THE TROJAN WARS
WHAT TWO SIDES FOUGHT IN THE TROJAN WAR?
THE TROJANS AND AKIANS ALSO KNOWN AS GREEKS
WHERE WERE THE GREEK OLYMPICS HELD?
OLYMPIA
WHAT IS A CITY STATE?
A CITY, AND IT'S SURROUNDING AREA, THAT IS ALSO IT'S OWN COUNTRY
WHAT ARE THE LARGE TOMBS CALLED THAT WERE BUILT FOR THREE OF THE PHARAOHS?
PYRAMIDS
WHAT WAS THE FIRST CIVILIZATION TO DEVELOP IN THE WORLD?
MESOPOTAMIA
WHAT WOMAN LEFT HER HUSBAND AND RAN OFF WITH PARIS, A PRINCE OF TROY, STARTING THE TROJAN WAR?
HELEN
HOW OFTEN WERE THE OLYMPICS HELD?
EVERY 4 YEARS
WHY DID THE GREEKS FIND IT SO HARD TO HAVE A UNIFIED COUNTRY LIKE WE HAVE TODAY?
BECAUSE GREECE WAS A SERIES OF ISLANDS SEPERATED BY DISTANCE AND WATER
IS THE EGYPTIAN RELIGION POLYTHEISTIC OR MONOTHEISTIC?
POLYTHEISTIC
WHAT WERE THE PEOPLE CALLED WHO BEFORE CIVILIZATION DEVELOPED. HINT THEY GOT THEIR FOOD BY HUNTING AND GATHERING.
HUNTER GATHERERS
WHAT HERO OF THE TROJAN WAR WAS DIPPED IN THE RIVER STYX AS A BABY, MAKING HIM ALMOST INVINCABLE?
ACHILLES
200 METER RACE
WHAT HELD THE ANCIENT GREEKS TOGETHER AS A CIVILIZATION
LANGUAGE, RELIGION, TRADE, AND THE OLYMPICS
WHAT ARE THE LEADERS OF ANCIENT EGYPT CALLED?
PHARAOHS
WAS ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA POLYTHEISTIC OR MONOTHEISTIC?
POLYTHEISTIC
WHAT BOOK IS KNOWN AS THE BIBLE OF THE GREEKS?
THE ILIAD
WHAT GOD DID THE OLYMPICS HONOR?
ZUES
WHAT TWO CITIES HAD A TRADITIONAL RIVALRY EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD ALSO BE ALLIES?
SPARTA AND ATHENS
HOW DID EGYPTIANS PREPARE BODIES FOR THE AFTERLIFE?
MUMIFICATION
WHAT WAS THE FIRST WRITTEN LAW CODE FROM MESOPOTAMIA CALLED?
THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
WHY DID ACHILLES REFUSE TO FIGHT DURING THE TROJAN WARS?
KING AGEMEMNON STOLE HIS STOLEN GIRL
WHAT WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORT IN THE OLYMPICS?
BOXING
WHY DID THE GREEKS TURN TO THE OCEAN TO MAKE A LIVING?
THEY WERE SURROUNDED BY WATER AND THEIR LAND WAS ROCKY, STEEP, AND NOT GOOD FOR FARMING
WHO WAS THE LAST PHAROAH OF EGYPT?
CLEOPATRA
WHAT IS ONE RIGHT A FATHER HAD OVER HIS CHILDREN IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA?
THEY COULD SELL THEM, OR HAVE THE MAIMED, AND ARRANGED MARRAIGES FOR THEM.