Ancient Mesopatamia | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece | Ancient To |
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Land between two rivers
What does mesopatamia mean?
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Hieroglyphics
What was the writing called?
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Aristotle
Socrates Plato
Name at least 1of the famous philosophers
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The Tigris and Euphrates
Which two rivers is mesopatamia between?
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Pharaohs
What did they call their kings?
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The government
Who thought the three famous philosophers were a threat?
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A ziggurat
What sort of temple did the people live around?
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Middle
There was an old,______,and new kingdom
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Mount Olympus
(They thought that because they couldn't climb it and believed that gods controlled the world and since they couldn't get up it that the gods didn't want them to)
What mountain did the ancient Greeks believe the gods lived on?
(Extra 50 points if you can say why) |
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Polytheistic
Were the ancient people polytheistic or monotheist?
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The Nile
What is the river that ran through Egypt?
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The Persian empire
Who did the Greeks defeat at the battle of Thermopylae?
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Scribes
Very few people could read
What were people called if they knew how to read?
How many people could read? |
Nobles, farmers, craft workers
What people were in the middle of the social pyramid?
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7
What age did boys of Sparta go to the elite battle training program?
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