Which Empire
Animals
Water
Shakespeare-ish
Blank Spaces
100

It formed around the Nile River in Northeastern Africa.

What is Egypt?

100

Hannibal used them in war for the first time in known history.

What are elephants?

100

This sea was central to early civilizations in North Africa, Middle East, and Southern Europe.

What is the Mediterranean?

100

How Shakespeare would say "thou art" today.

What is "you are?"

100

The fault is not in our _______ but in ourselves.

What is stars?

200

It expanded from the east under Alexander the Great.

What is Persia?

200

The Mongols used them in battle- it was a main factor for their rapid growth.

What are horses?

200
Julius Caesar sparked a civil war when he marched troops into Rome by crossing this small river. 

What is the Rubicon?

200

How you'd say "hence, home!" in Modern English.

What is "go home?"
200

"Men at sometimes are masters of their _____"

What is fates?

300

It became the world's first democratic republic.

What is Rome?

300

Legend says that Pharaoh Menes was killed by one of these large animals.

What is a hippo?

300

These arched stone structures carried water from the mountaintops down into the towns across the Roman Empire. 

What are aqueducts?

300

How to say "Prithee peace!" in 2024.

What is "please be quiet?"

300

"Think of him as a serpent... and kill him in the ______"

What is shell?

400

It spread throughout the region now known and Central America and Southern Mexico.

What is Maya?

400

This animal is said to have caused Cleopatra's death.

What is a snake?

400

This river flows south to north, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the Nile?

400

How to say "Darest thou call me a cobbler?"

What is "do you dare to call me a shoe-maker?"

400

Beware the _______ of March.

What is Ides?

500

It was destroyed after the Punic Wars- Rome struck back!!!! 

What is Carthage?

500
From Ancient Egypt or Persia, Salukis are the first domestication.

What is a dog?

500

These 2 rivers in modern-day Iraq form the Fertile Crescent, known as the Cradle of Civilization.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

500

What we'd say to ask this question in 2024: "Wherefore dost thou labor in that shop?"

What is "Why do work in that store?"

500

I come to bury Caesar not to _________ him. 

What is praise.