Ancient Egypt
Leaders in Ancient Egypt were given this title.
What is pharaoh?
Greece is mostly located on the southern part of Europe's Balkan _____.
What is Peninsula?
One legend about the founding of the city of Rome involves these twin brothers.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Another name for the Middle Ages. (also starts with an M)
What is Medieval?
What the word Renaissance means in French.
What is "Rebirth"?
This river flows through Egypt. Its yearly floods deposited rich nutrients on the farmers fields.
What is the Nile?
Sparta and Athens were the two most powerful Greek _____.
What are city-states?
Rome's ruling class, they were wealthy landowners and came from Rome's oldest and most prominent families.
Who were the Patricians?
Wealthy land-owners.
What were nobles?
Johannes Gutenberg created this invention that helped spread ideas and information.
What is the Printing Press?
This structure was built for the Pharaoh Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid? (Pyramid of Giza)
In a _____, all citizens share in running the government.
What is Democracy?
Most Romans were members of this less wealthy class, they included artisans, shopkeepers, and owners of small farms.
Who were the Plebians?
A peasant who could not leave the estate where they lived and worked without permission.
What is a Serf?
These scholars give importance to the individual and human society.They wanted to gain knowledge through reason, not just religious faith.
What were Humanists?
Ancient Egyptian writing system that used pictures to represent words.
What is Hieroglyphics?
In an _____, a few wealthy people hold power over the larger group of citizens.
What is an Oligarchy?
This most famous leader of Rome was murdered by being stabbed.
Who was Julius Caesar?
The name for land that was granted to a Vassal.
What is a Fief?
Northern European painters created realistic paintings using this new method.
What is Oil Painting?
The Nile River flows _____ and end in the _____ Sea.
What is North / Mediterranean?
A short tale that teaches a lesson.
What is a Fable?
He was the first Roman Emperor?
Who was Octavian? (Caesar Augustus)
In 1066, this man from Normandy won the Battle of Hastings and was crowned King of England.
Who was William the Conqueror?
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa all the way to India.
Who was Vasco da Gama?