1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Mesopotamia ChinaRomeEgyptGreece

2. A Greek word that means “land between the rivers”

3. What is Mesopotamia?

4. A system of canals and ditches that supplies water to crops

5. What is an irrigation system?

6. The ancient people who lived in Sumer

7. Who are the Sumerians?

8. A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

9. What is a levee?

10. The way a civilization is organized into classes

11. What is social structure?

12. The great trade route that began in China, stretched across southern Asia, and ended at the Mediterranean Sea

13. What is the Silk Road?

14. The most common crop grown in China

15. What is rice?

16. The characteristics needed in the soil to grow rice

17. What are wet and fertile?

18. The practice of honoring ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the dead

19. What is ancestor worship?

20. He said that the Chinese needed to return to ethics or moral values

21. Who is Confucius?

22. The two groups in early Roman society

23. What are the plebeians and patricians?

24. The two most powerful magistrates in the Roman government

25. What are consuls?

26. The public meeting place and heart of the city in ancient Rome

27. What is the Forum?

28. The slave who led a revolt and demanded freedom of all slaves

29. Who is Spartacus?

30. The religion that spread throughout the Roman Empire

31. What is Christianity?

32. A huge triangular-shaped monument used as a tomb

33. What is a pyramid?

34. Another word for a craftsperson

35. What is an artisan?

36. A person who does farm work for wealthy landowners

37. What is a peasant?

38. A high-ranking government official who advised the pharaoh

39. What is a vizier?

40. To treat a dead body with preservatives to prevent it from decaying

41. What is embalming?

42. A period in Athens of peace and great wealth

43. What is the Golden Age?

44. A female priest

45. What is a priestess?

46. A person who makes money by selling goods

47. What is a merchant?

48. A single ruler who inherits power

49. What is a monarch?

50. A person who seizes power illegally

51. What is a tyrant?