Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia means land between...
the rivers
Longest river in the world
The Nile
River in Israel
Jordan
This mountain range creates a natural barrier between India and China
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
Which Greek city-state would you find the majority of young men involved in the military?
Sparta
Religious temples similar to pyramids
ziggurats
The most powerful female pharaoh
Hatshepsut
First person to practice monotheism
Abraham
India's climate is shaped by seasonal winds called..
Monsoons
A city state that favored democracy and education
Athens
Famous for his code of laws
Hammurabi
The boy king
King Tut
He led the Israelites out of slavery from Egypt
Moses
Two main rivers in India are the Ganges and the...
Indus River
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were ancient Greek
Philosophers
Mesopotamia form of writing
cuneiform
This valley has many tombs of pharaohs
Valley of the Kings
The Dead Sea is ___ times saltier than the ocean
seven
The belief that the Chinese rulers right to rule came from the gods
Mandate of Heaven
A wealthy, upper class person in ancient Rome
Patrician
Believed to have formed the first human civilization in the world
Sumerians
Type of writing used by ancient Egyptians
Hieroglyphics
Believed to be the birthplace of Jesus
Bethlehem
Buddhism is based on the teaching of
Siddhartha Gautama
He made himself dictator for life and was assassinated
Julius Caesar