Ancient Mesopatamia | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Greece | Ancient Rome | Wild card |
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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 city of Rome
What is the capital of the roman empire before Constantine?
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The Babylonian empire
The Sumerian empire The Persian empire
What was o e of the ancient mesopatamian empires?
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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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Constantine
Who made Christianity an exempted religion?
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Ra
Who was the sun god of Egypt?
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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) |
Greek culture
What is the main culture the Romans adopted
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Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
What were the names of the two Roman men Cleopatra fell in love with?
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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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The empire was betting to big to control and protect
Civil wars were braking out inside the empire Barbarians were attack outside the empire Warriors weren't loyal to the emperor anymore
Give two reasons the Roman empire fell?
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Athens and Sparta
Who were Greeks most rival city-states?
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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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Augustus/Octavian Caesar
The death of Julius Caesar
Who was the first emperor
What started emperors in Rome |
Hatshepsut
Who was the first women Pharaoh?
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