Early Cultures - Meso
The first tools were made of this.
What is stone?
The first pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Menes?
The two rivers where China's civilization began.
What are the Huang He (Yellow) River and the Chang Jiang (Yangzi) River?
The Greeks first developed this government of people ruling themselves.
What is democracy?
He killed his brother Remus for mocking his ideas on building a city.
Who is Romulus?
Freezing times about 10,000 years ago were called this.
What is the Ice Age?
The level of Egyptian society just under the pharaoh.
Who are the nobles?
The major trade route through China.
What is the Silk Road?
Ancient Greeks believed in these to help explain disasters and daily events.
What are gods?
The majority of the Roman population, also known as the common people.
Who are plebeians?
282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Special monuments where the Egyptians would bury their rulers.
What are pyramids?
Early writing was found on these bones which priests believed they could read the cracks.
What are oracle bones?
He wanted people to question themselves and answered questions with questions.
Who is Socrates?
To prohibit the actions of other officials, or in Latin, "I forbid."
What is veto?
The world's first civilization, developed in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
He felt China was overrun by rude and dishonest people and thought China needed to return to moral values.
Who is Confucius?
The war between Athens and Sparta that almost tore Greece apart.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Considered the greatest general in Roman history.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The first military leader to arm soldiers with bows and arrows and gained loyalty of his soldiers by eating with them every day.
Who is Sargon?
Considered the last, great Egyptian pharaoh.
Who is Ramses the Great?
The way.
What is Daoism?
His father developed the phalanx, a square, fighting formation, and although a great warrior and leader, died after he was bitten by a mosquito.
Who is Alexander the Great?
He divorced Octavian's sister to marry Cleopatra, then committed suicide with her so he wouldn't be taken prisoner by Octavian.
Who is Marc Antony?