5 Written Questions

1. An area at the mouth of a river, often triangular shaped, made up of silt deposits
2. A reedy plant that grew along the Nile -- the Egyptians used ___ pulp to make paper-like sheets which did not decompose quickly
3. A league formed on the islands of Delos, formed by city-states who wanted to punish Persia
   Athens controlled the "league of equals"
4. Political structure
   Created new offices and institutions of government:
   Senate, Popular assemblies, Magistrates
5. The common people who challenged the patricians from the beginning of Republic

5 Matching Questions

1. Theocracy
2. aqueducts
3. consuls
4. Constantine
5. Peloponnesian

1. a Headed by Sparta, it was an alliance formed in the 500s BC
2. b Man-made channels used to bring water to the cities
3. c Two magistrates who took place of the last King of Rome
   Elected for one year and were the chief executives and commanders of the army
4. d A state ruled by religious figures (Egypt was a _____)
   The Pharaoh was thought to be a god, religion and government were closely intertwined in the Old Kingdom
5. e The son of one of the original Caesars
   Continued Diocletian's policies
   Supported Christianity

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spoke the first form of the Greek language
   Writing has been translated
   Great traders
   Intense competition, frequent warfare, powerful kings
   Great taxes on trade and farming
   Trojan War - Legend
   Ended because of war, droughts and famines, invasion and end of trade .. by 1100s BC
   1. Cataracts
   2. Menes
   3. Mycenaeans
   4. Minoans
2. A general who became consul in 88 BC
   He marched on Rome with his regions after Marius and his supporters defied Roman custom to prevent him from taking command
   Resulting was a civil war that _____ won and he became dictator
   He retired after incorrectly believing he had preserved the old republic after executing his enemies and trying to protect the power of the Senate
   1. Lucius Cornelius Sulla
   2. Gaius Marius
   3. consuls
   4. circuses
3. A form of government run by the people
   Developed around 500 BC
   1. Theocracy
   2. democracy
   3. demotic
   4. Hammurabi
4. The main Egyptian writing system
   Used picture symbols to represent objects, sounds, ideas
   One of the world's first writing systems
   1. Polytheism
   2. Hieroglyphics
   3. Ostrogoths
   4. Hellenistic
5. Greek for "end" "purpose" "goal"
   1. Minoans
   2. Menes
   3. telos
   4. polis

5 True/False Questions

1. tribunes → Chariot races took place here
   Enjoyed by everyone

   True        False

2. Sargon → First Akkadian Ruler to create and permanent army which he used to conquer Sumer and Mesopotamia

   True        False

3. Ostrogoths → The first major writer of history in Greece -- lived during the wars in Persia
   
   His most famous work is The Historian which described major events of the wars
   Some were his and some were eyewitness' yet some of his sources were unreliable

   True        False

4. Senate → A body of 300 members who advised elected officials, controlled public finances, and handled all foreign relations

   True        False

5. Alexander the Great → Son of Philip II
   Became king at 20
   Faced with revolts in Greece - used harsh measures to establish control
   Created the largest empire the world had seen
   Fell ill in 323 BC and died at the age of 33

   True        False