Alexander The Great: Vocab Quiz Ch. 6-7

_____________ are extra people such as soldiers or police sent to provide help

• Hellens
• Retroactive
• Deserters
• Reinforcements

The ___________ river is the south-western of the two Mesopotamian rivers. The name means "that makes fruitful"

• Tigris
• Euphrates
• Nile
• Jordan

The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia was ______________.

• Alexandria
• Olympus
• Athens
• Babylon

______________ was a region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. It is now the country of Iraq.

• Babylon
• Athens
• Mesopotamia
• Olympus

An area of flat land along a sea or ocean is called a _________________.

• peninsula
• coastal plain
• cliff
• delta

An ______________ is someone or something that can predict the future

• oval
• oracle
• orient
• Issus

War _____________ were used as military weapons both for terror (scare soldiers into retreat) and effect.

• horses
• elephants
• camels
• lions

A ___________ is a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing.

• chariot
• chaperone
• pike
• carthage

_______________ are the things people own.

• regressions
• reinforcements
• oracles
• possessions

___________ means that someone has stopped fighting and admitted defeat.

• Rendered
• Delivered
• Surrendered
• Retained