Five Ancient Civilizations

Mesopotamia was located between which two rivers?

• Tiber & Po
• Nile & Congo
• Tigris & Euphrates
• Yangtze & Yellow

The Sumerian writing system was called ____.

• hieroglyphics
• glyphs
• Latin
• cuneiform

What is Mesopotamia often called?

• Birth of democracy
• Eternal city
• Land of pharaohs
• Cradle of civilization

The Code of Hammurabi was one of the first written law codes.

• True
• False

Egyptian civilization grew up along which river?

• Tiber
• Nile
• Amazon
• Euphrates

Egyptian kings were called what?

• Archons
• Emperors
• Senators
• Pharaohs

Egyptians preserved bodies through a process called ____.

• mummification
• cremation
• hibernation
• fossilization

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 776 BCE.

• True
• False

Which Greek city-state is famous for developing democracy?

• Rome
• Thebes
• Athens
• Sparta

Ancient Greece was one united country ruled by a single king.

• True
• False

The Olympic Games began around which year?

• 900 CE
• 2560 BCE
• 27 BCE
• 776 BCE

Which thinker was a famous Greek philosopher?

• Aristotle
• Socratesia
• Hammurabi
• Augustus

Rome's first emperor was:

• Plato
• Hammurabi
• Augustus
• Socrates

Romans built ____ to carry water into their cities.

• glyphs
• pyramids
• aqueducts
• cuneiform

Latin became the root of languages like Spanish and French.

• True
• False