Ancient History Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the name given to the era that saw the domestication of plants (farming) develops across the world independently? | agricultural revolution |
| The Bronze Age was ushered in around 4,000 BCE when what two metals were combined? | copper and tin |
| Name one of the two animals that were domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America for their meat and wool, and in one case to carry loads. | llama |
| What staple crop was the Olmec civilization responsible for breeding from wild teosinte? | maize |
| Sumerian temples were known as what? | ziggurats |
| Human prehistory is divided into what two eras? | paleolithic and neolithic |
| What fertile area named due to two rivers that it encompassed; it was home to some of the world's first cities and civilizations? | mesopotamia |
| One (if not the) earliest pieces of literature is an epic poem that follows the exploits of a legendary half-man/half god king named? | gilgamesh |
| What was the first dynasty of rulers in ancient China? | shah dynasty |
| What was the first published laws code were created by the Babylonian ruler? | hammurabi |
| The first woman to become Pharaoh was? | hatshepsut |
| The people whom had a great trade network stretched across the Mediterranean and made Purple and the Alphabet? | phoenicians |
| The middle kingdom came to an end with the Invasion of Egypt by people who used horse-drawn chariots? | hyksos |
| The writer of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey was? | homer |
| Moved to other areas in the Mediterranean, some destroyed the Hittite empire | sea people |
| Egyptians recorded ideas on these | papyrus |
| What civilization on Crete was named after their king | minoans |
| The pharaoh united upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt | narmer |
| A family of rulers who's right to rule is passed within the family | dynasty |
| Pharaoh was believed to be the human form of what god | horus |
| Solder was dispatched to Athens to proclaim the victory | battle of marathon |
| How did Spartans treat infants? | kill the weak |
| Persuaded the Spartans to overthrow the Athenian tyrants | cliestiens |
| Alliance for protection against Persia, Sparta created an apposing alliance | peloponnesion league |
| Spartans enslaved the inhabitances of other places, these people were known as | helots |
| King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans held back the Persian Army at the | battle of therompyble |
| Athens created this league against Persia | delion league |
| means "rule of the people" | democracy |
| Said the material world is just shadows | plato |
| was elected Archon in 594 BCE | solon |
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