Early Man
time before recorded history
What is Pre-history?
land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
The river which Egyptian civilization depended on
What was the Nile?
Led the Hebrews out of Egypt
Who was Moses?
ACTUAL JEOPARDY ?
This word referring to stern discipline comes from a city-state in ancient Greece
What is spartan?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
This nymph was punished by Hera to only repeat what she heard
Who was Echo?
a first hand account of an event
What is a primary source?
the two rivers that border Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
ACTUAL JEOPARDY ?
Tensions exists between Egypt and the British museum over the return of this, taken from Egypt in 1801
What was the Rosetta Stone?
The Pharaoh during the time of Moses
Who was Rameses?
Actual Jeopardy ?
An Ostrikan was a piece of pottery with a name on it; if your name was on enough ostrika, you got this punishment for a 10-year period
What was ostracism?
Real Jeopardy ?
Actaeon pays a "deer" price for spying on this twin sister of Apollo while bathing
Who is Artemis
object which tells of the past
What is an artifact?
the world's first civilization
What is Sumer?
kept order among the people in Egypt and allowed for it's empire to last for over 3,000 years
What is the Social Pyramid
The promise land or the land of milk and honey
What is Canaan?
Real Jeopardy ?
We can give you 300 reasons you should know this king of Sparta who headed the Persians off at the pass in 480 B.C.
Who was Leonidas?
Real Jeopardy ?
Antonio Carava made a famous Greek sculpture of this Greek hero, sword in one hand and gorgon head in the other.
Who was Perseus?
a lifestyle which follows a resource to meet basic needs
What is nomadic?
Mesopotamian places of worship like the Temple of Etemenanki in Babylon that inspired the biblical Tower of Babel
What are ziggurats?
REAL JEOPARDY ?
Legend says that Pharaoh Psamtik III sacrifieced his kingdom rather than fight when his foes brought these sacred animals, maus, into battle
What are cats?
ACTUAL JEOPARDY ?
Hebrews 6 says that when God made a promise to this patriarch, "because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself"
Who was Abraham?
What was the battle of Salamis?
Real Jeopardy ?
This Greek god of wine couldn't always jold his wine--Rhea gave him an amethyst to keep him from getting too drunk
Who is Dionysus?
the manipulating of land to grow crops
What is cultivation?
Mesopotamians constructed their public buildings, homes and walls out of this material
What is mud-brick?
location of the great pyramids
Where is Giza?
It took Moses this duration of time to get the hebrews from Egypt back to the promise land
What is 40 years?
ACTUAL JEOPARDY ?
Plato was one of the first authors to depict a trial--this Greek's trial after the Peloponnesian war, in the Apology
Who was Socrates?
Second Epic poem written by Homer
What was the Odyssey?