The Nile River in this country created a river valley with predictable flooding.
What is Egypt?
100
This civilization invented the wheel
What is Mesopotamia (or Sumer)?
100
In Neolithic societies having a ___________ of food was the basis of their economy
What is a surplus?
100
This city state was the first to have a democratic government
What is Athens, Greece?
100
Country where the God of the Gods was Zeus
What is Greece?
200
Two rivers formed this river valley where one of the first neolithic societies developed.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Wedge shaped writing on clay tablets that was the writing system of the ancient Sumerians
What is cuneiform?
200
In Greece, this item was as valued as money
What is olive oil?
200
This ruler wrote the first Code of laws
Who is Hammurabi?
200
The belief that there is only one God for all people
What is monotheism?
300
The Mediterranean Sea and this formed a protective barrier for Egypt
What is the Sahara Desert?
300
The Egyptians wrote on these sheets and kept the process to make them secret so they could sell them to other civilizations
What is papyrus?
300
The fact that not everyone in neolithic societies was needed to produce food allowed people to ____________
What is specialize?
300
This type of government means rule by a few
What is an oligarchy?
300
The stories in Greek mythology were intended to do this
What is explain natural phenomena that the Greeks did not understand
400
The mountains in this area kept the city-states isolated from each other
What is Greece?
400
The Greeks were famous for their advances in this type of mathematics
What is geometry?
400
Hatshepsut was the first female what?
What is pharaoh?
400
King Solomon built this place of worship for the Jews
What is the First Temple?
500
The development of irrigation is an example of this MR HELP category
What is human environment interaction?
500
People in this society invented and wore makeup to protect their skin from the harsh sun
What is Egypt?
500
The Greeks established colonies in other areas because they needed this
What are raw materials and more fertile land to grow more food for a growing population
500
This word was used to describe people who seized power in ancient Greece to help the lower classes. Even though most of them ruled fairly, this word has come to mean a cruel and oppressive ruler
What is a tyrant?
500
The Minoans engaged in this dangerous practice for both sport and religious reasons