracy and philosophy was named after this Greek goddess.
Who is Athena?
Located in Southern Asia.
Where was Mesopotamia?
This made it possible for farmers to grow crops in areas that lacked water.
What is irrigation?
These people communicated the will of the "gods" to the people. They were very high on the social pyramid.
Who were priests?
Democracy began in this city-state.
What is Athens?
Zeus' siblings
Who is Hera, Hades, and Poseidon
Current capital of Greece
Where is Athens
Form of government where citizens participate and vote on laws
Democracy
These people invented philosophy.
Who were the Greeks?
6 Greek Gods
Zeus, Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hades, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, Apollo