He was found in the mountains of Austria and is considered one of the oldest mummified bodies to ever have been found. He must have been freezing!
What is Otzi the Iceman?
100
Rivers of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
The Ancient Sumerians wrote in this. (Mesopotamia)
What was cuneiform?
100
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
100
This sits atop the acropolis in Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
200
King of the Babylonians that created a code of law that wasn't always so nice.
Who was Hammurabi?
200
River that flows south to north and helped the Ancient Egyptians to develop their civilization.
What is the Nile?
200
The Ancient Egyptians wrote in this.
What were hieroglyphic?
200
The belief in one god.
What is monotheistic?
200
This was the place the Romans enjoyed gladiator fights.
What is the Roman Coliseum?
300
He is the pharaoh that rests in the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Who is King Khufu?
300
The Minoans, Mycenaeans, and later the Greeks relied on this sea for traveling and trade.
What is Mediterranean?
300
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The Ancient Chinese had these TWO types of characters.
What are pictographs and ideographs?
300
This Chinese philosophy believed that people were born evil and needed harsh laws to govern them.
What is Legalism?
300
He invented the printing press, which aloud for mass production of books.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
400
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Two part answer. This Roman general became dictator of Rome with the support of this famous pharaoh. Unfortunately that both met with tragic endings. One was stabbed and the other was bitten by a snake.
Who were Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII?
400
The two rivers in China.
What are the Yellow and Yangtze rivers? or Huang He and Chiang Yang rivers?
400
Ancient India wrote in this.
What was Sanskrit?
400
This religion's symbol is a crescent moon and star and their prophet is Muhammad.
What is Islam?
400
Pyramids were the burial tombs of the Old Kingdom in Egypt. This place was built later for underground tombs. *Hint King Tut still rests there.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
500
This English monarch helped Martin Luther's cause to reform the church. He did not like the Pope telling him who he could marry. All six of them!
Who was Henry the VIII?
500
For all of the civilizations we have covered, rivers always provided these three things.
What are farming, travel, and trade?
500
This seafaring group began the idea of a letter representing a sound. They influenced the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and our current alphabet.
Who were the Phoenicians?
500
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Name the five major world religions and their place of origin.
What are Islam-Saudi Arabia, Christianity-Israel, Judaism-Israel, Hinduism-India, Buddhism-Northern India/Nepal?
500
This famous Greek slave wrote many fables we still read today.