Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia's nickname
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Nile River?
This nickname for ancient China was used because its people believed that they were the center of the world.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The reason that ancient Greeks needed to travel and establish colonies.
What is a lack of land for farming and living space?
Rome is located on this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
These 2 rivers flow through the area known as Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates River?
This word, meaning "many gods," best describes ancient Egyptian religious beliefs.
What is polytheism?
This fertile soil deposit is what makes the Yellow River yellow.
What is loess?
This early civilization worshipped a mother goddess and jumped over bulls for fun.
Who are the Minoans?
This early form of Roman government allowed citizens the power to elect their leaders.
What is a republic?
This pictograph writing system was first used to keep track of crop prices and taxes
What is cuneiform?
This pharaoh, the boy king, restored the ancient religion and died around age 19.
Who was Tutankhamun/Tut?
This is what gave emperors the right to rule ancient China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This early Greek conflict has its origin in both myth and fact, and involved the invasion of a city-state over a kidnapping.
What is the Trojan War?
This ancient Roman legal system created laws to deal with debt, parental rights, and funeral rites.
What is the 12 Tables?
What is Sumer?
Mummification was important to the ancient Egyptians for this reason
What is preserving the body after death so that the soul could find it again?
This ancient Chinese dynasty ruled using the legalist system, relying on strict laws and harsh punishments to keep the people in line.
Who are the Qin/Qin dynasty?
Name one of the achievements of Athens.
Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC for this reason.
What is the Senate felt that he was becoming too powerful?
This early set of laws was invented by a Babylonian king and includes the belief "an eye for an eye."
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This era in ancient Egypt was a time of prosperity, wealth, and innovation.
What is the New Kingdom?
This quote best connects to what ancient Chinese philosophy?
"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
What is Daoism?
This Greco-Persian war battle involved bottlenecking the enemy fleet in a narrow part of the sea and destroying their ships.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
Who is Octavian/Augustus Caesar?